Technology-Rich Transportation Engineering Projects

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2019

Fundamental research can play a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with growing global transportation energy use by enabling technologies that either significantly reduce the energy requirement of transportation or decouple vehicle energy use and emissions. Current research toward these ends is summarized, not including research areas outlined in other GCEP assessment reports with relevance to transportation such as hydrogen, combustion, and biomass. Reducing the energy requirement for transportation may be accomplished by reducing vehicle mass, smoothing the operational speed profile, and reducing viscous and contact friction. Specific technical challenges in these areas include the low-cost production of high-strength, low-weight materials and the technical foundation to enable automated vehicles. Fuel chains with low net greenhouse gas emissions include portable storage of low-carbon electricity and carbon-based fuels synthesized from low-carbon energy. Signific...

Journal of Transportation Engineering-asce, 2002

Transportation has been one of the essential areas within civil engineering since its early days. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of ASCE, this paper presents a review of developments in research, education, and practice in transportation engineering. The review is based primarily on the issues of the Journal of Transportation Engineering over the past several decades. Main topics include transportation engineering practice, airport and highway pavements and materials, design and safety, planning and operations, pipelines, technology, and education. Historical appraisals and the current state-of-the-art for these topics are discussed. In conclusion, future directions in transportation engineering as a result of advances in technology and the attendant changing need of the transportation engineering profession in the 21st century are addressed.

2017

This book includes the abstracts of all the papers presented at the 3rd Annual International Conference on Transportation, 5-8 June 2017, Athens, Greece organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). In total 36 papers were submitted by 40 presenters, coming from 17 different countries (Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and USA). The conference was organized into 14 sessions that included a variety of topic areas such as public transportation, innovations in transportation, engineering, and more. A full conference program can be found beginning on the next page. In accordance with ATINER’s Publication Policy, the papers presented during this conference will be

The TRB Annual Meeting is a large conference held each January in Washington DC. The programme covers all transportation modes and attracts policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academia. The Meeting draws attendees from throughout the United States and from 65 countries, and is probably the single largest annual gathering of transportation practitioners and researchers in the world with over 10,000 attendees. Each year there are over 3,000 presentations (including poster displays), almost 600 technical sessions and workshops and 200 committee and task force meetings.

2018

This book includes the abstracts of all the papers presented at the 4th Annual International Conference on Transportation (4-7 June 2018), organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 2016

2019

This book includes the abstracts of all the papers presented at the 5th Annual International Conference on Transportation (3-6 June 2019), organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).

International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies, 2012

Emerging technologies have been used as a complementary tool to solve different problems that modern society faces every day. One area where the emerging technologies have a big opportunity is transportation. As cities become larger, the number of vehicles and the need for transportation is growing quickly. In this sense, the modern society is facing more traffic congestion, higher fuel bills and the increase of CO2 emissions. It is imperative to improve and develop a sustainable transportation system that uses in a better way the existing infrastructure and that infrastructure have to be complemented with the application of emerging technologies. This work gives readers a global vision of traffic and transportation issues and how merging technologies contribute to solve transportation problems. In addition, it analyzes some of the emerging technologies and how each technology might be used to improve transportation systems. Finally, a classification of applications for transportati...

1999

This document is the culmination of the ninth offering of an innovative transportation engineering graduate course at Texas A&M University entitled, "Advanced Surface Transportation Systems". The ninth offering of the course was presented during the summer 1999 term. As part of the course, a Mentors Program provides students with unique learning experiences. Six top-level transportation professionals from private enterprise and departments of transportation, who are leaders in their field and who have extensive experience with Intelligent Transportation Systems, were invited to Texas A&M University to present a 1½-day Symposium on Advanced Surface Transportation Systems at the beginning of the summer term. Immediately following the Symposium, the students enrolled in the course participated in a Forum and a Workshop with the transportation professionals and course instructor. Each student had discussions with the transportation professionals and the course instructor to identify a topic area for a term paper. Based on mutual interests, each student was assigned to one of the professionals who served as a mentor (along with the course instructor) for the remainder of the summer term. Each student worked with his/her mentor and course instructor to identify a topic area and objectives for a term paper. In addition to discussions with the course instructor, the students (communicating via telephone, fax, email, and mail) worked directly with the mentors throughout the term while preparing their term papers. The mentors returned to the Texas A&M University campus near the end of the summer term to hear and critique the students' presentations.