"This book addresses safety and design for maintenance and reducing the factors that influence and degrade human performance and that provides technological advancements and emergent technologies that reduce the dependence on operator capabilities"--

Issues and Challenges in Transportation systems -- Human Factors for maintaining complex Transportation Systems -- Transportation Systems Safety -- Design for Maintenance Operations in Transportation systems -- Risk-based and condition-based maintenance -- Emergent Technologies in Maintenance...

Purpose: Contrary to the widely held belief in the linear positive effects of business relationships (BRELs) on performance outcomes, the authors posit that the quality of a manager's BRELs with a foreign business partner has an inverted curvilinear effect on managing challenges arising out of...