BACKGROUND Identifying ongoing tuberculosis infection sites is crucial for breaking chains of transmission in tuberculosis-prevalent urban areas. Previous studies have pointed out that detection of local accumulation of tuberculosis patients based on their residential addresses may be limited by a lack of matching between residences and tuberculosis infection sites. This study aimed to identify...

Customer-owned battery energy storage systems (BESS) have been used to reduce electricity costs of energy storage owners (ESOs) under a time-of-use (TOU) tariff in Korea. However, the current TOU tariff can unintentionally induce customer’s electricity usage to have a negative impact on power systems. This paper verifies the impact of different BESS operation strategies on power systems under a...

Transport and mobility in cities are important factors the sustainability of urbanized world. This article investigates one type intra-urban transport: railway transport surrounding areas along railway, i.e., whether corridors can be a factor sustainable development 21st century. The aim is to determine specific characteristics identify problems cultural-historical specifics related industrial ...

Recently, according to growth and concentration of population in urban area, congested situations at several railway stations in rush hour become a serious social issue. Therefore, designing the station more comfortably for the passengers has been desired. In other words, in order to mitigate the congested situations, a method measuring crowds flow characteristics should be developed. In this p...

s light rail transit (LRT) systems mature and expand, outlying passengers are faced with increasingly longer trip times to reach the urban core. Providing service to these customers by conventional means can be disproportionately expensive for the transit carrier in terms of operating and capital expense. Innovative operational practices to expedite train movements, however, are often confounde...

In this paper we present the results of an empirical study investigating the performance of TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) in a Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) for safety related railway traffic applications. The Short Data Service (SDS) of TETRA in the Direct Mode Operation (DMO) allows an infrastructure-less exchange of traffic relevant information between vehicles in range of the communi...