The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport: Operations, Design and Policy (Transport Economics, Management, and Policy)

The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport: Operations, Design and Policy (Transport Economics, Management, and Policy) Review

This book explores the numerous challenges to increase the use of intermodal transport systems in freight transport. In view of the current dominant role of road transport and the increasing difficulties in coping with growing number of vehicles in an efficient and sustainable way, intermodal freight transport could be considered a viable alternative. However, the book makes recognition of the fact that there is still a need to improve the performance of the intermodal transport system. The expert contributors provide an overview of the present role of intermodal freight transport, address opportunities to significantly improve current performance, and demonstrate design and modelling tools used to analyse and support this performance. Requirements for the implementation of intermodal innovations are also prescribed, and policies needed to improve competitiveness are outlined.Many factors contributing to the performance and competitiveness of intermodal freight transport are explored, from technological and organisational innovations through to institutional settings and policy frameworks. This comprehensive range of topics will attract a broad audience including academics, researchers, policymakers and practitioners involved in the design and development of freight transport systems. It will also strongly appeal to those with an interest in the future of freight transport.

Lockheed C-5 Case Study in Aircraft Design

Lockheed C-5 Case Study in Aircraft Design Review

This case study is an account of the sequential phases of development of the Lockheed C-5 transport, including preconcept formulation, concept formulation, project definition, and proposal and acquisition phase with detailed design, manufacture, and qualification.

Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering: Artifical organ Design and Development, and Tissue Engineering

Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering: Artifical organ Design and Development, and Tissue Engineering Review

A Cutting-Edge Guide to Applying Transport Phenomena Principles to Bioengineering Systems

Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering: Artificial Order Design and Development and Tissue Engineering explains how to apply the equations of continuity, momentum, energy, and mass to human anatomical systems. This authoritative resource presents solutions along with term-by-term medical significance. Worked exercises illustrate the equations derived, and detailed case studies highlight real-world examples of artificial organ design and human tissue engineering.

Coverage includes:

• Fundamentals of fluid mechanics and principles of molecular diffusion
• Osmotic pressure, solvent permeability, and solute transport
• Rheology of blood and transport
• Gas transport
• Pharmacokinetics
• Tissue design
• Bioartificial organ design and immunoisolation
• Bioheat transport
• 541 end-of-chapter exercises and review questions
• 106 illustrations
• 1,469 equations derived from first principles

The Paris-Lexington Road: Community-Based Planning And Context Sensitive Highway Design (Landscape Architecture Foundation Land and Community Design Case Study Series)

The Paris-Lexington Road: Community-Based Planning And Context Sensitive Highway Design (Landscape Architecture Foundation Land and Community Design Case Study Series) Review

Located in the heart of the Kentucky Bluegrass Region, the "Paris Pike" is a scenic, twelve-mile corridor running between Lexington and Paris. Beginning in 1969, the state of Kentucky sought to widen the road in order to improve safety and capacity. Various objections led to a federal court injunction imposed in 1979 that halted the project for more than fifteen years. Over the span of three decades, several consultant studies contributed to the public understanding of the road's significance and set the stage for what has been regarded as the model for context-sensitive road reconstruction in America.

The Paris-Lexington Road focuses on the history of the reconstruction of the Paris Pike (now renamed the "Paris-Lexington Road") to critically review this reconstruction project and illustrate its significance to the profession of landscape architecture. It also situates the role of landscape architects in the history of highway design, and examines the various contemporary challenges and opportunities represented within the Paris Pike project.

Consumer-Oriented Business Design: The Case of Airport Management (Contributions to Management Science)

Consumer-Oriented Business Design: The Case of Airport Management (Contributions to Management Science) Review

Driven by rapidly changing business environments and more demanding consumers, many organizations are searching for new ways to achieve and retain a competitive advantage. In this context, new strategic frameworks and market research designs are needed that allow managers to synchronize the evolution of new offerings with changes in motivational patterns of consumers. This book presents a new strategic framework and the corresponding market research design which have already been tested successfully by a large empirical study at Munich airport. The framework has provided considerable input for new offering design and, therefore, the business redesign of organizations meeting future requirements of consumers.

Introduction to the Design of Fixed-Wing Micro Air Vehicles: Including Three Case Studies

Introduction to the Design of Fixed-Wing Micro Air Vehicles: Including Three Case Studies Review

This intriguing book breaks new ground on an emerging subject that has attracted considerable attention: the use of unmanned Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) to conduct special, limited duration missions. Significant advances in the miniaturization of electronics make it now possible to use vehicles of this type in a detection or surveillance role to carry visual, acoustic, chemical, or biological sensors. Interestingly, many of the advances in MAV technology can be traced directly to annual student competitions, begun in the late 1990s, that use relatively low cost model airplane equipment. The wide variety of configurations entered in these contests and their ongoing success has led to a serious interest in testing the performance of these vehicles for adaptation to practical applications. MAVs present aerodynamic issues unique to their size and the speeds at which they operate. Of particular concern is the aerodynamic efficiency of various fixed wing concepts. Very little information on the performance of low aspect ratio wing planforms existed for this flight regime until MAVs became of interest and the proliferation of fixed wing designs has since expanded. This book presents a brief history of unmanned air vehicles and offers elements of aerodynamics for low aspect ratio wings. Propulsion and the basic concepts for fixed wing MAV design are presented, as is a method for autopilot integration. Three different wing configurations are presented in a series of step-by-step case studies. The goal of the book is to assist both working professionals and students to design, build, and fly MAVs, and do so in a way that will advance the state of the art and lead to the development of even smaller aircraft.