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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,528 Views
20 Pages

Adoption of Micro-Mobility Solutions for Improving Environmental Sustainability: Comparison among Transportation Systems in Urban Contexts

  • Luca D’Acierno,
  • Matteo Tanzilli,
  • Chiara Tescione,
  • Luigi Pariota and ,
  • Luca Di Costanzo,
  • Salvatore Chiaradonna and
  • Marilisa Botte
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 June 2022

Sustainable transport frameworks are gaining attention within national and international transportation policies, given the key role that decarbonisation plays in making urban environments people-friendly. Within this context, several shared services...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Technology, Mobility, and Accessibility for Sustainable Regional and Urban Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,976 Views
26 Pages

12 May 2020

Energy-saving and energy-recovery strategies represent key factors to achieve operational cost reductions within rail systems’ management tasks. However, in altering service features, they also affect passenger satisfaction. This paper investig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 19th IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (19th IEEE EEEIC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,184 Views
16 Pages

Port Cooperation and Bundling: A Way to Reduce the External Costs of Hinterland Transport

  • Joost Hintjens,
  • Edwin van Hassel,
  • Thierry Vanelslander and
  • Eddy Van de Voorde

29 November 2020

The present paper studies the bundling of road cargo flows of neighbouring seaports to a common hinterland. In specific cases, some hinterland flows can be too small to make bundling in a sufficient frequency possible. By combining the road freight f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transport Systems for Sustainability: Policy, Planning and Exploitation)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
40 Citations
13,364 Views
13 Pages

24 January 2021

Understanding how upper-limb prostheses are used in daily life helps to improve the design and robustness of prosthesis control algorithms and prosthetic components. However, only a very small fraction of published research includes prosthesis use in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue On the Applications of EMG Sensors and Signals)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,068 Views
19 Pages

25 October 2019

High passenger and freight transport costs are a barrier to economic growth and social mobility, particularly in Low Income Countries (LICs). This paper considers the current state of knowledge regarding the barriers to achieving lower generalised tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable High Volume Road and Rail Transport in Low Income Countries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,021 Views
13 Pages

Leveraging Self-Attention Mechanism for Attitude Estimation in Smartphones

  • James Brotchie,
  • Wei Shao,
  • Wenchao Li and
  • Allison Kealy

21 November 2022

Inertial attitude estimation is a crucial component of many modern systems and applications. Attitude estimation from commercial-grade inertial sensors has been the subject of an abundance of research in recent years due to the proliferation of Inert...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Physical Sensors 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,602 Views
16 Pages

A Virtual Tour for the Promotion of Tourism of the City of Bari

  • Valerio De Luca,
  • Giorgia Marcantonio,
  • Maria Cristina Barba and
  • Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

13 July 2022

The use of information technology in the field of cultural heritage makes it possible to involve more and more people in the promotion of cultural heritage, fostering social, cultural, economic and community growth. This work stems from the interest...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue eXtended Reality for Social Inclusion and Educational Purpose)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,126 Views
18 Pages

Short-Term Forecasting of Total Aggregate Demand in Uncontrolled Residential Charging with Electric Vehicles Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Giovanni Panegossi Formaggio,
  • Mauro de Souza Tonelli-Neto,
  • Danieli Biagi Vilela and
  • Anna Diva Plasencia Lotufo

Electric vehicles are gaining attention and being adopted by new users every day. Their widespread use creates a new scenario and challenge for the energy system due to the high energy storage demands they generate. Forecasting these loads using arti...

(This article belongs to the Section Inventions and Innovation in Electrical Engineering/Energy/Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,746 Views
11 Pages

12 April 2021

Many end-users for the stormwater harvesting systems are reluctant in implementing the system due to uncertainties of the potential returns for their investment for such system. A common practice of presenting potential benefit of a certain investmen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Water Use)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
266 Views
29 Pages

9 October 2026

Accessible tourism is increasingly recognised as a condition of socially sustainable development, yet its documented provision does not necessarily enable its usability. This conceptual paper develops an Inclusive Tourism Sustainability Framework (IT...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive and Accessible Tourism: Strategies for Equitable Experiences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,679 Views
27 Pages

Adoption and Utilisation of Hidden Roof Construction in Ghanaian Urban Housing: A PLS-SEM Study

  • Haruna Domanamwin Abudu,
  • Murendeni Liphadzi,
  • Sherif Issahaque,
  • Stanley Owuotey Bonney and ,
  • Susan Dzifa Djokoto,
  • Kofi Owusu Adjei,
  • Francis Kwesi Bondinuba and
  • Cecilia Modupe Mewomo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2025

This study investigates the adoption and utilisation of hidden roof construction as an innovative alternative to traditional roofing systems in Ghana’s urban housing. Although hidden roofs offer advantages in climate adaptability, aesthetics, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Housing and Urban Planning: Enhancing Well-Being Through Environmental Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,403 Views
34 Pages

28 June 2021

This research draws attention to the potential and contextual influences on energy loss in Australia’s electricity market and smart grid systems. It further examines barriers in the transition toward optimising the benefit opportunities between elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,753 Views
20 Pages

A Roadmap to Integrate Digital Twins for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

  • Alim Yasin,
  • Toh Yen Pang,
  • Chi-Tsun Cheng and
  • Miro Miletic

12 October 2021

In the last decade, Australian SMEs are steadily becoming more digitally engaged, but they still face issues and barriers to fully adopt Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Among the tools that I4.0 encompasses, digital twin (DT) and digital thread (DTH) technologi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Industry 4.0 Advances in Industrial IoT and Visual Computing for Manufacturing Processes: Volume III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,675 Views
23 Pages

20 May 2025

Traffic congestions due to construction and maintenance works of road infrastructure cause travel delays, unpredictability and less tolerant road users. Bicyclists are more flexible with road closures, shifting to alternative routes, public transport...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,400 Views
35 Pages

31 October 2025

This study develops an integrated bi-level operations–assignment model to optimise express service on the Gyeongin Line, a core corridor connecting Seoul and Incheon. The upper level jointly selects express stops and time-of-day headways under...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)