Advanced Software Design and Standards for Traffic Control
Improved traffic traffic management and control systems are widely reported to be cost effective investments [Neudorff 88, Kessmann 85]. However, many hardware and software obstacles have...
Computer Aided Engineering Analysis for Transportation Links ? Management Options
CAD applications on Engineering Analysis have proved very effective in view of its wide applicability & the conceptualization power of interactive computer graphics (ICG). Transportation...
Dynamic Route Guidance?The Drive Project CAR-GOES
The DRIVE project CAR-GOES has studied strategies for integrating road traffic management and central systems for dynamic route guidance and traffic signal control. This paper summarises...
Car Wars?The DOTs Strike Back
HNTB is developing integrated computer systems utilizing standard hardware and software platforms coupled with graphical user interfaces for traffic management systems (TMS). Rapid, user-friendly...
Contact-Free IC Cards for New Railway Ticket Systems
Two types of smart cards which can communicate with an automatic gate machine without contact are developed. The first one uses medium wave radio as communication media. The microprocessor...
Fault-Tolerant Computing Architecture for MF 88 and MP 89 Rolling Stock
For several years now, the French and the foreign railway industries have witnessed the development of a new generation of on-board computer systems for rolling stock. It mainly features...
Marina Development in the 1990s, United Kingdom
The development of marinas in the United Kingdom during the last 30 years is traced, with emphasis placed on the current trends. Implementation of the new 'village harbor...
Performance Specifications for Floating Docks
The paper reflects the lessons learned by the writer thru involvement with the floating dock industry since the middle 1960's as both a manufacturer and a consultant. Sections...
Marine Architecture and the Maritime Village
This paper discusses the types of planning, architecture and urban form appropriate to a maritime village. It outlines the design principles of waterside development and advocates the...
Space Saving Dry-Stack Boat Storage Facility
Given sales and demographic data of recreational boating, urban dry-stack marinas will be the trend of the future where there is no room to expand. This paper describes a modern automated...
California Department of Transportation Seismic Retrofit Program: The Prioritization and Screening Process
Following the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, the California Department of Transportation was designated as the lead agency to seismically retrofit all 23000+ public owned bridges...
Tactical Aircraft and Airfield Recovery
This article is based on Captain Bahm's Master's thesis and was co-authored by his thesis advisor, Captain Polasek. The article is reprinted from the Airpower...
Prediction of Airfield Pavement Responses Using Transfer Functions
A methodology is presented which will aid in the evaluation and maintenance of airfield pavements. Predictions of an airfield pavement's behavior to multiple types and magnitudes...
DFW Pavement Management System Implementation
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is implementing a comprehensive pavement management program to assist them in identifying and prioritizing maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction...
Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Engineering
This proceedings,
Geotechnical Engineering Congress?1991
This proceedings,
Lifeline Earthquake Engineering
This proceedings,
Time Management for Engineers and Constructors
This book is the first in a series which focuses on engineers' management needs. It presents time management principles for the practicing engineer and constructor, in a concise,...
ASCE Salary Survey 1991
The 21st biennial ASCE salary survey of the engineering profession conducted by the ASCE Committee on Employment Conditions during the first half of 1991 is presented. It consists of an...
Knowledge Acquisition in Civil Engineering
Expert systems are an intriguing approach for transferring valuable problem-solving skills from the minds of human experts to the logic of computer programs. For the past several years,...
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