Author: Andrew T. W. Pickford Publisher: Artech House Publishers ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
"Serving as a road map to today's technologies, systems, regulatory issues, and pricing schemes for electronic toll collection and road user charging, this authoritative book helps professionals cut through the maze of available solutions and design options, so they can match the right technology to their policy needs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jerzy Mikulski Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642416470 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 501
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2013, held in Katowice-Ustron, Poland, in October 2013. The 58 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They provide an overview of solutions being developed in the field of intelligent transportation systems, and include theoretical and case studies in the countries of conference participants.
Author: James Muma Mwape Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 161579364X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
GUIDE TO ELECTRONIC TOLL PAYMENTS shows you how to avoid congestions on toll roads, bridges and tunnels, how to save time and money and even travel at highway cruising speeds by paying your tolls electronically. This book, which covers mainland US, Puerto Rico and Canada, looks at each toll operator separately and gives tips on how you can save money by not paying the full fare again on average. Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) is a proven and efficient method with lots of satisfied motorists using it everyday. Still paying cash at toll plazas? You are over paying, losing time waiting in the queue and polluting the environment. If you live or drive through a region with toll roads, bridges or tunnels this book will help you understand not only how ETC works but how to open your account and who to call when you need help. James M. Mwape, MBA, MS, is a Business Manager for the E-ZPass Interagency Group. He currently serves on the OmniAir Consortium, Inc. Electronic Payment Systems Committee as Co-Chair. He is also an active participant in the I-95 Corridor Coalition Electronic Payment Systems and speaks at various conferences on Electronic Payments. He has also worked in New York City and Yonkers Public School systems as a Chemistry teacher. Prior to September 11, terrorist attack on New York he worked in the banking and insurance industry in New York City. He is the Director of the River Academy, which provides free tutoring service to South Jersey students. He has traveled extensively around the world and speaks multiple languages. He lives in New Jersey and loves traveling, playing golf and bike riding with his wife Ruth and their three children Natasha, James, Jr. and Simon in his spare time.
Author: Albert E. Schaufler Publisher: Transportation Research Board ISBN: 9780309060165 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
This synthesis presents information on the design of toll plazas at highway, bridge, tunnel, and other transportation facilities. It will be of interest to toll facility managers and other officials, as well as to consultants concerned with the design, operation, and maintenance of toll facilities. It can also be useful to financial personnel, traffic engineers, planners, and security and enforcement personnel. In addition, it provides information to those concerned with environmental issues such as drainage, runoff, lighting, noise, and air quality. The report focuses on the design factors affecting toll plazas, including traffic, toll collection methods, location and configuration of toll plazas, as well as congestion management, operation and maintenance of the facility, and environmental issues. The synthesis includes discussions of existing standards and practices related to toll facility design, including plaza and roadway geometrics, lane configuration, electronic toll collection, capacity, access, communication, safety and security, signing, pavement markings, and new technology.
Author: Juan de Dios Ortúzar Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119993520 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 584
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Already the market leader in the field, Modelling Transport has become still more indispensible following a thorough and detailed update. Enhancements include two entirely new chapters on modelling for private sector projects and on activity-based modelling; a new section on dynamic assignment and micro-simulation; and sizeable updates to sections on disaggregate modelling and stated preference design and analysis. It also tackles topical issues such as valuation of externalities and the role of GPS in travel time surveys. Providing unrivalled depth and breadth of coverage, each topic is approached as a modelling exercise with discussion of the roles of theory, data, model specification, estimation, validation and application. The authors present the state of the art and its practical application in a pedagogic manner, easily understandable to both students and practitioners. Follows on from the highly successful third edition universally acknowledged as the leading text on transport modelling techniques and applications Includes two new chapters on modelling for private sector projects and activity based modeling, and numerous updates to existing chapters Incorporates treatment of recent issues and concerns like risk analysis and the dynamic interaction between land use and transport Provides comprehensive and rigorous information and guidance, enabling readers to make practical use of every available technique Relates the topics to new external factors and technologies such as global warming, valuation of externalities and global positioning systems (GPS).
Author: Tom V. Mathew Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9813290420 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 883
Book Description
This book presents selected papers from the 4th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India. It provides a comprehensive analysis of themes spanning the field of transportation encompassing economics, financial management, social equity, green technologies, operations research, big data analysis, econometrics and structural mechanics. This volume will be of interest to researchers, educators, practitioners, managers, and policy-makers world-wide.
Author: Albert Glinsky Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252025822 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 486
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LEON THEREMIN led a life of flamboyant musical invention laced with daring electronic stealth. A creative genius and prolific inventor, Theremin launched the field of electronic music virtually singlehandedly in 1920 with the musical instrument that bears his name. The theremin -- the only instrument that is played without being touched -- created a sensation worldwide and paved the way for the modern synthesizer. Its otherworldly sound became familiar in sci-fi films and even in rock music. This magical instrument that charmed millions, however, is only the beginning of the story. As a Soviet scientist, Theremin surrendered his life and work to the service of State espionage. On assignment in Depression-era America, he became the toast of New York society and worked the engines of capitalist commerce while passing data on U.S. industrial technology to the Soviet apparat. Following his sudden disappearance from New York in 1938, Theremin was exiled to a Siberian labor camp. He subsequently vanished into the top-secret Soviet intelligence machine and was presumed dead for nearly thirty years. Using the same technology that lay behind the theremin, he designed bugging devices that eavesdropped on U.S. diplomatic offices and stood at the center of a pivotal cold war confrontation. Throughout his life, Theremin developed many other electronic wonders, including one of the earliest televisions and multimedia devices that anticipated performance art and virtual reality by decades. In this first full biography of Leon Theremin, Albert Glinsky depicts the inventor's nearly one-hundred-year life span as a microcosm of the twentieth century. Theremin is seen at the epicenter of most of themajor events of the century: the Russian Revolution, two world wars, America's Great Depression, Stalin's purges, the cold war, and perestroika. His life emerges as no less than a metaphor for the divergence of communism and capitalism. Theremin blends the whimsical and the treacherous into a chronicle that takes in everything from the KGB to Macy's store windows, Alcatraz to the Beach Boys, Hollywood thrillers to the United Nations, Joseph Stalin to Shirley Temple. Theremin's world of espionage and invention is an amazing drama of hidden loyalties, mixed motivations, and an irrepressibly creative spirit.
Author: Andrew T. W. Pickford
Author: Jerzy Mikulski
Author: James Muma Mwape
Author: Robert W. Poole
Author: Diane Louise Venable
Author: Michael C. Pietrzyk
Author: Albert E. Schaufler
Author: Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Author: Tom V. Mathew
Author: Albert Glinsky