In this paper, we examine basic transportation and land use characteristics from a selection of cities in Africa, China, Latin America, and South Asia. By definition, poorer than their industrialized country counterparts, developing cities are in a stage of rapid dynamism. From a mobility perspective, perhaps the single most influencing factor is motorization – the growth in motor vehicle owner...

1. Introduction Intermodalism has been increasing both in the world and Turkey due to the demand and supply side developments in transport industry. Turkey has great potential in terms of intermodal transportation owing to its privileged geographical position amid European, Central Asia and Middle Eastern countries. The trend in development patterns in the Mediterrenean, the Black Sea, The CIS ...

In this paper we describe the formal derivation of a transportation scheduling algorithm. The algorithm is based on the concepts of global search and constraint propagation and was originally derived using Kids (Kestrel Interactive Development System). The emphasis in this paper is on clarity of the overall derivation and on expressing concepts at a level of abstraction that permits signiicant ...

However, longer life, combined with vastly different personal expectations and social structures, presents far more issues than we have confronted in previous generations. Individuals, policy makers, and business must think beyond health and retirement to include all those services and supports that are the infrastructure of daily living. Examples include communications, housing, centers of lea...