Networks in Action

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Nathan H. Gartner, Gennaro Improta

This book provides recent research results on the most pertinent subjects for the development and the design of intelligent transportation systems and advanced transport telematics, including the following topics: dynamic traffic assignment models, dynamic route guidance methods, urban traffic management and control strategies, advanced traveller information systems, methods for congestion prediction and congestion pricing, queueing systems, etc. The book will be of particular interest to scientists, engineers and researchers that are involved in the development and application of advanced transportation technologies.

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Hans Holst, Åke Nygren, Roland Thord

The modern society is to a great extent characterized by a tremendous growth in transportation. The freedom to move is a central and fundamental human value. Transportation together with communication are the most important factors for increasing the level of mobility and human interaction. As mobility has increased an associated growth in health problems has been witnessed. The number of fatalities and serious injuries caused by road traffic is unacceptable. Great efforts have been made to reduce these figures and a downward trend has been visible in most countries. Still, a lot remains to be done. This collection of contributions by scientists and administrators presents some of the latest findings in the area of mobility and its relation to medical treatment, rehabilitation, public health and prevention.

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Charles K. Chui, Guanrong Chen

This book offers a self-contained, elementary and yet rigorous treatment of linear system theory and optimal control theory. Fundamental topics within this area are considered, first in the continuous-time and then in the discrete-time setting. Both time-varying and time-invariant cases are investigated. The approach is quite standard but a number of new results are also included, as are some brief applications. It provides a firm basis for further study and should be useful to all those interested in the rapidly developing subjects of systems engineering, optimal control theory and signal processing.

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Heiderose Kilper

The German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2009 explores the concept of spatial disparities, which has its roots in national spatial planning and spatial development policy, and discusses new spatial disparities in Europe. The scientific articles provide an overview of the process of formulating a European position on "territorial cohesion" and address some of the issues surrounding new spatial disparities at different levels in different European countries. This includes the transformation from the industrial to the knowledge society, the development of settlement structures, spatial patterns of suburbanisation processes, demographic transformation, and equal ecological living conditions in the European Union.