Most U.S. energy usage is for electricity production and vehicle transportation, two interdependent infrastructures. The strength and number of the interdependencies will increase rapidly as hybrid electric transportation systems, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and hybrid electric trains, become more prominent. There are several new energy supply technologies reaching maturity, acce...

This research aims at optimizing the production and transportation scheduling components at an automotive company. In particular, the transportation time, cost, as well as the capacity constraint constitute elements of vital significance in the decision making process. As found in a research conducted in Iran’s management and planning organization, an estimated 30% of all price increases was as...

BACKGROUND Watching television and playing video games increase energy intake, likely due to distraction from satiety cues. A study comparing one hour of watching TV, playing typical video games, or playing motion-controlled video games found a difference across groups in energy intake, but the reasons for this difference are not clear. As a secondary analysis, we investigated several types of ...

2 Introduction Metro has developed a regional econometric model (MARIO), a residential real estate model (RELM), a nonresidential real estate model and a transportation model. We have embedded the four models in a GIS based accounting and visualization tool that we call Metroscope. In regard to Metro's model development this paper discusses the reasons that Metro engages in modeling, shows how ...

safety is one of the life necessities and fundamental human rights and it is a prerequisite for improvement of people welfare and health. safety improvement is in a direct relationship with mental calmness and also with senses of places to life environment. although the importance of safety factors for everybody, researches show that sensitivity or safety level for some kinds of age and sex gro...

With increasing urbanization in China, many cities are facing serious environmental problems due to continuous and substantial increase in automobile transportation. It is becoming imperative to examine effective ways to reduce individual automobile use to facilitate sustainable transportation behavior. Empirical, theory-based research on sustainable transportation in China is limited. In this ...

BACKGROUND Prevention and reduction of disability among community-dwelling older adults have been an important health policy concern in Japan. Moreover, it has also become a gendered issue due to the recent rapid growth in older females than males with disability living in their own homes. The aim of this study is to examine whether there is a gender difference in the use of community rehabilit...

In the coming years, transportation system will be revamped in a manner that there will be more intellig ent and autonomous vehicle phenomenon around us s uch as smart cars, auto driving system, etc. Some of a utomotive industries are already producing smart cars . However, the main concern of this paper is on the in frastructure for connected vehicles, which can suppor t such intelligent trans...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between income, energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Malaysia using time-series data during 1975 to 2011. This study also attempts to validate the environmental Kuznet curve (EKC) hypothesis. Applying a multivariate model of income, energy consumption in the transportation sector, carbon emissions, structural change in the economy and ren...

In this paper some research questions which potentially lie within the purview of the new discipline of Computational Transportation Science are presented. Some of these questions are no doubt old and jaded and some may rightly reside in a different research field (or be seen as engineering) but viable solutions to all of the issues presented are of vital importance to the efficacy of future tr...