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Part 2: Performance and Simulation Analysis; International audience; Nowadays, network planning and management tasks can be of high complexity, given the numerous inputs that [...]
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Todayâs air traffic management system is not expected to scale to the projected increase in traffic over the next two decades. Enhancing collaboration between the controllers [...]
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Traditional traffic measurements meter throughput on time scales in the order of 5 minutes, e.g., using the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) tool. The time scale on which [...]
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Public transport is one of the key promoters of sustainable transport. To encourage and increase public transport patronage it is important to investigate the route choice [...]
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Part 2: eEnvironment and Cross-Border Services in Digital Agenda for Europe; International audience; We investigate the potential role Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) [...]
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The response to a potential disaster can require the evacuation of personnel from a specified area. Generally, such efforts are restricted to the orderly mass departure of [...]
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Transportation agencies such as state departments of transportation often struggle to understand, measure, and apply sustainability concepts in their core activities. This [...]
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The legacy DSB-AM (Double Sideband Amplitude Modulation) system used for todayâs voice communication in the VHF-band is far away of meeting the demands of increasing [...]
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The current case examines the management strategies of a leading furniture company that started off as a small business and rapidly expanded globally. The success the company [...]
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Several industry, home, or automotive applications need 3D or at least range data of the observed environment to operate. Such applications are, e.g., driver assistance systems, [...]
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Urban sprawl combined with low density development causes unsustainable development patterns including accessibility and mobility problems, especially for those who do not [...]
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Current developments in Car2X communication technology provide the basis for novel driver assistance systems. To assess the impact of such a system on a group of cars approaching [...]
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Cape Verde stands out in West Africa as a country whose economic geography poses major and unique challenges for infrastructure development. Its small population of half a [...]
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Gas transmission pipelines are often inspected and monitored using the magnetic flux leakage method [1]. An inspection vehicle known as a âpigâ is launched into [...]
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This paper investigates various options for the organization of the railway industry when network operators require the access to multiple national networks to provide international [...]
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Nondestructive evaluation methods are largely used for inspection of storage tanks and pipelines in the oil industry. The main goal is to detect and locate points of corrosion [...]
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Many mechanical stress situations in which NDE might be performed are biaxial in character. Examples are gas and oil pipelines, power plant steam pipes, railroad wheels, and [...]
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The Supply Chain Management (SCM) can be defined as the set of proposals used to efficiently integrate suppliers, manufacturers and warehouses, such that the product is produced [...]
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Natural gas, which is one of the nationâs cheapest forms of energy, is transported to consumer sites via a vast transmission pipeline network .Safety considerations and [...]
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A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is also known as a vehicular sensor network [Zhang, Lu, Lin, Ho & Shen (2008)] by which driving safety is enhanced through inter-vehicle [...]
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Transit oriented developments are high density mixed use developments located within short and easily walkable distance of a major transit centre. These developments are often [...]
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As traffic volumes and congestion grows on highways and urban roadways, freight and delivery service operators become increasingly challenged to maintain dependable and reliable [...]
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Part 2: Long and Short Papers; International audience; In this paper we describe the application of a variation of cultural probing for identifying barriers in the use of [...]
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Mobility of persons and goods is a crucial component of the competitiveness of the economy; mobility is also an essential citizen right. Effective transportation systems are [...]
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During the last ten years, the nation has become increasingly aware of the potential for environmental damage from leaks in underground and aboveground storage tanks, and [...]
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Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are divided into intelligent infrastructure systems and intelligent vehicle systems. Intelligent vehicle systems are typically classified [...]
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Improving travel time reliability is an emerging business activity for transportation agencies in the United States. To improve the reliability of travel times on their roadway [...]
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Corrosion and pitting defects in pipework are major problems in the oil, chemical and other industries. These defects can occur at the outer or inner surface of the pipe and [...]
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This research reportâa product of the Reliability focus area of the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2)âpresents findings on the feasibility of using [...]
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Since the first pieces of software have been introduced into automobiles in 1976, the complexity of automotive software systems is growing rapidly. Today automotive software [...]
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Studies have estimated that irregular operations (flights affected by a disruption) can cost between 2% and 3% of the airline annual revenue and that a better recovery process [...]
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Over the past two decades, the air transport industry has experienced continuous growth. The demand for passenger air traffic is forecast to double the current level by about [...]
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The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/HMI) provides continuous full-disk observations of solar oscillations. We develop a data-analysis [...]
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In an age when escalating fuel prices, global warming and world resource depletion are of great concern, sustainable transport practices promise to define a new way of mobility [...]
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It is estimated that there are about one million kilometers of gas and liquid transmission pipelines operating across the globe today. Pipelines, owing to their strategic [...]
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Condensate gas is mainly demonstrated by methane. However, it also contains a lot of heavier contents like C5 or C5+ and some non-hydrocarbon mixture as well (Mokhatab et [...]
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The paper reports the development and application of a SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) based simulation of rapid filling of pipelines, for which the rigid-column model [...]
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This report contains the main contribution of CNRS-LET to the FREILOT project. It is organized in 4 main parts: the first presents the methodological contributions to the [...]
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The Salt Disposition Integration (SDI) portfolio of projects provides the infrastructure within existing Liquid Waste facilities to support the startup and long term operation [...]
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Climate change and CO2 emissions is an important issue on the agenda of many politicians. Trying to decrease CO2 emissions, influences transportation, power production, etc. [...]
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Air traffic in Europe is expected to double by 2025 according to the last forecast of EUROCONTROL, with an average growth of 2.7%-3.7% per year. On a worldwide basis, the [...]
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The main focus of the social protection and labor portfolio is on strengthening client's institutional capacity in the design and implementation of programs, but projects [...]
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The objective of traffic engineering (TE) is to optimize network resources, while satisfying traffic-oriented performance requirements. As a technology for TE, we focus on [...]
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Upgrading infrastructure plays a critical role in the Republic of Congo's quest to diversify its economy and reduce poverty. It is also an important source of growth on its [...]
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Conducting experiments and documenting results is daily business of scientists. Good and traceable documentation enables other scientists to confirm procedures and results [...]
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Between 2000 and 2005 infrastructure made a net contribution of only 0.3 percentage points to the improved per capita growth performance of Niger, one of the lowest in Sub-Saharan [...]
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This chapter describes how the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) defines a hazardous material as any substance or material capable of causing harm to people, property, [...]
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For several years, the promotion of intermodal transport has been a priority for the Spanish and European authorities (Cuerda et al., 2003; Conseil National des Transports [...]
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Part 3: Resource Allocation; International audience; There has long been a need for a robust and reliable system which distributes traffic across multiple paths. In particular [...]
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An emulsion layer is a mixture of two or more liquids in which one of them the dispersed phase, is present as droplets of microscopic size, distributed throughout the other, [...]
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Institutional features of the African setting -- large extended families and imperfect credit and land markets -- matter to the equity and efficiency roles played by intergenerational [...]
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Part 4: Energy Efficiency International audience We study the Stochastic Traffic Engineering (STE) problem arising from the support of QoS-demanding live (e.g., real time) [...]
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A novel approach to efficiently plan and execute effective transport solutions is presented. It provides agent-based support for key tasks, such as, finding the best sequence [...]
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This report is based on a survey among Expats in North Denmark, and was carried out in collaboration with 'Velkomstcentre - live and work in North Denmark'. It includes findings [...]
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Currently, large physics simulations produce 3D discretized field data whose individual isosurfaces, after conventional extraction processes, contain upwards of hundreds of [...]
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Infrastructure has contributed significantly to the growth of West African economies during the past decade. In Sierra Leone, infrastructure added only around 0.51 percentage [...]
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This chapter describes RESCUE (Requirements Engineering with Scenarios for a User-centred Environment), a method for specifying requirements for complex sociotechnical systems [...]
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Infrastructure has made a net contribution of around one percentage point to Nigeria's improved per capita growth performance in recent years, in spite of the fact that unreliable [...]
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This chapter highlights some of the innovative approaches that have been taken by businesses involved in reverse logistics for the removal of waste from urban areas. The chapter [...]
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Between 2000 and 2005 infrastructure made an important contribution of 1.6 percentage point to Benin's improved per capita growth performance, which was the highest among [...]
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This paper presents a real-time emotion recognition concept of voice streams. A comprehensive solution based on Bayesian Quadratic Discriminate Classifier(QDC) is developed. [...]
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Exploration and analysis of vast empirical data is a cornerstone of the development and assessment of driver assistance systems. A common challenge is to apply the domain [...]
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This report presents available evidence on adult education and training in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), differentiating two separate types: continuing vocational education [...]
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Infrastructure contributed 1.2 percentage points to the annual per capita growth of Malawi's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past decade, thanks mainly to the revolution [...]
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This paper is an annual publication issued by the Microeconomic Analysis service of the National Bank of Belgium. The Flemish maritime ports (Antwerp, Ghent, Oostende, Zeebrugge), [...]
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The complete specification of interactive applications is now increasingly considered a requirement in the field of software for safety-critical systems due to their use as [...]