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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...

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.

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.

From transit systems to models: data representation and collection.

Book Chapter
Noekel, K., Gentile, G., Nathanail, E., & Fonzone, A. (2016)
From transit systems to models: data representation and collection. In G. Gentile, & K. Noekel (Eds.), Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems (235-284). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25082-3_5
This chapter deals with the data that form input and output of passenger route choice models. All information about supply and demand that is relevant to passenger route choic...

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
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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...

Solar radiation fundamentals and PV system components.

Book Chapter
Mohanty, P., Muneer, T., Gago, E. J., & Kotak, Y. (2015)
Solar radiation fundamentals and PV system components. In Solar Photovoltaic System Applications: A Guidebook for Off-Grid Electrification (7-47). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14663-8_2
Solar PV technology has emerged as one of the most matured and fast evolving renewable energy technologies and it is expected that it will play a major role in the future glob...

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...