Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a public transportation mode, in which small automated vehicles transport passengers on demand. Central control of the vehicles leads to interesting possibilities for optimized routings. The complexity of the involved routing problems together with the fact that...

This article describes how in the VANET environment, routes are broken owing to node mobility. Moreover, the usage of wireless links for data communication leads to inherent unreliability and are error prone. Single path routing uses a prediction mechanism to compute a reliable path considering...

The network performance of an adaptive router largely depends on well designed selection strategy. The selection function selects one of the accepted output directions returned by the routing function. The effectiveness of any selection strategy relies on its congestion free traffic distribution...

The emergence of the “sustainable development” concept as a response to the mining of natural resources for the benefit of multinational corporations has advanced the cause of long-term environmental management. A sustainable development model (SDM) framework that is inclusive of the...

Selecting the appropriate firm is of paramount importance especially when using a unique delivery method such as construction management at risk. In addition to general contracting services, the construction management at risk firm provides construction management services throughout the design...