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WIT Press Urban Transport v. 16 Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century 2010 Edition by A. Pratelli, C. A. Brebbia
This international conference on Urban Transport and the Environment has successfully been reconvened annually for the last sixteen years. It has always attracted a wide international spread of delegates and is well established as the premier annual event of its type. It first started in Southampton, UK in 1995; continuing in Barcelona, Spain (1996); Acquasparta, Italy (1997); Lisbon, Portugal (1998); Rhodes, Greece (1999); Cambridge, UK (2000); Lemnos, Greece (2001); Seville, Spain (2002); Crete, Greece (2003); Dresden, Germany (2004); Algarve, Portugal (2005); WIT campus in the New Forest, UK (2006); Coimbra, Portugal (2007); Malta (2008); and Bologna, Italy (2009) Table of Contents : Contents Section 1: Transport strategies A transport strategy for Portugal; Pedestrians' needs in the urban environment: the case of the city of Trikala, Greece; Costs and externalities of road transport in Portugal Section 2: Transport modelling and simulation Ant Colony Optimisation approaches for the transportation assignment problem; Small urban area transportation planningAn investigation of the variability of start-up lost times and departure headways at signalized intersections in urban areas Section 3: Transport safety and security Roundabout perception: review of standards and guidelines for advanced warning; The evacuation plan design under uncertain times of transportation;An information and cooperation portal for large public events in urban areas; Pedestrian risk perception in signalized street crossings Section 4: Public transport systems Suggestions toward quality improvement in public transportation service in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil; Optimisation of transit fares: a multimodal approach based on system and external costsDesign of urban public transport lines as a multiple criteria optimisation problem Section 5: Land use and transport integration Urban planning guidelines for a low carbon society: focus on urban transport; The expected role of railways in the economic development of Saudi Arabia Section 6: Environmental impact A model to estimate road transport emissions from the entire life cycle; Emission tests in city buses under real road conditions; Experimental investigation of combustion characteristics and emissions in a spark ignition engine fuelled with gas in lean operation; The study of urban track transportation environmental noise and vibration prevention: floating slab track of Taipei MRT; Effectiveness of mobility management in a transportation policy aimed at achieving the Kyoto Protocol - Kyoto project for studying an efficient car utilization Section 7: Rail transport strategies Model of connecting an airport by rail - case study: the city of Zagreb; Benefits of urban light rail trains: a perspective from Spain; The role of railway stations in increasing transport demand; Investigating the traction system in trains Section 8: Infrastructure A comparison of the engineering properties of gap-graded and well-graded road bituminous mixtures; Petrographic assessment of re-textured road surface aggregates Section 9: Safety of users in road evacuation Special session chaired by Francesco Russo Dynamic approaches to demand model in evacuation conditions; A system of models for signal setting design of a signalized road network in evacuation conditions; A tool for tracing emergency vehicles during evacuation; Evaluation methods for evacuation planning