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Micro-cogeneration is a developed technology aiming to produce electricity and heat close to the final users, with the potential, if designed and operated correctly, to reduce [...]

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What defines an autonomous vehicle? In this chapter the authors will try to answer this question and formulate the limitations of driver assistance systems as well as for—conditionally—autonomous [...]

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Daily mobility patterns in highly populated urban environments rely on a well-functioning effective road network. Nevertheless, traffic bottlenecks are typical for urban environments [...]

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Today, managing critical infrastructure resilience in smart city is a challenge that can be undertaken by adopting a new class of smart tools, which are able to integrate [...]

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In recent years, the growing prevalence of social networks makes it possible to utilize human users as sensors to inspect city environment and human activities. Consequently, [...]

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For portable electronic devices (PEDs), e.g. smartphones or tablets, near field communication (NFC) enables easy and convenient man-machine interaction by simply tapping a [...]

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Distributed data processing systems are the standard means for large-scale data analysis in the Big Data field. These systems are based on processing pipelines where the processing [...]

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25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) -- MAY 15-18, 2017 -- Antalya, TURKEY WOS: 000413813100202 In this study, an efficient modified SPIHT [...]

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This paper deals with a procedure capable to build the scenario tree associated with a parking lot equipped with several bidirectional charging stations for plug-in electric [...]

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The focus of this paper is on the implementation and subsequent improvement of a technique for computing AC interference on buried metallic pipelines due to nearby power transmission [...]

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Paper presented at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), held in Baltimore, MD, USA, on 28-31 May 2017. We present a simple circuit to handle [...]

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Determining the amount of air traffic in an area can help to identify the traffic demands of current and future airborne communication systems. Many mobility models for pedestrians [...]

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In this paper we present a low-cost infrastructure to collect a variety of location-based multi-sourced data with the aim of providing personalized services and raising awareness [...]

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The main goal of this paper is to investigate the performance of an algorithm for point extraction from hyperbolic reflections in synthetic and real Ground-Penetrating Radar [...]

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There has been little research towards the characteristics of Dutch electric vehicle (EV) drivers. This paper describes the result of focus groups and a survey with 286 respondents. [...]

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Carbon footprint assessment due to airport operations is often required by environmental regulations. Aircraft contribute to local air pollution during the Landing and Take [...]

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From a European, regional and local perspective, as well as from the point of view of port authorities, it is important that waterborne transport should be sustainable. In [...]

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Face-to-face proximity has been successfully leveraged to study the relationships between individuals in various contexts, from a working place, to a conference, a museum, [...]

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Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Eletrónica e de Computadores Currently, an increasing bet in electric mobility has been made, particularly in electric [...]

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Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Computer Science Technological evolution is impacting several industries, e.g., by allowing them to deliver higher levels [...]

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[EN] In this thesis, an “Anxiety Model” is developed, by simulating EV driver´s charging decision under different degrees of anxiety, to give a more accurate [...]

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Car pooling is expected to significantly help in reducing traffic congestion and pollution in cities by enabling drivers to share their cars with travellers with similar itineraries [...]

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In this paper, we present an optimized 3D stereoscopic display based on parallax barriers for a driving simulator. The overall purpose of the simulator is to enable user studies [...]

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In this paper, we focus on interconnected trajectory optimization of two sets of solenoid actuated butterfly valves dynamically coupled in series. The system undergoes different [...]

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International audience; This paper presents an approach for formation control of autonomous vehicles traversing along a multi-lane road with obstacles and traffic. A major [...]

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Evaluating bed morphological structure and evolution (specifically the scoured bed level) accurately using numerical models is critical for analyses of the stability of many [...]

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In artificial vision applications, such as tracking, a large amount of data captured by sensors is transferred to processors to extract information relevant for the task at [...]

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The Traffic Aware Planner (TAP) software application is a cockpit-based advisory tool designed to be hosted on an Electronic Flight Bag and to enable and test the NASA concept [...]

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This paper considers the problem of integrating unmanned aircraft into low altitude airspace above urban environments, including major terminal areas and helicopter landing [...]

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Driver mental underload is an important concern in the operational safety of automated driving. In this study, workload was evaluated subjectively (NASA RTLX) and objectively [...]

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Car sharing holds a promise of reducing traffic congestion and pollution in cities as well as of boosting the use of public transport when used as a last-mile solution in [...]

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Graphical processing units (GPUs) are increasingly used to run a wide range of general purpose applications. Due to wide variation in application parallelism and inherent [...]

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With a proliferation of new and unconventional vehicles and operations expected in the future, the ab initio airspace design will require new approaches to trajectory prediction [...]

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Presented during the McMaster University Big Ideas Better Cities Conference on April 20, 2016 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. "div""br""/div""div"This work is part of the Environmental [...]

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Car sharing is a new mode of transportation that is gaining increasing popularity with its promise to reduce traffic congestion, parking demands and pollution in our cities. [...]

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Video on Demand (VoD) services like Netflix and YouTube account for ever increasing fractions of Internet traffic. It is estimated that this fraction will cross 80% in the [...]

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—L-band Digital Aeronautical Communication System (LDACS) is an emerging standard that aims at enhancing air traffic management by transitioning the traditional analog aeronautical [...]

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Since the number of vehicles is increasing day by day, traffic jams are becoming a common scenario in large cities like Dhaka. These frequent traffic jams at major junctions [...]

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Currently the problem of improving the asphalt quality is very urgent. It is used primarily as topcoats exposed to the greatest relative to the other layers of the road, dynamic [...]

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This paper deals with a green energy highway in the Netherlands. Here, the development of electric mobility and self- driving cars is introduced. The ideas of wireless power [...]

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International audience; The aim of this paper is to analyze, via a case study, the main issues related to data production in a preliminary step of defining and designing a [...]

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Nowadays, many pedestrians are victims of road accidents. Several artificial vision solutions, based on pedestrian detection, have therefore been developed to assist drivers [...]

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International audience; The deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) raises the question of future traffic management systems, which will be operating [...]

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We propose a new sensing device that can simultaneously monitor urban traffic congestion and another phenomenon of interest (flash floods on the present case). This sensing [...]

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Distributed energy resources are able to provide services to grid operators, possibly with competing objectives. With the development of active distribution grid management, [...]

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We present a 3D-ranging camera based on the optical indirect Time-of-Flight technique, suitable for automotive applications. The camera is based on a 64×32-pixel chip, integrating [...]

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CORE, a harvesting service offering access to millions of open access research papers from around the world, has shifted its harvesting process from following a monolithic [...]

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International audience; While the mouse is the main input device for interacting with different screens, many alternatives do exist. In this article, we report our exploratory [...]

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The purpose of this paper is to bring together multiple literature sources which present innovative methodologies for the assessment of driver state, driving context and performance [...]

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The study focuses on evaluating the safety awareness of roadside traders along the major axis of Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria. The objectives include to identify the location [...]

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Since 2007, the pipeline industry has experienced a large increase in pipeline construction. Construction inspections performed by the Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline [...]

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NASA is currently conducting concept exploration studies toward the definition of a far-term, gate-to-gate concept for Trajectory-Based Operations. This paper presents a basic [...]

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The application of in-line inspection (ILI) to assess pipelines for various anomalies is standard practice in the pipeline industry. When ILI data identifies the presence [...]

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The TeDP concept has been presented as a possible solution to reduce aircraft emissions despite the continuing trend for increased air traffic. However, much of the benefit [...]

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Vehicles with automated driving systems require more sensor information about their environment than non-automated vehicles. Detection with camera, lidar or other sensors [...]

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Fatigue crack growth rate (da/dN) versus stress intensity factor range (ΔK) relationships were measured for various grades of pipeline steel along with their respective welds [...]

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htmlabstractThis work aims at reducing the main-memory footprint in high performance hybrid OLTP & OLAP databases, while retaining high query performance and transactional [...]

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Transportation research is mainly focused on answering the question of how to eliminate traffic congestion over large scale areas. Inasmuch as a large portion of big cities [...]

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Traffic congestion is a major concern in many cities around the world. Previous work mainly focuses on the prediction of congestion and analysis of traffic flows, while the [...]

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This paper deals with a general Multi-Day Container Drayage Problem (MDCDP) that consists in assigning trucks to container transportation orders during several days. To this [...]

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Internet traffic is generated by a multitude of applications, each one with diverse service requirements in terms of bandwidth, latency, reliability, etc. Today traffic engineering [...]

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International audience; Precise localization in dense urban areas is a challenging task for both mobile mapping and driver assistance systems. This paper proposes a strategy [...]

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Resource sharing in the mapping of an algorithm to an architecture allows the same resource to be scheduled for different uses in different cycles, generally at the cost of [...]

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International audience; Over the last few years, obligations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have led European States to propose ambitious targets concerning electrifying [...]

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The North Atlantic Airspace (NAT) accommodates traffic between Europe and North America. This area is considered as the most congested oceanic airspace in the world. Radar-Based [...]

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Nowadays, the idea of a completely interconnected city with infrastructure, vehicles and even the humans on a connectivity loop is a reality. This work is partly supported [...]

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Power-electronic interfacing based devices such as photovoltaic (PV) panels and electric vehicles (EVs) cause voltage/current harmonic distortions on the power grid. The harmonic [...]

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is conducting a series of flight tests intended to support the reduction of barriers that prevent unmanned aircraft from [...]

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Keywords: traffic engineering, electric bicycle flow, lane changing rule, cellular automaton model. Abstract. The electric bicycle has become the main part of non motor vehicles [...]

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This study proposes a methodology to analyze the impacts of Electric Vehicles (EVs) on Low Voltage (LV) distribution networks based on probabilistic models developed for the [...]

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In order to unleash the full potential of System Wide Information Management (SWIM), the BEST project(Achieving the Benefits of SWIM by Making Smart Use of Semantic Technologies) [...]

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The use of practices as a unit of analysis has been suggested in order to scale up efforts within sustainable HCI and to shift the focus from changing individual behaviours [...]

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Within the energy sector, two of the most tightly coupled systems are natural gas and electric power. The recent advent of cheap gas extraction technologies have only driven [...]

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This presentation corresponds to: our paper explores a new risk-hedged approach for re-routing air traffic around forecast convective weather. In this work, flying through [...]

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The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) is the only mid-IR Integral Field Spectrometer on board James Webb Space Telescope. The complexity [...]

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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven very effective for many vision benchmarks in object detection and classification tasks. However, the computational complexity [...]

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This paper provides a practical stochastic method by which the maximum equilibrium scour depth beneath a marine pipeline exposed to random waves on mild slopes can be derived. [...]

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Land Use/Land Cover Maps (LULCM), fundamental for many areas of application, are usually generated through the classification of satellite imagery. However, their creation [...]

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Based on previous studies, it is well understood that the hydrodynamic pressure difference across the pipeline is responsible for initiation of piping and the onset of scour. [...]

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Tactical departure scheduling within a terminal airspace must accommodate a wide spectrum of surveillance and communication capabilities at multiple airports. The success [...]

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The large interest in analyzing one’s own fitness led to the development of more and more powerful smartphone applications. Most are capable of tracking a user’s position [...]

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Multi-Aircraft Conflict Resolution (MACR) is a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problem, which involves multiple stakeholders (airline, air traffic controller, and aircraft) [...]

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Turnouts are a key element of the railway system. They are also one part of the railway system with the highest number of degradation modes and failures for a number of reasons, [...]

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SLAM has matured significantly over the past few years, and is beginning to appear in serious commercial products. While new SLAM systems are being proposed at every conference, [...]

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International audience; Future vehicles are expected to evolve towards enabling fully electric and autonomous driving. However, technically this evolution requires fundamental [...]

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International audience; Among all the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the Smart City concept has received significant attention in the last few years. The main motivation [...]

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The research and application of Intelligent Transportation System has developed rapidly due to the demand on safe , convenient , comfortable and information-based modern transportation. [...]

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hough still-to-video face recognition is an important function in watchlist screening, state-of-the-art systems often yield limited performance due to camera inter-operability [...]

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Reliable and accurate car driver head pose estimation is an important function for the next generation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems that need to consider the driver [...]

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© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Ways to increase sustainability of the city transport system and, particularly, measures to promote safe public transport and [...]

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Conventional set-associative data cache accesses waste energy since tag and data arrays of several ways are simultaneously accessed to sustain pipeline speed. Different access [...]

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Many applications in Natural Language Processing require a semantic analysis of sentences in terms of truth-conditional representations, often with specific desiderata in [...]

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International audience; Project Modern Taxiing (MoTa) studies the impact of future taxiing technologies such as Datalink and autonomous taxiing tugs on airport taxiing operations [...]

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of the route networks of two European low-cost airlines in 2015. A case study is presented which highlights the key differences [...]

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In this paper we are addressing the question how driverless vehicles (Cybercars) driving fully automated could interact with surrounding traffic participants. Cybercars present [...]