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Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective

Book Chapter
Davis, A. (2020)
Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective. In C. Curtis (Ed.), Handbook of Sustainable Transport (48-57). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900477.00016
Starting in an era where three quantifiable impacts of road transport were viewed as the sum total of impacts – casualties and air and noise pollution – from the embryo of the...

Institutional Influences on the Development of Urban Freight Transport Policies by Local Authorities

Book Chapter
Akgün, E. Z., & Monios, J. (2018)
Institutional Influences on the Development of Urban Freight Transport Policies by Local Authorities. In M. Kamargianni, & Y. Shiftan (Eds.), Preparing for the New Era of Transport Policies: Learning from Experience, (169-195). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2018.07.004
Urban freight transport (UFT) provides the last mile delivery of goods, return of unwanted or recyclable goods and the removal of waste. Despite such benefits, freight vehicle...

Efficiency assessment in transport service provision

Book Chapter
Merkert, R., & Cowie, J. (2017)
Efficiency assessment in transport service provision. In Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics, (251-268). London: Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.

Competition and complementarity in road freight: key drivers and consequences of a dominant market position

Book Chapter
Cowie, J. (2017)
Competition and complementarity in road freight: key drivers and consequences of a dominant market position. In Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics, (348-367). London: Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.

Container ports in Latin America: challenges in a changing global economy

Book Chapter
Wilmsmeier, G., & Monios, J. (2015)
Container ports in Latin America: challenges in a changing global economy. In P. Lee, & K. Cullinane (Eds.), Dynamic Shipping and Port Developments in the Globalized Economy, (11-52). Palgrave Macmillian. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514233_2
No abstract available.

A Competitive Analysis of Chinese Container Ports Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Book Chapter
Song, D., & Yeo, G. (2015)
A Competitive Analysis of Chinese Container Ports Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. In H. Haralambides (Ed.), Port Management, 339-359. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137475770_16
Over 20% of the world's container traffic occurs from Asian ports. China's entry into the market has significantly stimulated this process. Since China adopted its liberalised...

Performance of Solar PV Systems

Book Chapter
Muneer, T., & Kotak, Y. (2015)
Performance of Solar PV Systems. In Solar Photovoltaic System Applications (107-135). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14663-8_5
This chapter provides a review of the complete solar photovoltaic system that includes a discussion on the trends in manufacturing technology of the constituting components. T...

Identifying material, geographical and institutional mobilities in the global maritime trade system.

Book Chapter
Monios, J., & Wilmsmeier, G. (2015)
Identifying material, geographical and institutional mobilities in the global maritime trade system
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the variou...

Solar Energy Measurements

Book Chapter
Muneer, T., & Tham, Y. W. (2015)
Solar Energy Measurements. In Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, (1-34). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118985960.meh423
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recommended a standard terminology for various radiation fluxes and the classification of the associated instruments. The units...

Competition and co-operation in maritime logistics operations.

Book Chapter
Lee, E., & Song, D. (2015)
Competition and co-operation in maritime logistics operations. In C. Lee, & Q. Meng (Eds.), Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics: Making Global Supply Chains Effective (477-496). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11891-8_16
This chapter aims to examine environmental challenges that maritime logistics operators have recently faced with, and to investigate strategic ways that maritime logistics ope...