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Extensive urban and metropolitan development over the past decades has resulted in the need to better move goods and people over the nation's motorways. However, physical limitations in motorway infrastructure and inefficient use of existing infrastructure have caused considerable [...]

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Introduction"br /" "br /" Risk management in enterprises, organisations and companies has had a long and complicated history. "br /" During the eighties, and at least during the beginning of the nineties, the notion concerning risk management was that if an accident happened in an [...]

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The concept of resilience can be realized in natural and engineering systems, representing the ability of system to adapt and recover from various disturbances. Although resilience is a critical property needed for understanding and managing the risks and collapses of transportation [...]

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transport is a key infrastructure of modern societies. In this paper we review some recent approaches to air transport, which make extensive use of theory of complex networks. We discuss possible networks that can be defined for the air transport and we focus our attention to networks [...]

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Modern society is facing great challenges due to pollution and increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. As part of solving these challenges, the use of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles (EVs) is rapidly increasing. However, increased dynamics have triggered problems [...]

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In this contribution, we study the properties of new promising graphenebased materials with shape memory effects. While traditional shape memory alloys have been extensively studied, it is a challenge to preserve shape memory properties at the nanoscale. As a result, new materials [...]

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fter the emergence of the H1N1 influenza in 2009, some countries responded with travel-related controls during the early stage of the outbreak in an attempt to contain or slow down its international spread. These controls along with self-imposed travel limitations contributed to a [...]