Characterization and evaluation of a biological submerged filter was carried out on a full-scale pilot plant performing removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total nitrogen (TN) from pre-treated urban wastewater. The average influent values of BOD5, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and TN were 370, 1,015 and 60 mg/L, respectively. The pilot plant produced good discharge quality during stea...

This paper introduces a Travel Demand Management (TDM) model in order to decrease the transportation externalities by affecting on passengers’travel choices. Thus, a bi-objective bi-modal optimization model for road pricing is developed aiming to enhance environmental and social sustainability by considering to minimize the air pollution and maximize the social welfare as its objectives. This m...

1. Introduction Transport is a technology that aims to move people and goods from a point to another point. Transport modes such as railways, roads, and aviations are designed for carrying people and goods along a one-dimensional line. On the other hand, demand for transport spreads over two-dimensional areas, meaning that transport modes should configure network structure efficiently so as to ...

Emerging high speed networks give rise to new classes of applications like teleconferencing or video-on-demand which demand Quality of Service (QoS). To provide QoS support on an end-to-end basis, the demand of integrating network, transport, and operating system appears since applications compete for network access, processor time and QoS guarantees. This paper discusses QoS requirements to th...

The demand for fossil fuel in the transport sector is constantly increasing and transportation is ranked amongst the highest greenhouse emitting sectors globally. Today, tackling CO2 emissions from road transport a widely discussed topic and constitutes a milestone towards reaching a sustainable, carbon neutral economy. This challenge is being described in various initiatives adopted in the ...

Transportation is generally perceived as a catalyst for economic development. This has been highlighted in previous studies. However, less attention has been paid to examine the relationship between economy and transport demand by exploring spatially cross-sectional data, especially for countries with significant regional economic imbalance, like China. In this article, we assess the economic i...