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Transportation and the environment : assessments and sustainability /
"This new book takes a nuanced look at building a sustainable transportation infrastructure and provides an overview of the harmful effect of various modes of transportation on the environment. The environmental impact of transportation is significant. Transportation is a major user of energy,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakville, ON ; Waretown, NJ, USA :
Apple Academic Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Some considerations on the environmental impact of highway traffic / Constantin-Cristian Stroe, Valeriu Nicolae Panaitescu, Marco Ragazzi, Elena Cristina Rada, and Gabriela Ionescu
- Design of local roadway infrastructure to service sustainable energy facilities / Karim A. Abdel Warith, Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos, Wayne Richardson, Jon D. Fricker, and John E. Haddock
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through strategic management of highway pavement roughness / Ting Wang, John Harvey, and Alissa Kendall
- Infrastructure and automobile shifts: positioning transit to reduce life-cycle environmental impacts for urban sustainability goals / Mikhail Chester, Stephanie Pincetl, Zoe Elizabeth, William Eisenstein, and Juan Matute
- The use of regional advance mitigation planning (RAMP) to integrate transportation infrastructure impacts with sustainability: a perspective from the USA / James H. Thorne, Patrick R. Huber, Elizabeth O'Donoghue, and Maria J. Santos
- Quantifying the total cost of infrastructure to enable environmentally preferable decisions: the case of urban roadway design / Conrad A. Gosse and Andres F. Clarens
- Sustainable development and airport surface access: the role of technological innovation and behavioral change / Tim Ryley, Jaafar Elmirghani, Tom Budd, Chikage Miyoshi, Keith Mason, Richard Moxon, Imad Ahmed, Bilal Qazi, and Alberto Zanni
- Diesel internal combustion engine emissions measurements for methanol-based and ethanol-based biodiesel blends / Charalambos A. Chasos, George N. Karagiorgis, and Chris N. Christodoulou
- Electric cars: technical characteristics and environmental impacts / Eckard Helmers and Patrick Marx
- Investigated cold press oil extraction from non-edible oilseeds for future bio-jet fuels production / Xianhui Zhao, Lin Wei, James Julson, and Yinbin Huang
- An innovative path to sustainable transportation / Daniel Sperling.