Intelligent Freight Transportation
Published on 24. March 2008
344 pages
978-0-8493-0774-4 (ISBN)
Description
Increasing capacity at ports and goods movement in the supply chain in general, while also satisfying environmental, economic, political, labor union, and other constraints is, arguably, the greatest challenge of modern transportation. With space at a premium and costs through the roof, it is increasingly obvious that the traditional solutions are
Reviews / Votes
"... addresses aspects of most of the issues affecting throughput for very large container ports. ... well organized, flowing from an introduction to the automation of terminals, then inland terminals as adjuncts to marine seaport terminals, followed by pieces related to container movement logistics."-Kevin Horn, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2011), p. 117-119More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Industrial engineers in supply chain management, logistics, distribution control, and inventory control; civil engineers in transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems, and port engineering.
Illustrations
76 s/w Abbildungen, 45 s/w Tabellen, 8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
76 b/w images, 45 tables, 8 halftones and 97 equations
File size
17,24 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8493-0774-4 (9780849307744)
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Intelligent Freight Transportation
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Intelligent Freight Transportation
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Person
Petros Ioannou received MS and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He is currently a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, director of the Center of Advanced Transportation. Technologies, and Associate director. for research of METRANS. He has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the International Journal of Control, Automatica, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Ioannou is currently associate editor-at-large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems. His research interests are in the areas of adaptive control, neural networks, nonlinear systems, vehicle dynamics and control, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and intelligent flight control. He is a fellow of IEEE, fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and author/coauthor of 8 books and over 150 research papers in the area of controls, neural networks, nonlinear dynamical systems, and ITS.
Content
Automated Container Terminals. Inland Port Concepts. Truck Dispatching and Routing. Advanced Container Technologies. Empty Container Reuse. Port Security: Container Inspection Concepts and Technologies.
