Peralta P. Fuel Efficiency in Transportation

NA Press, 2011. 231 p. ISBN:0309156076 9780309156073 The book focuses on fuel consumption because energy savings are directly related to the amount of fuel used. In contrast, fuel economy measures how far a vehicle will travel with a gallon of fuel. Because fuel consumption data indicate money saved on fuel purchases and reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, the book finds that vehicle stickers should provide consumers with fuel consumption d...

Final Report by H. LaFonlalne, Biomass Energy foundation, Int. Miami. Florida Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, DC, 2W72 This report has been reviewed In The Federal Emergency Management Agency and approved for publication. Approval does nal signify that Ihe conients necessarify \\\ views and policies of the Federal Emergency Managemenl Agency. Date Published: March 1989. 90 p. Approved for Public Release: Distribution Unlimited. A...

Elsevier / Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010. 240 p. ISBN:0080966780 Design greener, safer, and more cost-efficient vehicles using semi-active suspension systems Semi-active suspension systems promise weight efficiencies, cost savings, and higher safety and comfort compared to other types of electronically-controlled suspensions currently in use. With the growing emphasis on fuel economy, reduced CO2 emissions, and cost reductions for all vehicles, t...

Springer-Verlag, 2011. 257 p. ISBN 978-3-642-14260-4 Table of Contents Invited Lectures Achieving Europe-wide safety through technical harmonization Ralf Schweinsberg Open Proof for Railway Safety Software - A Potential Way-Out of Vendor Lock-in Advancing to Standardization, Transparency, and Software Security Klaus-R?diger Hase Formal Method and its Application on Train Operation Control System of Chinese high-speed Railway Tao Tang Towar...

TRB, NAS, 2011. 254 p. ISBN:9780309213257. TCRP (Transit Cooperative Research Program) Science Applications International Corporation; Federal Transit Administration; Transit Development Corporation. This Guidebook is designed to help those considering the deployment of, or conversion to, alternative fuel buses. The guidebook and life-cycle emissions model spreadsheet (FuelCost2) are intended to aide individuals who, while being quite knowledg...

TeNeues, 2004 p. 399 p. ISBN 10:3823845616 The automobile has always been as much about style as engineering, not simply a means of transportation but a status symbol meant to impress others and project the success of its owner. Car Design is a comprehensive collection of photographs from European, Japanese, and American automobile advertising campaigns of the last fifty years. Lavishly illustrated with over 400 color and black and white photos...

Cambridge University Press, 2011. 274 p. ISBN:0521192889 This book is a comprehensive and objective guide to understanding hydrogen as a transportation fuel. The effects that pursuing different vehicle technology development paths will have on the economy, the environment, public safety and human health are presented with implications for policy makers, industrial stakeholders and researchers alike. Using hydrogen as a fuel offers a possible so...

Springer, 2011. 294 p. ISBN:1441998039; ISBN:978-1-4419-9803-3 Over the last two centuries, the development of modern transportation has significantly transformed human life. The main theme of this book is to understand the complexity of transportation development and model the process of network growth including its determining factors, which may be topological, morphological, temporal, technological, economic, managerial, social or political....