Transportation Systems and Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Transportation Systems and Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Information Resources Management Association

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From driverless cars to vehicular networks, recent technological advances are being employed to increase road safety and improve driver satisfaction. As with any newly developed technology, researchers must take care to address all concerns, limitations, and dangers before widespread public adoption.

Transportation Systems and Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications addresses current trends in transportation technologies, such as smart cars, green technologies, and infrastructure development. This multivolume book is a critical reference source for engineers, computer scientists, transportation authorities, students, and practitioners in the field of transportation systems management.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Preface

Chapters

Fundamental Concepts and Theories

Chapter 1

Transportation Risk Analysis (pages 1-31)

Dragan Crnčević

Petroleum is transported across the water in barges and tankers, and on land, using pipelines, trucks, and trains. Natural gas is moved, mainly, by pipelines. The most common causes of tanker accidents are: fire/explosions...

Chapter 2

Petroleum Industry Environmental Performance and Risk (pages 32-56)

Lidia Hrncevic

The petroleum industry holds long- and short-term environmental risks. Besides production fluids, all petroleum industry activities involve either use of fluids, which contain abundant substances, or waste generation, both associated...

Chapter 3

Risk Due to Wellbore Instability (pages 57-78)

Nediljka Gaurina-Medjimurec, Borivoje Pasic

Exploration and production as one of the most important parts of the petroleum industry encounters different problems, usually resulting in nonproductive time and additional expenses. The most common and most expensive of them are...

Chapter 4

Risk Reduction in Natural Disaster Management through Information Systems: A Literature Review and an IS Design Science Research Agenda (pages 79-107)

Guido Schryen, Felix Wex

Natural disasters, including earthquakes, Tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions, have caused tremendous harm and continue to threaten millions of humans and various infrastructure capabilities each year. In their...

Chapter 5

Knowledge Management in Support of Enterprise Risk Management (pages 108-127)

Eduardo Rodriguez, John S. Edwards

Risk management and knowledge management have so far been studied almost independently. The evolution of risk management to the holistic view of Enterprise Risk Management requires the destruction of barriers between organizational...

Chapter 6

Oil and Gas Storage Tank Risk Analysis (pages 128-142)

Katarina Simon

Storage tanks are widely used in the oil refinery and petrochemical industry in storing a multitude of different products ranging from gases, liquids, solids, and mixtures. Design and safety concerns have become a priority due to...

Chapter 7

Employing Traffic Lights as Road Side Units for Road Safety Information Broadcast (pages 143-159)

Navin Kumar, Luis Nero Alves, Rui L. Aguiar

There is great concern over growing road accidents and associated fatalities. In order to reduce accidents, improve congestion and offer smooth flow of traffic, several measures, such as providing intelligence to transport, providing...

Chapter 8

Risk Requirement for Multi-Hybrid Renewable Energy for Marine System (pages 160-173)

Oladokun Sulaiman Olanrewaju

The chapter communicates environmental challenges facing the maritime industry. Efforts to integrate sources of alternative energy with existing systems through holistic proactive risk-based analysis and assessment requirements of...

Chapter 9

The Impact of Traffic Information Acquisition on the Traffic Conditions of the Athens Greater Area (pages 174-191)

Athena Tsirimpa, Amalia Polydoropoulou

The main objective of this article is to gain fundamental understanding on the effect of real time information acquisition, on the traffic conditions of the Athens greater area. Activity scheduling is a dynamic process, where...

Chapter 10

Intrusion Detection in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks on Lower Layers (pages 192-220)

Chong Han, Sami Muhaidat, Ibrahim Abualhaol, Mehrdad Dianati, Rahim Tafazolli

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) are a critical component of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which involve the applications of advanced information processing, communications, sensing, and controlling technologies in...

Chapter 11

Pareto Evolutionary Optimization of Joint Network Design and Pricing Strategies Related to Emissions in Urban Networks (pages 221-249)

Loukas Dimitriou, Antonios Kaltsounis, Antony Stathopoulos

In the current social, physical, economical and environmental circumstances of scarcity, the design and management of vital lifelines like transportation systems, especially within the metropolitan context, are subject to the...

Chapter 12

Project Risk Management: Use and Benefit of Various Tools (pages 250-271)

Jan Terje Karlsen, Odin Folke-Olsen, Tim Torvatn

This study is about project risk management tools. The aim has been to identify which tools have the greatest potential for contribution to risk management processes in the Norwegian oil and gas industry, and which factors contribute...

Chapter 13

Privacy Protection in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (pages 272-309)

Gongjun Yan, Danda B. Rawat, Bhed Bahadur Bista, Wu He, Awny Alnusair

The first main contribution of this chapter is to take a non-trivial step towards providing a robust and scalable solution to privacy protection in vehicular networks. To promote scalability and robustness the authors employ two...

Chapter 14

Passenger Train Delay Classification (pages 310-319)

Masoud Yaghini, Maryam Setayesh Sanai, Hossein Amin Sadrabady

One of the most popular data mining areas, which estimate future trends of data, is classification. This research is dedicated to predict Iranian passenger train delay with high accuracy over Iranian railway network. A hybrid method...

Chapter 15

Managing Information for a Risk Based Approach to Stakeholder Management (pages 320-333)

Franco Caron, Fulvio Salvatori

This paper proposes a risk based approach in order to obtain a quantitative estimate of the salience of the stakeholders involved in a project. The integration between stakeholders and risk management processes in the Project...

Chapter 16

Simulation-Based Scheduling of Waterway Projects Using a Parallel Genetic Algorithm (pages 334-347)

Ning Yang, Shiaaulir Wang, Paul Schonfeld

A Parallel Genetic Algorithm (PGA) is used for a simulation-based optimization of waterway project schedules. This PGA is designed to distribute a Genetic Algorithm application over multiple processors in order to speed up the...

Frameworks and Methodologies

Chapter 17

Methodology for Risk Assessment and Costs Associated with Risk Occurrence in E-Government Projects (pages 349-369)

Neven Vrček, Petra Peharda, Dušan Munđar

The main purpose of this chapter is to emphasize the problem of e-government project risks and to introduce a methodology for risk assessment and calculation of costs associated with risk occurrence in e-government projects based on...

Chapter 18

A Link-Node Nonlinear Complementarity Model for a Multiclass Simultaneous Transportation Dynamic User Equilibria (pages 370-392)

Mohamad K. Hasan, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban

Static transportation network equilibrium models have evolved from traditional sequential models to simultaneous (combined) models, and then to the multiclass simultaneous models to improve prediction of traffic flow. Most Dynamic...

Chapter 19

Proactive Security Protection of Critical Infrastructure: A Process Driven Methodology (pages 393-421)

Bill Bailey, Robert Doleman

The belief that a static alarm system will safeguard critical infrastructure without additional support mechanisms is misplaced. This complacency is no longer satisfactory with the increase in worldwide threat levels and the...

Chapter 20

A Real Time Topological Map Matching Methodology for GPS/GIS-Based Travel Behavior Studies (pages 422-439)

Carola A. Blazquez, Pablo A. Miranda

The map matching problem arises when GPS measurements are incorrectly assigned to the roadway network in a GIS environment. This chapter presents a real-time topological decision rule-based methodology that detects and solves spatial...

Chapter 21

STAR-TRANS Modeling Language: Risk Modeling in the STAR-TRANS Risk Assessment Framework (pages 440-455)

Dimitris Zisiadis, George Thanos, Spyros Kopsidas, George Leventakis

Transportation networks are open and accessible, by design, and thus vulnerable to malicious attacks. Transportation networks are integral parts of larger systems, where individual transportation networks form a network-of-networks...

Chapter 22

Proposed Isomorphic Graph Model for Risk Assessment on a Unix Operating System (pages 456-469)

Prashant Kumar Patra, Padma Lochan Pradhan

Control and risk are the two parts of the coin. Risk assessment is the process of identifying uncertainties, vulnerabilities and threats to the operating system resources in order to achieve business objectives. Risk evaluation...

Chapter 23

The Role of a Sustainability Informatics Framework in Transportation Systems (pages 470-486)

Lin Jia, Barry Cumbie, Chetan S. Sankar, Jian Yu

This article develops a Sustainability Informatics Framework, a framework that connects Information Technology with sustainability and is based on the Belief-Action-Outcome and Energy Informatics frameworks. The triple-bottom line...

Chapter 24

Meta-Modeling Based Secure Software Development Processes (pages 487-505)

Mehrez Essafi, Henda Ben Ghezala

This work suggests a multilevel support to software developers, who often lack knowledge and skills on how to proceed to develop secure software. In fact, developing software with such quality is a hard and complex task that involves...

Chapter 25

Maturity and Process Capability Models and Their Use in Measuring Resilience in Critical Infrastructure Protection Sectors (pages 506-526)

Clemith J. Houston Jr., Douglas C. Sicker

This paper provides a literature review and survey of maturity and process capability models, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) tools and frameworks to identify strategies for assessing and measuring resilience and risk...

Chapter 26

ONTO-KMS-TEC: An Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Framework to Teach Engineering Courses (pages 527-550)

C. R. Rene Robin, D. Doreen Hepzibah Miriam, G. V. Uma

Knowledge management tools have been used in higher educational institutions for years to improve the effectiveness of teaching methodologies. Knowledge management in pedagogical includes processes of knowledge discovery, capture...

Chapter 27

Dynamic FCFS ACM Model for Risk Assessment on Real Time Unix File System (pages 551-571)

Prashant Kumar Patra, Padma Lochan Pradhan

The access control is a mechanism that a system grants, revoke the right to access the object. The subject and object can able to integrate, synchronize, communicate and optimize through read, write and execute over a UFS. The access...

Chapter 28

Critical Risk Path Method: A Risk and Contingency-Driven Model for Construction Procurement in Complex and Dynamic Projects (pages 572-584)

Chi Iromuanya, Kathleen M. Hargiss, Caroline Howard

Existing approaches to risk management in construction procurement primarily dwell on strategies designed for commonly identifiable risk factors in typical project environments. Commonly identifiable risk factors would include too...

Chapter 29

An Effective Methodology for Road Accident Data Collection in Developing Countries (pages 585-597)

Muhammad Adnan, Mir Shabbar Ali

Underreporting of road accidents has been widely accepted as a common phenomenon. In many developing countries this remains a critical problem as inappropriate information regarding road accidents does not provide a base to analyse...

Chapter 30

The Challenges of Obtaining Credible Data for Transportation Security Modeling (pages 598-611)

Matt Campo, Michael Greenberg, Henry Mayer, Karen Lowrie

The National Transportation Security Center of Excellence (NTSCOE) was established in August 2007 to develop new approaches to defend, protect, and increase the resilience of the nation's multi-modal transportation...

Chapter 31

Analysis of Risk and Reliability in Project Delivery Methods (pages 612-622)

Robert Schultz, Ahmad Sarfaraz, Kouroush Jenab

Risk and reliability are two main factors that must be studied in order to measure the successful rate of a project. As a result, innovative project delivery methods have been proposed to mitigate the risk and improve reliability of...

Chapter 32

Rural Intelligent Public Transportation System Design: Applying the Design for Re-Engineering of Transportation eCommerce System in Iran (pages 623-650)

Leila Esmaeili, Seyyed AliReza Hashemi G.

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In...

Chapter 33

GeneticTKM: A Hybrid Clustering Method Based on Genetic Algorithm, Tabu Search and K-Means (pages 651-661)

Masoud Yaghini, Nasim Gereilinia

The clustering problem under the criterion of minimum sum square of errors is a non-convex and non-linear problem, which possesses many locally optimal values, resulting that its solution often being stuck at locally optimal...

Chapter 34

Agent-Based Modeling for Carpooling (pages 662-688)

Luk Knapen, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Sungjin Cho, Tom Bellemans

Modeling activities and travel for individuals in order to estimate traffic demand leads to large scale simulations. Most current models simulate individuals acting in a mutually independent way except for the use of the shared...

Chapter 35

On-Board Unit Hardware and Software Design for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (pages 689-708)

Matteo Petracca, Paolo Pagano, Riccardo Pelliccia, Marco Ghibaudi, Claudio Salvadori, Christian Nastasi

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are a focus of public authorities and research communities in order for them to provide effective solutions for improving citizens' security and lifestyle. The effectiveness of such systems...

Tools and Technologies

Chapter 36

Enhancing DotProject to Support Risk Management Aligned with PMBOK in the Context of SMEs (pages 710-729)

Rafael Queiroz Gonçalves, Elisa de Freitas Kühlkamp, Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim

Many problems in software development projects are due to risks and could be avoided or minimized if identified and treated pro-actively. In this context, software tools to support risk management could be very helpful. However, it...

Chapter 37

A Pattern-Based and Tool-Supported Risk Analysis Method Compliant to ISO 27001 for Cloud Systems (pages 730-747)

Azadeh Alebrahim, Denis Hatebur, Stephan Fassbender, Ludger Goeke, Isabelle Côté

To benefit from cloud computing and the advantages it offers, obstacles regarding the usage and acceptance of clouds have to be cleared. For cloud providers, one way to obtain customers' confidence is to establish security...

Chapter 38

Risk Evaluation in the Insurance Company Using REFII Model (pages 748-768)

Goran Klepac

A business case describes a problem present in all insurance companies: portfolio risk evaluation. Such analysis deals with determining the risk level as well as main risk factors. In the specific case, an insurance company is faced...

Chapter 39

Seamless Communication to Mobile Devices in Vehicular Wireless Networks (pages 769-788)

Kira Kastell

Vehicular networks are deployed as hybrid networks, which consist of a cooperation of different radio access networks. Seamless communication in vehicular networks relies on proper network planning and thorough dimensioning of...

Chapter 40

Threatening the Cloud: Securing Services and Data by Continuous, Model-Driven Negative Security Testing (pages 789-814)

Philipp Zech, Philipp Kalb, Michael Felderer, Ruth Breu

Today's increasing trend towards outsourcing IT landscapes and business processes into the Cloud is a double-edged sword. On the one side, companies can save time and money; however, on the other side, moving possible sensitive...

Chapter 41

Communication Networks to Connect Moving Vehicles to Transportation Systems to Infrastructure (pages 815-835)

Kira Kastell

Communication in transportation systems not only involves the communication inside a vehicle, train, or airplane but it also includes the transfer of data to and from the transportation system or between devices belonging to that...

Chapter 42

RETRA: Web Based Resource Allocation Tool for Emergency Management (pages 836-848)

Venkata S. Inampudi, Russell Kondaveti, Aura Ganz

In this paper, the authors introduce a real time web based tool for resource allocation (RETRA) that can assist the incident commanders and resource managers in the complex task of emergency resource deployment for multiple...

Chapter 43

Financial Software as a Service: A Paradigm for Risk Modelling and Analytics (pages 849-873)

Muthu Ramachandran, Victor Chang

Software as a service as one of the cloud delivery models that supports fine-grained components. Financial applications demand better performance and accuracy in a cloud than the traditional computing platforms. Therefore, designing...

Chapter 44

QoS-Aware Chain-Based Data Aggregation in Cooperating Vehicular Communication Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks (pages 874-896)

Zahra Taghikhaki, Yang Zhang, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul J.M. Havinga

Vehicular Communication Networks (VCNs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are emerging types of networks, which have individually been extensively explored. However, their cooperation and exploring advantages offered by their...

Chapter 45

Cloud Computing for Global Software Development: Opportunities and Challenges (pages 897-908)

Thamer Al-Rousan

The cloud computing paradigm offers an innovative and promising vision concerning Information and Communications Technology. Actually, it provides the possibility of improving IT systems management and is changing the way in which...

Chapter 46

An 802.11p Compliant System Prototype Supporting Road Safety and Traffic Management Applications (pages 909-926)

Helen C. Leligou, Periklis Chatzimisios, Lambros Sarakis, Theofanis Orphanoudakis, Panagiotis Karkazis, Theodore Zahariadis

During the last decades Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been attracting the interest of an increasing number of researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs, as well as citizens and civil authorities, since they can...

Chapter 47

Holistic and Law Compatible IT Security Evaluation: Integration of Common Criteria, ISO 27001/IT-Grundschutz and KORA (pages 927-946)

Daniela Simić-Draws, Stephan Neumann, Anna Kahlert, Philipp Richter, Rüdiger Grimm, Melanie Volkamer, Alexander Roßnagel

Common Criteria and ISO 27001/IT-Grundschutz are well acknowledged evaluation standards for the security of IT systems and the organisation they are embedded in. These standards take a technical point of view. In legally sensitive...

Chapter 48

Multi-System Integration Scheme for Intelligence Transportation System Applications (pages 947-962)

Chih-Chiang Kuo, Jyun-Naih Lin, Syue-Hua Wu, Cheng-Hsuan Cho, Yi-Hong Chu, Frank Chee Da Tsai

With more and more devices being introduced into vehicles to provide additional driving functionality, driving experience is seemingly getting more complex and frustrated due to an influx of individual messages. To help manage the...

Cases and Applications

Chapter 49

A Case Study for Business Integration as a Service (pages 964-989)

Victor Chang

This chapter presents Business Integration as a Service (BIaaS) to allow two services to work together in the Cloud to achieve a streamline process. The authors illustrate this integration using two services, Return on Investment...

Chapter 50

Decision Support Model for Fire Insurance Risk Analysis in a Petrochemical Case Study (pages 990-1004)

Hadis Z. Nejad, Reza Samizadeh

A decision support system was researched and applied to a case study in the petrochemical industry. The participants were an insurance company underwriting the policies of oil and gas refineries located in a major oil producing...

Chapter 51

Risk Analysis of Completion and Production Systems (pages 1005-1024)

Davorin Matanovic

A variety of definitions are available through the literature, but the universal one is in defining the well completion as the optimal path for the reservoir fluids to be produced. That means to achieve a desired production with...

Chapter 52

Teaching Case for Addressing Risks with Strategies in an International Airport Project (pages 1025-1043)

Daly Paulose

This is a case applying risk management, project management, and business strategy theories. The center piece is a successful build-own-operate (BOO) international airport mega-project completed in south-west India. This case study...

Chapter 53

A Survey of Visual Traffic Surveillance Using Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Mining (pages 1044-1063)

Chengcui Zhang

The focus of this survey is on spatio-temporal data mining and database retrieval for visual traffic surveillance systems. In many traffic surveillance applications, such as incident detection, abnormal events detection, vehicle...

Chapter 54

A Sensitivity Analysis of Critical Genetic Algorithm Parameters: Highway Alignment Optimization Case Study (pages 1064-1081)

Eungcheol Kim, Manoj K. Jha, Min-Wook Kang

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) have been applied in many complex combinatorial optimization problems and have been proven to yield reasonably good solutions due to their ability of searching in continuous spaces and avoiding local optima....

Chapter 55

Traffic Safety Implications of Travel Demand Management Policies: The Cases of Teleworking and Fuel Cost Increase (pages 1082-1107)

Ali Pirdavani, Tom Bellemans, Tom Brijs, Bruno Kochan, Geert Wets

Travel Demand Management (TDM) consists of a variety of policy measures that affect the transportation system's effectiveness by changing travel behavior. Although the primary objective to implement such TDM strategies is not to...

Chapter 56

Analysis of Passengers' Perception of Public Transport Quality and Performance (pages 1108-1124)

Yannis Tyrinopoulos, Constantinos Antoniou

This research investigates the passengers' level of satisfaction from the use of diverse public transport systems. The aim is to uncover factors that drive their modal choices and to assess the quality implications of the...

Chapter 57

Risk Analysis in the Process of Hydraulic Fracturing (pages 1125-1140)

Sonja Koščak Kolin, Marin Čikeš

This chapter focuses on risk to the environment from hydraulic fracturing operations, starting with transport of materials and ending when the well is routed to the production facilities. The initial assumption for the fracturing...

Chapter 58

Assessing Human Reliability Behaviour from Use of Technology for Ships Navigating within Coastal Water (pages 1141-1153)

Oladokun Sulaiman Olanrewaju

The traditional approach to the study of human factors in the maritime field involves the analysis of accidents without considering human factor reliability analysis. The main approaches being used to analyze human errors are...

Chapter 59

Using AIS Data for Navigational Risk Assessment in Restricted Waters (pages 1154-1163)

Adi Maimun, Istaz F. Nursyirman, Ang Yit Sian, Rahimuddin Samad, Sulaiman Oladokun

The Strait of Malacca is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. It averages 150 ship passes a day and more than 50,000 ships annually. With a high concentration of vessels in a narrow path, multiple risk situations...

Chapter 60

Analysis of Pedestrian Road Crossing Behaviour in Urban Areas (pages 1164-1179)

Eleonora Papadimitriou, George Yannis, John Golias

The objective of this research is the analysis of pedestrians behaviour along entire trips in urban road networks, with focus on their interaction with the traffic and the road environment while crossing roads. For this purpose, a...

Chapter 61

Applying the Safety and Environmental Risk and Reliability Model (SERM) for Malaysian Langat River Collision Aversion (pages 1180-1215)

Oladokun Sulaiman Olanrewaju, Ab Saman Ab Kader

Collision accident remains a big threat to coastal water transportation operation. Occurrence of a collision event exposes vessel owners and operators as well as the public to risk. The nature of the threat can be worrisome; it may...

Issues and Challenges

Chapter 62

General Approach to Risk Analysis (pages 1217-1236)

Davorin Matanovic

Broadly accepted methodology that is implemented in the oil industry when dealing with risks includes as the first step the identification of possible hazards. That is done by gathering information about degree of risk according to...

Chapter 63

Genre-Based Approach to Assessing Information and Knowledge Security Risks (pages 1237-1253)

Ali Mohammad Padyab, Tero Päivärinta, Dan Harnesk

Contemporary methods for assessing information security risks have adopted mainly technical views on information and technology assets. Organizational dynamics of information management and knowledge sharing have gained less...

Chapter 64

A Software Tool to support Risks Analysis about what Should or Should Not go to the Cloud (pages 1254-1278)

Miguel Torrealba S., Mireya Morales P., José M. Campos, Marina Meza S.

This chapter proposes a software prototype called 2thecloud, programmed in HTML and PHP under free software guidelines, whose main objective is to allow end users to be aware of imminent cloud dangers. To do this, the user must...

Chapter 65

The Integrative Time-Dependent Modeling of the Reliability and Failure of the Causes of Drivers' Error Leading to Road Accidents (pages 1279-1294)

Khashayar Hojjati-Emami, Balbir S. Dhillon, Kouroush Jenab

Nowadays, the human error is usually identified as the conclusive cause of investigations in road accidents. The human although is the person in control of vehicle until the moment of crash but it has to be understood that the human...

Chapter 66

Lost Circulation (pages 1295-1315)

Nediljka Gaurina-Medjimurec, Borivoje Pasic

Lost circulation is defined as the uncontrolled flow of mud into a thief zone and presents one of the major risks associated with drilling. The complete prevention of lost circulation is impossible, but limiting circulation loss is...

Chapter 67

Large-Scale Agent-Based Models for Transportation Network Management under Unplanned Events (pages 1316-1341)

Yunjie Zhao, Adel W. Sadek

The focus of this chapter is on issues surrounding the development and applications of large-scale agent-based traffic models. Following a brief overview of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) applications in transportation...

Chapter 68

Using Indicators to Monitor Security Risk in Systems of Systems: How to Capture and Measure the Impact of Service Dependencies on the Security of Provided Services (pages 1342-1377)

Olav Skjelkvåle Ligaarden, Atle Refsdal, Ketil Stølen

Systems of systems are collections of systems interconnected through the exchange of services. Their often complex service dependencies and very dynamic nature make them hard to analyze and predict with respect to quality in general...

Chapter 69

A Survey of Wireless Backhauling Solutions for ITS (pages 1378-1392)

Claudio Cicconetti, Raffaella Mambrini, Alessandro Rossi

The deployment of more sustainable land transportation is a non-debatable global issue. It is generally agreed that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will play the role of the main enabler to achieve the ambitious...

Chapter 70

Landslides: A Guide to Researching Landslide Phenomena and Processes (pages 1393-1428)

Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Željko Arbanas

Landslide research is an interdisciplinary field that primarily encompasses scientists from geomorphology, engineering geology, and geotechnical engineering in collaboration with researchers from such fields as geodesy, hydrogeology...

Chapter 71

WLAN Systems for Communication in Transportation Systems: Towards the Benefits of a Cooperative Vehicular Approach (pages 1429-1468)

Riccardo Scopigno

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) are wireless networks primarily meant to enforce vehicular safety. The incumbent international VANET solution is based on an adaptation of WLAN to the 5.9 GHz band and to the vehicular environment...

Chapter 72

Managing Risk in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Supply Chains' Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Approach (pages 1469-1489)

Mohd. Nishat Faisal

Supply chain risk management (SCRM) is the process of risk mitigation in supply chains achieved through collaboration, coordination and application of risk management tools among the partners, to ensure continuity coupled with...

Chapter 73

Workover Impact on Accidental Risk (pages 1490-1506)

Bojan Moslavac

Certain risks are very common to any application of a downhole control system during workover while others will be field-specific or at least increased or decreased by the given well conditions. Workover anomalies may be caused by...

Emerging Trends

Chapter 74

Evolution of Security Engineering Artifacts: A State of the Art Survey (pages 1508-1562)

Michael Felderer, Basel Katt, Philipp Kalb, Jan Jürjens, Martín Ochoa, Federica Paci, Le Minh Sang Tran, Thein Than Tun, Koen Yskout, Riccardo Scandariato, Frank Piessens, Dries Vanoverberghe, Elizabeta Fourneret, Matthias Gander, Bjørnar Solhaug, Ruth Breu

Security is an important quality aspect of modern open software systems. However, it is challenging to keep such systems secure because of evolution. Security evolution can only be managed adequately if it is considered for all...

Chapter 75

Adding Electric Vehicle Modeling Capability to an Agent-Based Transport Simulation (pages 1563-1600)

Rashid A. Waraich, Gil Georges, Matthias D. Galus, Kay W. Axhausen

Battery-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles are envisioned by many as a way to reduce CO2 traffic emissions, support the integration of renewable electricity generation, and increase energy security. Electric vehicle...

Chapter 76

A Threat Table Based Assessment of Information Security in Telemedicine (pages 1601-1613)

John C. Pendergrass, Karen Heart, C. Ranganathan, V. N. Venkatakrishnan

Information security within healthcare is paramount and telemedicine applications present unique security challenges. Technology is giving rise to new and advanced telemedicine applications and understanding the security threats to...

Chapter 77

A New Method for Writing Assurance Cases (pages 1614-1632)

Yutaka Matsuno, Shuichiro Yamamoto

In this paper, the authors present a new method for writing assurance cases. Assurance cases are documented bodies of evidence that provide a convincing and valid argument that a system is adequately dependable for a given...

Chapter 78

TraffCon: An Innovative Vehicle Route Management Solution Based on IEEE 802.11p Sparse Roadside-Vehicle Networking (pages 1633-1666)

Kevin Collins, Gabriel-Miro Muntean

Traffic congestion is a major issue in the modern society, and unfortunately, it continues to worsen as the number of cars on the road grows behind the ability of existing road infrastructures to cope. Additionally, vehicle fuel...

Chapter 79

A Novel Distributed QoS Control Scheme for Multi-Homed Vehicular Networks (pages 1667-1685)

Hamada Alshaer, Thierry Ernst, Arnaud de La Fortelle

Resource availability in vehicular mobile networks fluctuates due to wireless channel fading and network mobility. Multi-homed mobile networks require a Quality-of-Service (QoS) control scheme that can select a routing path to...

Chapter 80

A New Design of Intelligent Traffic Signal Control (pages 1686-1702)

Fatemeh Daneshfar, Javad RavanJamJah

Dynamic traffic signal control in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) recently has received increasing attention. This paper proposed an adaptive and cooperative multi-agentfuzzy system for a decentralized traffic signal control....

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