Care about the environment is one of the key issues faced by engineers. Among the solutions conducive for reducing CO2 and NOx emissions from road transport is the introduction of electric cars. At the same time, it requires taking care of the infras...
With the enrichment of GNSS data and the improvement in data processing accuracy, GNSS technology has been widely applied in fields such as crustal deformation. The Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC) has provided decades of Global...
Taxis play a crucial role as an on-demand transportation mode in developing countries due to perceived inefficiencies of cities’ public transportation systems. However, studies on the locational distribution of taxis in urban areas are limited,...
Railway industry plays a critical role in transportation and transit systems attributed to the ever-growing demand for catering to both freight and passengers. However, owing to many challenges faced by railway stations such as harsh environments, tr...
We principally focus on evaluating the local and entire network performance of railway stations for sustainable logistics management in South Korea. Specifically, we aim to address the issue of dealing with vulnerability in logistics dependent on the...
Given the continuous optimisation of the energy structure, the proportion of natural gas consumption in China increases annually, the urban gas pipeline network continues to extend outward, and the supply range continues to expand. Although an increa...
This study investigates sewage treatment technologies at manned and unmanned converter stations and pumped storage power stations across various regions of China, considering the regional differences in water availability, infrastructure, and ecologi...
Buildings have significant impacts on the environment throughout their life cycle in terms of energy and water consumption, material usage, and waste generation. This study aims to evaluate the Sivas Train Station and Sivas High-Speed Train Station b...
With the impact of fossil energy on the climate environment and the development of energy technologies, new energy vehicles, represented by electric cars, have begun to receive increasing attention and emphasis. The rapid proliferation of public char...
The major factors affecting the popularization of electric vehicles (EV) are the limited travel range and the lack of charging infrastructure. Therefore, to further promote the penetration of EVs, it is of great importance to plan and construct more...
In order to remedy the inadequacy of the sources of differential corrections in current automatic identification system (AIS) and to improve the positioning accuracy of AIS mobile stations using single-point positioning, a differential correction app...
Busy, complex railway stations that serve as origin and termination points for a significant proportion of trains are essential to regional railway networks. Resolving conflicts between arrival–departure operations and shunting operations of cr...
Multi-station integration is motivated by the requirements of distributed energies interconnection and improvements in the efficiency of energy systems. Due to the diversity of communication services and the complexity of data exchanges between in-of...
Rural peripheral regional rail stations are important access points within everyday travel chains, yet their on-site facilities are often limited. This study examines the perceived importance of station facilities and related attributes and investiga...
Weather is a key factor affecting electricity demand. Many load forecasting models rely on weather variables. Weather stations provide point measurements of weather conditions in a service area. Since the load is spread geographically, a single weath...
To expedite the development of the infrastructural expansion for hydrogen applications, the research project “THEWA” was founded. Within this project, the development of hydrogen-refueling stations is being advanced so that the hydrogen s...
While transit-oriented development (TOD) has been widely adopted in urban design alongside the expansion of urban metro transit, the creation of pedestrian-friendly environments has often been overlooked during implementation. This has resulted in a...
A possible solution with which to alleviate the range anxiety of electric vehicle (EV) drivers could be a mobile charging station which moves in different places to charge EVs, having a charging time of even half an hour. A problem that arises is the...
Bikeshare systems usually relocate bikes to respond to a mismatch between demand and bike supply, imposing substantial costs to operators despite the effort to encourage users to participate in voluntary rebalancing. This study initiates a search for...
This paper presents the formulation of a train formation problem in rail loading stations (TFLS) from the systematic perspective. Several patterns of train formation are analyzed thoroughly before modeling, including direct single-commodity trains, d...
This paper proposes an electric vehicle routing problem, considers the states of charging stations and suggests solution strategies. The charging of electric vehicles is a main issue in the field of electric vehicle routing. There are many studies th...
Among the micro-logistic transport systems, railway stations should be highlighted, such as one of the most important transport infrastructure elements. The efficiency of the transport industry as a whole depends on the quality of their operation. Su...
This paper focuses on the efficiency evaluation of bike-sharing systems (BSSs) and develops an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to support the decisions regarding the performance evaluation of BSS stations. The proposed methodology i...
Recently, the operation of electric charging stations has stopped being solely dependent on the state or centralised energy companies, instead depending on the decentralization of decisions made by the operators of these stations, whose goals are to...
There is always a need to extract more accurate regional common mode component (CMC) series from coordinate time series of Global Positioning System (GPS) stations, which would be of great benefit to describe the deformation features of the Earth&rsq...
Within transport systems, train stations cover a primary role as places where access to different modes of transport must be realised effectively, providing a valuable opportunity to make rail services, public transport, and soft mobility more attrac...
The harsh scientific research environment of Antarctic stations demands a reliable energy supply; however, traditional methods not only pose a challenge in supply but also harm the environment. Antarctic energy supply has become a new choice for ener...
The energy distribution between several charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) is considered. An optimization problem is defined that aims to minimize the service time for EV charging. The charging sequence is evaluated and determined in view...
The pumping station is a very important hydraulic system in urban water supplies because the pumps raise the water head, ensuring the minimum pressure required in drinking water systems. In the design of a pumping station, one of the most important c...
As a critical transportation infrastructure, with a high flow of people and high-energy consumption in China, coach stations have great potential in energy saving and CO2 emission reduction. In this paper, the building information and energy consumpt...
Digital twin (DT) or so-called ‘building information model (BIM)’ has brought great revolution to the current building industry. Its applications to life cycle management of buildings and infrastructures can further increase the social an...
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Urban fires threaten the economic stability and safety of urban residents. Therefore, the limited number of fire stations should cover as many places as possible. Moreover, places with high fire risk should be covered by more fire stations. To optimi...
This paper proposes algorithms for optimal placement of base stations (BSs) and central stations (CSs) in mining quarries to ensure reliable radio communication for automated machinery. The BS placement is modeled as a minimum dominating set problem,...
The ridership of a metro station during a city’s peak hour is not always the same as that during the station’s own peak hour. To investigate this inconsistency, this study introduces the peak deviation coefficient to describe this phenome...
The distribution of passengers reflects the characteristics of urban rail stations. The automatic fare collection system of rail transit collects a large amount of passenger trajectory data tracking the entry and exit continuously, which provides a b...
Fuel station accidents still happen frequently all around the world. Accidents in fuel stations may cause harm to many. Fuel station environments must thus be managed well to maintain a high safety climate level. However, our literature review shows...
Exploring passengers’ consumption motivation can provide the basis for arranging commercial activities in high-speed rail (HSR) stations to generate more revenue for operations. This study uses a mixed multiple-attribute decision-making model f...
The atmospheric electric field is an important physical parameter used to study the state of charge density distribution between the earth and the ionosphere, and its daily variation characteristics reflect the underlying atmospheric electrical prope...
Accidents in gas stations may cause injury or even death to people. Moreover, an accident in a gas station might halt its operation for some time. When an accident takes place in a region with scant amount of gas stations, it may lead to fuel scarcit...
Aiming at frequency fluctuations caused by high-penetration renewable energy, a coordinated secondary frequency regulation strategy is proposed for hybrid energy storage stations in regional power grid. Hybrid energy storage stations contain electroc...
Electric vehicles (EVs) have attracted considerable attention because of their clean and high-energy efficiency. Reasonably planning a charging station network has become a vital issue for the popularization of EVs. Current research on optimizing cha...
Recent studies have shown that gender is the personal aspect that mostly affects mobility patterns and travel behaviors. It has been observed, for instance, that female perception of unsafety and insecurity when traveling using public transport force...
Firefighters are known to be exposed to a variety of hazardous materials and combustion products during operational and training activities, as well as in fire stations. However, exposure to diesel exhaust emissions, classified as carcinogenic to hum...
As an indispensable type of information, location data are used in various industries. Ultrawideband (UWB) technology has been used for indoor location estimation due to its excellent ranging performance. However, the accuracy of the location estimat...
In this work, we develop a detailed analysis of the current outlook for electric vehicle charging technology, focusing on the various levels and types of charging protocols and connectors used. We propose a charging station for electric cars powered...
The fast frequency response (FFR) function in renewable energy source (RES)-based power stations has proved to be able to improve the frequency stability of power systems with high RES penetration significantly. However, most current FFR functions in...
This paper presents an analysis of the results determining the positions and the velocities of the 21 selected satellite laser ranging stations which performed observations from January 2008 to December 2012. This particularly interesting period of f...
To design a more suitable scheme under different conditions so that subway stations can play their role better, this study investigated the construction elements of subway stations in residential areas. Metro stations in residential areas are general...
Many studies have investigated the influence of hydropower stations on macroinvertebrate communities, but few have clarified the influence of different types of hydropower stations. A total of 133 samples obtained from seven rivers, on which 45 hydro...
The effect of the number and configuration of participating stations on lightning location outside the network is herein studied by evaluating the deviation distance between the reference location and the locations determined by the ToA technique, us...
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