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Dinosaurs in transition? A conceptual exploration of local incumbents in the swiss and German energy transition

The understanding of incumbents' behaviour in sustainability transitions in the energy sector is gaining increasing scholarly attention. However, two key structural characteristics of many incumbents in the energy sector are hardly taken into account: they ...

2019

Couverture partagée, engendrer un espace public sur les rives du périphérique (Paris, F)

L'interaction entre Paris et ses communes voisines est entravée par l'accumulation de strates sur l'emprise des fortifications de 1841. La fragmentation la plus forte est produite par le boulevard périphérique, désormais au centre de l'agglomération. Son t ...

2017

A model of urban scaling laws based on distance dependent interactions

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Socio-economic related properties of a city grow faster than a linear relationship with the population, in a log–log plot, the so-called superlinear scaling. Conversely, the larger a city, the more efficient it is in the use of its infrastructure, leading ...

2017

Infrastructural Monuments on the Bosphorus

Derya Sancar

Istanbul, le Bosphore. Sa condition géographique unique offre un paysage spectaculaire le long d'un territoire vallonné qui divise la mégapole. Il expose le dégradé entre la côte naturelle au Nord et une extrême congestion au Sud. A l'origine espace de la ...

2016

Uncertainty Qualification in Large Civil Infrastructure

Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Replacing aging civil infrastructure is expensive and not sustainable. Certain civil infrastructure also are landmarks which cannot be replaced. Reserve capacity estimation is useful for decision making regarding repair and replacement of structures. We im ...

2016

Energy Challenges in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler

Energy needs at the global level are gigantic and steadily increasing while the need to reduce carbon emissions is vital if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. In the Global South, a large part of the population still lacks access to energy, whic ...

Springer International Publishing2015

A Bayesian Approach to Detect Pedestrian Destination-Sequences from WiFi Signatures

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Antonin Danalet

In recent years, interest in crowd dynamics and pedestrian modeling is reviving due to urban growth and its pressure on urban infrastructure. Crowd and pedestrian simulation is emerging as a tool for designing new infrastructures and optimizing the use of ...

2013

Planning of feeding station installment for electric urban public mass-transportation system

Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans, Bilge Atasoy, Tomas Robenek, Jingmin Chen

During the last few decades, environmental impact of the fossil fuel-based transportation infrastructure has led to renewed interest in electric transportation infrastructure, especially in urban public mass-transportation sector. Generally, electric buses ...

2013

The practical confrontation of engineers with a new design endeavour: The case of digital humanties

Frédéric Kaplan, Dominique Vinck

This chapter shows some of the practices of engineers use when they are confronted to completely new situations, when they enter into an emerging field where methods and paradigms are not yet stabilized. Following the engineers here would help to shed ligh ...

CRC Press2013

How do Transport Infrastructure and Policies Affect House Prices and Rents? Evidence from Athens, Greece

Dimitrios Efthymiou

The interaction between land use and transportation infrastructure is a topic that has been extensively researched and continues to be of interest as new underlying economic, infrastructure and environmental conditions emerge. In this research, the direct ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

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