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Pojani, Dorina (author), Stead, D. (author)
The concept of Transit-Oriented Development—development near, and/or oriented to, mass transit facilities—has generated much interest in Europe over the last decade. Coined in the United States in the 1990s, the term “TOD” is frequently assumed to be a recent American import and a reaction to the consequences of mass motorization and sprawl....
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van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Roggema, Rob (author), Tillie, Nico (author), Broersma, S. (author), Fremouw, M.A. (author), Martin, C.L. (author)
Many cities across the world have the ambition of becoming carbon neutral, but exact figures of progress toward that goal are limited. Regarding Europe’s not overly ambitious 2020 carbon emission targets, many countries still have a long way to go (see Fig. 1), with cities as the prime objects for improvement. It is fair to say that the energy...
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Chan, Faith (author), Stead, D. (author)
Many Chinese cities are increasingly exposed to the impacts of climate change, particularly to flooding. The National Sponge City Program was set up to address this challenge. This chapter examines how municipal interventions in spatial planning have been formulated in response to this national program. The case of Guangzhou is examined, a mega...
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Cila, N. (author), Ferri, Gabriele (author)
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Segarra, Santiago (author), Chepuri, S.P. (author), Marques, Antonio G. (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author)
Stationarity is a cornerstone property that facilitates the analysis and processing of random signals in the time domain. Although time-varying signals are abundant in nature, in many contemporary applications the information of interest resides in more irregular domains that can be conveniently represented using a graph. This chapter reviews...
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Groves, R.M. (author)
The new generation of civil aircraft, including the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787, are composed of composite materials for their primary aircraft structures. This presents a challenge for airline maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) operations in both the short- and long-term. In the short-term, new technologies are needed for maintenance,...
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Squires, G (author), Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author), Peiser, R (author)
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Rocco, Roberto (author), van Ballegooijen, J.J. (author)
Many countries in the Global South are relatively young democracies. The resilience and legitimacy of their political systems rely largely on their ability to integrate and represent millions of citizens who are ‘excluded’ from formal social, political, and economic structures. Exclusion from those formal structures has deep-reaching...
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Triggianese, M. (author)
Stations as landmarks, districts and transfer machines.
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Pangbourne, Kate (author), Stead, D. (author), Mladenović, M. (author), Milakis, D. (author)
This chapter provides a reflective critique of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), an emerging development seeking a role within the Smart Mobility paradigm. We assess a range of its future implications for urban policymakers in terms of governance and sustainability (i.e., social and environmental impacts). We begin by describing the origins of the...
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Simons, L.P.A. (author), van den Heuvel, Wouter A.C. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)
Within groups that are starting a healthy lifestyle intervention together, there is potential for social e-support, as an addition to individual coaching. However, the support technology should be low-tech, low-threshold and preferably already omnipresent. A WhatsApp group was chosen as support tool, given the large variety of groups normally...
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Zhang, L. (author), Landucci, Gabriele (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Ovidi, Federica (author), Khakzad, N. (author), Zhou, Jianfeng (author)
The propagation of accidents among process units may cause amplification of accident magnitude, resulting in a domino effect chain. Several catastrophic accidents occurred in the process and chemical industry presented these features. Hence, research efforts have been given to the analysis of the domino effects in order to enhance prevention...
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Misuri, Alessio (author), Khakzad, N. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Cozzani, Valerio (author)
Before the tragedy of 9/11, the perception of risk in process plants was mainly focused on accidental events caused by technical failures, human errors or natural events. However, since then, the risk of deliberate actions against process facilities - also known as security risk - has also become a concern. Security risk assessment of...
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Loibl, Wolfgang (author), Bach, Brigitte (author), Zucker, Gerhard (author), Agugiaro, G. (author), Palensky, P. (author), Schmidt, Ralf Roman (author), Basciotti, Daniele (author), Brunner, Helfried (author)
This chapter describes ICT solutions for planning, maintaining and assessing urban energy systems. There is no single urban energy system, but - like the city itself - a system of sub-systems with different scales, spatially ranging from buildings to blocks, districts and to the city, temporally ranging from real time data to hourly, daily,...
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Anthopoulos, Leonidas (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Weerakkody, Vishanth (author)
Smart cities have attracted an extensive and emerging interest from both science and industry with an increasing number of international examples emerging from all over the world. However, despite the significant role that smart cities can play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has been being criticized for not being able to...
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Benhaïem, Pierre (author), Schmehl, R. (author)
The study proposes a new airborne wind energy system based on the carousel concept. It comprises a rotary ring kite and a ground-based rotating reel conversion system. The moment generated by the ring kite is transferred by several peripheral tethers that connect to winch modules that are mounted on the ground rotor. A generator is coupled to...
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Faggiani, P. (author), Schmehl, R. (author)
The development of airborne wind energy is steadily progressing towards the market introduction of the technology. Even though the physical foundations of the various conversion concepts are well understood, the actual economic potential of distributed small-scale and centralized large-scale power generation under realworld conditions is...
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Hiteva, Ralitsa (author), Ives, Matthew (author), Weijnen, M.P.C. (author), Nikolic, I. (author)
This chapter explores potential ways to implement, and benefits for policymaking of, the complementary use of two different types of modelling for analysing residential energy consumption and ethnographic research. The more traditional approach of techno-economic modelling is considered alongside agent-based modelling that incorporates both...
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Agbemuko, Adedotun (author), van Meurs, Johannes (author), van Driel, W.D. (author)
This chapter gives an extensive overview into the nature of the environment that luminaires and thus LEDs are subjected to during the event of a lightning stroke. Direct lightning stroke almost always results in instant damage for low-voltage connected devices, except in “extraordinary circumstances” where random components may survive. This is...
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Guldenmund, F.W. (author)
“Few things are so sought after and yet so little understood.” With this pithy statement, psychologist James Reason expressed the potential value but also the elusiveness of this complex social-scientific concept twenty years ago (Reason, Managing the risks of organizational accidents. Ashgate, Aldershot, 1997). Culture had been on the mind of...
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