With contributions from experts, this book presents techniques and technologies to boost capacity, reduce cost, and improve efficiency transportation systems. It discusses ports and container terminals, how they interact with surface transportation, and related security issues. It covers fully automated containers, explains cost and performance analysis, and examines new strategies for empty container reuse, truck routing, and dispatching to meet time constraints for service. Additional topics include container terminals of the future, advanced processing technologies, and the gate appointment system. It examines labor union issues and environment issues associated with ports, ships, and the logistics chain.
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Transportation Engineering
Intelligent Systems
Systems & Control Engineering
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Professional

There is an emerging interest in the area of modeling and control of complex systems for applications in many engineering and non-engineering fields such as biology, transportation, robotics, information technology, and communications. This text provides a pioneering, single-source compilation of material from internationally renowned experts with different approaches to the applications of modeling and control of complex systems. Sections cover complex systems, biological systems, communication networks, sensor networks and automation, autonomous vehicles and robotics, transportation systems and structures, and others. The authors highlight the most important areas of research, the latest advances, and possible future directions.
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Systems & Controls
Transportation Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
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Professional

1ª edición.