Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has emerged as a cost-effective transport system for urban mobility. However its ability to stimulate land development remains largely unexplored. The study makes use of qualitative (interview method) and quantitative analysis (questionnaire survey and longitudinal analysis of property data) to investigate land development impact resulting from BRT in Beijing, China. The...

Additional energy source of hybrid electric buses comprises new control tasks. One of the main challenges of hybrid electric buses is the integrated control between traction motor and brakes, associated with which is the problem of switching traction motor and brakes. Existing control techniques only provide a result of frequent switch and jerky ride. In this paper, we propose a control strateg...

Many existing protocols indicate that full utilization and fairness might be incompatible in high-speed-high-latency MANs or LANs. The purpose of this paper is to study the fundamental limitations of dual bus networks, in terms of full utilization, fairness and bounded access delay. A new protocol called FUFA (fully utilized and fair) is used to demonstrate some of these basic properties. We de...

Approximately one-fifth of Perth’s population is aged 60 or older. Projections suggest that this proportion will continue to increase as a result of the large number of children born after the World War II (1946– 1964). Access to and accessibility around train stations for the aging population is and will become a more important issue as the elderly population continues to grow. The aim of the ...

A lot of information is interesting in a local context, e.g. the bus schedule of the local bus station or the location and opening hours of the closest supermarket. Therefore, location-aware access to information and services is an important feature of applications for mobile and ubiquitous devices. Most existing location-aware systems have been designed for certain applications, for example of...

For a number of years vehicle fleet tracking systems are in use in companies operating large number of vehicles in the field. Proliferation of cheap and compact GPS receivers had the effect that Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems today almost exclusively use satellite based locating systems. This paper presents characteristics of realized city bus transit traffic in the city of Niš. Since...

Received signal strength-based positioning and tracking of humans is a reliable solution for harsh indoor environments like the longwall tunnels at underground coal mining sites. The mining personnel with radio tags on their body can be tracked along a line of sensing reference nodes. The wired bus backbone for the transmission of all sensor data to a central processing station is the limiting ...

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In this paper, a queueing system is formulated, analyzed and applied for the study of the queueing behavior of a DQDB station. At rst, an appropriate process is deened to capture the station's perception of the state of the distributed global queue (DQDB network) and a queueing model is formulated. In the sequel, a general queueing system is considered; the packet service time requirement is as...

The most important operating problem for intercity rail lines, which are characterized with the train operations at rapid speed and high frequency, is to design a service-oriented schedule with the minimum cost. This paper proposes a phase-regular scheduling method which divides a day equally into several time blocks and applies a regular train-departing interval and the same train length for e...