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Author : R. Q. Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Alternative Cars in the 21st Century: a New Personal Transportation Paradigm written by R. Q. Riley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Q Riley
Publisher : SAE International
ISBN 13 : 0768047765
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Alternative Cars in the 21st Century written by Robert Q Riley and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapidly changing landscape of alternative car technologies created the need for the second edition of Alternative Cars in the 21st Century: A New Personal Transportation Paradigm. This essential publication provides an abundance of critical knowledge for engineering professionals and consumers alike, offering a brighter alternative future through better alternative cars.
Author : Remco Hoogma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134488211
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Experimenting for Sustainable Transport written by Remco Hoogma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way.
Author : Kenneth J Waldron
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814525545
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Nature-Inspired Mobile Robotics written by Kenneth J Waldron and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings provide state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and assistive technologies. The proceedings collected together peer reviewed articles presented at the CLAWAR 2013 conference. It contains a strong showing of articles on legged locomotion with numbers of legs from two onwards. There is also a good collection of articles on systems that walls climbing, poles balancing, and other more complex structures following the traditional of CLAWAR themes. In addition, the proceedings also cover the subject of robot-human interaction, which focus on a more “human” way of communicating with humanoid robots. As for human assistive devices, proceedings also cover exoskeletal and prosthetic devices, robots for personal and nursing cares to address the issues of ageing population in our society. Finally, the issue of the deployment of robots in society, it social and ethically consideration are also addressed in the proceedings. Contents:Plenary PresentationsAssistive RoboticsAutonomous RobotsBiologically-Inspired Systems and SolutionsHMI, Inspection and LearningInnovative Design of CLAWARLocomotionManipulation and GrippingModelling and Simulation of CLAWARPlanning and ControlPositioning, Localization and PerceptionSensing and Sensor FusionService Robot Standards and Standardization Readership: Systems and control engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers in academic, research and industrial settings; engineers and practitioners in the public services sectors in health care, manufacturing, supply and delivery services. Keywords:Assistive Robotics;Autonomous Robots;Biologically Inspired Robotics;CLAWAR;Climbing and Walking Robots;Design of CLAWAR;Hybrid Locomotion;Legged Locomotion;Mobile Robots;Modeling and Simulation;Planning and Control;Robot Standardization;Service Robotics;Wheeled Locomotion
Author : William L. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195346734
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Transportation Experience written by William L. Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much of the transportation systems in Europe and the United States are mature (if not senescent), the rest of the world is still planning, developing, and deploying new systems. The accomplishments and mistakes of places like the United Kingdom and the United States, then, can teach us lessons that may be applied to places where transportation remains nascent or adolescent. The Transportation Experience seeks to understand the genesis of transportation policy in America and the UK, along with the roles that this policy plays as systems are innovated, deployed, and reach maturity, and how policies might be improved.
Author : Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262681148
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Public-private Policy Partnerships written by Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to evaluate public-private partnerships in a broad range of policy areas.
Author : James A. Dunn
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815707207
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Driving Forces written by James A. Dunn and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To its critics, the automobile is a voracious consumer of irreplaceable energy resources, a leading polluter of the environment, and a destroyer of cohesive communities. The most outspoken opponents call for greater regulations and restrictions to ultimately replace the automobile as the country's primary means of transportation. But their proposals all ignore one simple fact: Americans love their cars! Millions of citizens have made the automobile the most successful method of mass transportation ever developed, and they are not about to give up the personal mobility it offers. This book presents the controversial view that, for the vast majority of Americans, the automobile is not the problem, but the solution to transportation needs. While acknowledging the automobile's significant drawbacks, the author refutes much of the shrill rhetoric and doomsday predictions of its opponents. He takes a skeptical look at the major policy initiatives to tax, regulate, and provide alternatives to the automobile, pointing out that any policies designed to remove Americans from their cars without offering them a superior means of mobility are "worse than useless" and doomed to failure. The book offers suggestions and guidelines for politically realistic initiatives that preserve the benefits of the automobile while building public support for policies that will reduce its negative effects on energy use and the environment.
Author : Marcio de Almeida D'Agosto
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128134550
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Transportation, Energy Use and Environmental Impacts written by Marcio de Almeida D'Agosto and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation, Energy Use and Environmental Impacts shows researchers, students and professionals the important connection between transportation planning, energy use and emissions. The book examines the major transportation activities, components, systems and subsystems by mode. It closely explores the resulting environmental impacts from transport planning, construction and the decommissioning of transportation systems. It discusses transportation planning procedures from an energy use standpoint, offering guidelines to make transportation more energy consumption efficient. Other sections cover propulsion and energy use systems, focusing on road transportation, railway, waterway, pipeline, air, air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, and more. Shows the relationship between road, rail, maritime, air and pipeline transportation activities with fuel use and pollution, greenhouse gases and waste Provides a comprehensive approach, covering transportation system planning, design and infrastructure construction Synthesizes the needed information and data, explaining how to improve transportation system performance Includes learning aids, such as cases from around the globe, a glossary, extensive bibliography, chapter objectives, summaries and exercises
Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793604894
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition written by Hans A. Baer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.
Author : Peter Jedicke
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250103398
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Extreme Science: The Highway of Light and Other Man-Made Wonders written by Peter Jedicke and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 34 Scientific American selections from 1995-1999 explore extreme construction projects (e.g., the world's longest suspension bridge and tallest buildings); and developments in transportation by air, space, sea, and road. Includes illustrations and suggested reading.
Author : Ronald K Jurgen
Publisher : SAE International
ISBN 13 : 0768008336
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Electric and Hybrid-Electric Vehicles written by Ronald K Jurgen and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles recent advances in electric and hybrid-electric vehicles and looks ahead to the future potential of these vehicles. Featuring SAE technical papers -- plus articles from Automotive Engineering International magazine -- from 1997-2001, Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles provides coverage of topics such as: Lithium-Ion Batteries Regenerative Braking Fuel Economy Transmissions Fuel Cell Technology Hydrogen-Fueled Engines And many more Electric and hybrid-electric activities at companies such as Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Dodge, and Toyota are also covered.
Author : Peter Newman
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610914635
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The End of Automobile Dependence written by Peter Newman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities are revitalizing, and suburban sprawl is reversing. Walking and cycling are growing in many cities, along with ubiquitous bike sharing schemes, which have contributed to new investment and vitality in central cities including Melbourne, Seattle, Chicago, and New York. We are thus in a new era that has come much faster than global transportation experts Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy had predicted: the end of automobile dependence. In The End of Automobile Dependence, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes, with a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated data on 44 global cities to better understand how to facilitate and guide cities to the most productive and sustainable outcomes. This is the final volume in a trilogy by Newman and Kenworthy on automobile dependence (Cities and Automobile Dependence in 1989 and Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence in 1999). Like all good trilogies this one shows the rise of an empire, in this case that of the automobile, the peak of its power, and the decline of that empire.
Author : Hans Fogelberg
Publisher : Hans Fogelberg
ISBN 13 : 9197386804
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Electrifying Visions written by Hans Fogelberg and published by Hans Fogelberg. This book was released on 2000 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John E Dolce
Publisher : SAE International
ISBN 13 : 0768068487
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Fleet Manager's Guide to Vehicle Specification and Procurement written by John E Dolce and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2003-11-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and expanded to include the most recent related information, the second edition of the Fleet Manager's Guide to Vehicle Specification and Procurement is an essential resource for all managers and supervisors involved in these functional areas. Written in concise, simple language, this publication offers a wealth of practical approaches for both saving money and yielding higher profits. Contents include: Vehicle Utilization and Cost Strategies Vehicle Life-Cycle Costing Specification Preparation Economics of Vehicle Replacement and more
Author : G. Calabrese
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137018909
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Greening of the Automotive Industry written by G. Calabrese and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the greening of the automotive industry by the path dependence of countries and carmakers' trajectories. Three sources of path dependency can be detected: business models, consumer attitudes, and policy regulations. The automobile is changing and the race towards alternative driving systems has started!
Author : Clifford W. Walton
Publisher : The Electrochemical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781566771818
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Symposium on Energy and Electrochemical Processing for a Cleaner Environment written by Clifford W. Walton and published by The Electrochemical Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Orsato
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230236855
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Sustainability Strategies written by R. Orsato and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analysing the rationales for sustainability strategies, this book addresses a timely question for managers, academics and MBAs: 'when does it pay to be green?' Based on solid theoretical foundations and empirical research, it clarifies the elements involved in the formation and evaluation of sustainability strategies in firms.
