Designing arrival routes in terminal airspace requires deciding how inbound streams should be grouped and where the resulting merge points should be placed. This paper searches convergence topology, merge-point positions and population-aware path dec...
There usually exist a few big customers at ports of near-sea container shipping routes who have preferences on the weekly ship arrival times due to their own production and sale schedules. Therefore, in practice, when designing ship schedules, carrie...
The bottleneck of today’s airspace is the Terminal Maneuvering Areas (TMA), where aircraft leave their routes to descend to an airport or take off and reach the en-route sector. To avoid congestion in these areas, an efficient design of departu...
Software defined network (SDN) is a new network architecture in which the control function is decoupled from the data forwarding plane, that is attracting wide attentions from both research and industry sectors. However, SDN still faces the energy wa...
The advancement of Arrival MANager (AMAN) is crucial for addressing the increasing complexity and demand of modern airspace. This study evaluates the operational feasibility and effectiveness of an innovative AMAN designed for en route airspace, the...
This study aims to evaluate whether context-dependent prediction and an explicit arrival-reserve chance constraint improve the reliability of battery electric vehicle (BEV) route decisions. The framework combines a physics-based energy backbone, grou...
In this paper, we employ a target-oriented approach to analyze the multi-attribute route choice decision of travelers in the stochastic tolled traffic network, considering the influence of three attributes, which are (stochastic) travel time, (stocha...
UAVs will present significant air traffic in the urban airspace in the future, which brings new challenges to urban air traffic management and control. This paper presents an air route design scheme for multi-rotor UAVs in urban airspace to enable UA...
Bus transportation system has become the primary mode of traffic for urban residents. Every day, thousands of buses provide services for millions of passengers. Efficiently monitoring bus trajectories is essential for evaluating service quality and e...
4-Amino-imidazo-, oxazolo-, and thiazoloquinolines are key structural scaffolds in the design of nucleoside base analogs for use as therapeutic agents. Current strategies for arriving at diverse substitutions at the C6–C9 positions of the thiaz...
Route game is recognized as an effective method to alleviate Braess’ paradox, which generates a new traffic congestion since numerous vehicles obey the same guidance from the selfish route guidance (such as Google Maps). The conventional route...
We propose a hub ridesharing method that considers path similarity to swiftly evacuate high volumes of passengers arriving at a high-speed railway hub. The technique aims to minimize total mileage and the number of service vehicles, considering the c...
The benchmarking of CO2 emissions serves as the foundation for the accurate assessment of the environmental impact of air traffic. To calculate the environmental benchmarks of arrival traffic flows with Point Merge System (PMS) patterns, this study p...
With the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, the intensive take-offs and landings of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performing logistics transport tasks in urban areas have introduced significant safety risks. To reduce the likelihood of...
An underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is an emerging technology for environmental monitoring and surveillance. One of the side effects of the low propagation speed of acoustic waves is that routing protocols of terrestrial wireless networks...
Helicopters and vehicles are often jointly used to transport key relief supplies and respond to disaster situations when supply nodes are far away from demand nodes or the key roads to affected areas are cut off. Emergency transfer centers (ETCs) are...
The current study explores the problem of illiquidity in the corporate bond market globally and proposes a solution to enhance liquidity by studying various dimensions of liquidity. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution to the g...
In this paper, we design and experiment ODYSSE (Opportunistic Duty cYcle based routing protocol for wirelesS Sensor nEtworks) protocol. It combines three main mechanisms: (i) duty cycle, where nodes alternate between active and sleep states, (ii) opp...
To address the challenges of carbon emission reduction in the global shipping industry and the requirements of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) rating, this paper takes China’s commuter ship...
The characteristics of railway dangerous goods accidents are very complex. The rescue of railway dangerous goods accidents should consider the timeliness of rescue, the uncertainty of traffic environment and the diversity of rescue resources. Thus, t...
Accurate prediction of bus arrival time is critical to improving transit service reliability and scheduling efficiency. The estimated time of arrival (ETA) is jointly determined by two processes, namely inter-station travel and station dwell, which a...
Network packets may arrive out of their original order due to network delays, transmission speed variations, congestion, or uneven resource distribution. These factors cause significant challenges to network performance. These challenges result in ji...
Intermodal logistics service providers decide on the routing of demand through their service network. Long-haul routing decisions determine the selected departure and arrival terminals for containers and imply corresponding drayage tasks. Traditional...
Cooperative routing, combining cooperative communication in the physical layer and routing technology in the network layer, is one of the most widely used technologies for improving end-to-end transmission reliability and delay in the wireless multi-...
Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) has been recognized as an effective way to significantly reduce fuel burn and noise impact. Designing efficient and flexible arrival routes for generating conflict-free and economical trajectories is a cornerstone...
Preamble sampling-based MAC protocols designed forWireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are aimed at prolonging the lifetime of the nodes by scheduling their times of activity. This scheduling exploits node synchronization to find the right trade-off betwee...
Background: We consider a variant of the traveling salesperson problem motivated by the case of a company delivering furniture. The problem is both dynamic, due to random arrivals of delivery requests, and multiperiod, due to flexibility in deliverin...
Signal interpretation in embedded ultrasonic monitoring depends strongly on the internal transmission path of the sensing element, yet this design factor has received limited systematic attention. This work compares two triangular quartz sensors that...
To address the technical challenges of implementing Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) in high-traffic-density terminal control areas, we propose a cooperative low-carbon trajectory planning method for multiple arriving aircraft. Firstly, this study...
The terminal maneuvering area (TMA) serves as a critical transition zone between upper enroute airways and airports, representing one of the most complex regions for managing high volumes of arrival and departure traffic. This paper presents the mult...
This article presents an original method for minimising the energy expenditure of electric vehicles used in municipal service undertakings, taking into account the uncertainty in the functioning of their charging points. The uncertainty of the chargi...
Efficient energy utilization and network life prolongation are primary objectives to be considered when designing a Wireless Sensor Network. Cluster-based routing protocols are most suitable for achieving such goals. Energy and Optimal Inter Cluster...
Background: The dynamic vehicle routing problem (DVRP) is a complex optimization problem that is crucial for applications such as last-mile delivery. Our goal is to develop an application that can make real-time decisions to maximize total performanc...
Elevators exemplify mechatronics by integrating mechanical, electrical, and software systems. This paper discusses a four-story tabletop elevator model developed to demonstrate mechatronics and automation concepts in engineering education. The system...
While the arrival of sargassum on the coasts of the Mexican Caribbean represents a threat to the population and the environment, its valorization into high-value-added products represents an opportunity from a circular economy perspective. This paper...
Despite the large amount of successful existing methods and frameworks for planning sets of multiple unmanned aerial systems (UASs), there is still a lack of coordination frameworks that are capable of coping with real-world operational conditions. T...
Ballast water is one of the main vectors of transport of nuisance species among marine ports. Neither treatment nor interchange completely reduces the risk of ballast water containing DNA from harmful species, being a signal of potential threat. Howe...
Fruit maturity is an essential factor for fresh retailers to make economical distribution scheduling and scientific market strategies. In the context of farm-to-door mode, the fresh retailers could incorporate the postharvest maturity time, picking t...
Parking in heavily populated areas has been considered one of the main challenges in the transportation systems for the past two decades given the limited parking resources, especially in city centres. Drivers often waste long periods of time hunting...
The integration of truck platooning and electrification presents a promising avenue for improving operational efficiency and environmental sustainability in freight transportation. Realizing the energy and cost saving as well as emission reduction be...
Geopolitical disruptions at maritime chokepoints cascade through interconnected economic systems, yet the pathways along which such shocks travel and the nodes at which they are absorbed remain poorly understood. The aim of this study is to trace, wi...
In the shipping network optimization, the feeder liner companies not only need to decrease the operation cost by comprehensively optimizing the route, schedule, and fleet but also try to increase the operation income by attracting more shippers, with...
The formation control technology of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is a current research hotspot, and formation switching and formation obstacle avoidance are vital technologies. Aiming at the problem of formation control of fixed-wing UAVs...
Battery-powered automatic guided vehicles (B-AGVs) serve as crucial horizontal transportation equipment in terminals and significantly impact the terminal transportation efficiency. Imbalanced B-AGV availability during terminal peak and off-peak peri...
The future of transportation systems is going towards autonomous and assisted driving, aiming to reach full automation. There is huge focus on communication technologies expected to offer vehicular application services, of which most are location-bas...
Elastic optical networks (EONs) can make service accommodation more flexible and precise by employing efficient routing and spectrum allocation (RSA) algorithms. In order to improve the efficiency of RSA algorithms, the advanced-reservation technique...
The emergence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) introduces new opportunities for the design of intelligent and flexible transportation systems beyond traditional road-based logistics. This study investigates the integration of UAVs as an alternative...
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Being aware of global pandemics, this research focused on the potential infection routes in building drainage systems. Case studies have found that dysfunctional building drainage systems not only failed to block contaminants but also potentially bec...
This paper examines visitors’ movement patterns at the Broad Museum designed by Zaha Hadid. Characterized with free, open, and generally unbound spaces, visitors explore a curated exhibition at their own pace, route, and agenda. Unlike most oth...
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a viable solution for data collection from remote Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, the successful implementation in this regard necessitates the development of a reliable and en...
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