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This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to synthesise walking and health in cities around the globe. Walking as a research area is multifaceted and this book presents chapters which synthesise the current state of research and practice, which will be of interest to readers, both academic and professional, and point to areas that will feature prominently in future research domains. Although the links between transport and health have long been recognised in the transport and health disciplines separately, it is a fairly recent phenomenon that they have been seen as a legitimate inter- and multi-disciplinary area. The areas of intersection have become more obvious with better understanding between the different disciplines with mutual and explicit understanding that great benefits come from recognising synergies between disciplinary approaches to similar problems. The connections between walking and health have benefited from a better understanding of the contributions of different disciplines.This book exploits this multidisciplinary approach.

Walking. --- Choice of transportation. --- Modal choice in transportation --- Modal split (Transportation) --- Modes of transport --- Transport modes --- Transportation, Choice of --- Travel modes --- Traffic estimation --- Traffic surveys --- Transportation --- Pedestrianism --- Aerobic exercises --- Animal locomotion --- Athletics --- Human locomotion --- Transport planning & policy. --- General.

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This book is a new chapter in the continuing focus of the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences (ISCTSC) on maintaining and improving the quality of data collection in transport surveys. The papers extend discourse on broad topic areas that have been addressed by the ISCTSC in previous conferences, provide an update on travel survey initiatives currently under way in many countries, and offer a glimpse into the future in the form of changing contexts, new topics, new technologies, and new standards from around the world, with an emphasis on standards and future research directions. This book is not a conference proceedings, but was derived from papers that were a part of the 7th International Conference on Travel Survey Methods, held at Playa Herradura, Costa Rica, during August 2004. All of the chapters were reviewed by three referees and only those papers that achieved the highest ratings were selected for inclusion in this book. The conference covered both passenger and freight transport, and focused on surveys that collect information directly from individuals or organisations (that is, it excluded traffic counts or other observational data collection).Delegates attended from North, Central, and South America, Europe, Asia, Australasia and Africa, so there was a keen interest in examining applicability of standards and looking at needed future research in regions outside of the North American/Western European context. This content extends discourse on existing topics, provides an update on current travel survey initiatives, and reflects on the future of the discipline. This book is derived from papers that were a part of the 7th International Conference on Travel Survey Methods. Authors come from diverse backgrounds throughout the world.

Animal cell biotechnology. --- Tissue engineering. --- Biomedical engineering --- Regenerative medicine --- Tissue culture --- Animal cells in biotechnology --- Animal biotechnology --- Transportation --- Business & Economics --- Transport industries. --- Surveying. --- Choice of transportation --- Surveys --- Government surveys --- Mathematical geography --- Modal choice in transportation --- Modal split (Transportation) --- Modes of transport --- Transport modes --- Transportation, Choice of --- Travel modes --- Traffic estimation --- Traffic surveys --- General. --- Industries --- Transportation. --- Research --- Methodology

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"The MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) software project was started around 2006 with the goal of generating traffic and congestion patterns by following individual synthetic travelers through their daily or weekly activity programme. It has since then evolved from a collection of stand-alone C++ programs to an integrated Java-based framework which is publicly hosted, open-source available, automatically regression tested. It is currently used by about 40 groups throughout the world. This book takes stock of the current status. The first part of the book gives an introduction to the most important concepts, with the intention of enabling a potential user to set up and run basic simulations. The second part of the book describes how the basic functionality can be extended, for example by adding schedule-based public transit, electric or autonomous cars, paratransit, or within-day replanning. For each extension, the text provides pointers to the additional documentation and to the code base. It is also discussed how people with appropriate Java programming skills can write their own extensions, and plug them into the MATSim core. The project has started from the basic idea that traffic is a consequence of human behavior, and thus humans and their behavior should be the starting point of all modelling, and with the intuition that when simulations with 100 million particles are possible in computational physics, then behavior-oriented simulations with 10 million travelers should be possible in travel behavior research. The initial implementations thus combined concepts from computational physics and complex adaptive systems with concepts from travel behavior research. The third part of the book looks at theoretical concepts that are able to describe important aspects of the simulation system; for example, under certain conditions the code becomes a Monte Carlo engine sampling from a discrete choice model. Another important aspect is the interpretation of the MATSim score as utility in the microeconomic sense, opening up a connection to benefit cost analysis. Finally, the book collects use cases as they have been undertaken with MATSim. All current users of MATSim were invited to submit their work, and many followed with sometimes crisp and short and sometimes longer contributions, always with pointers to additional references. We hope that the book will become an invitation to explore, to build and to extend agent-based modeling of travel behavior from the stable and well tested core of MATSim documented here."

Urban transportation --- Traffic engineering --- Traffic flow --- Choice of transportation --- Transportation --- Multiagent systems. --- Computer simulation. --- Data processing. --- Forecasting --- Computer programs. --- Planning --- Agent-based model (Computer software) --- MASs (Multiagent systems) --- Multi-agent systems --- Systems, Multiagent --- Intelligent agents (Computer software) --- Public transportation --- Transport --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Modal choice in transportation --- Modal split (Transportation) --- Modes of transport --- Transport modes --- Transportation, Choice of --- Travel modes --- Traffic estimation --- Traffic surveys --- Traffic volume --- Highway capacity --- Traffic density --- City transportation --- Metropolitan transportation --- Municipal transportation --- Transportation, Urban --- City planning --- Urban policy --- Economic aspects

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Wetland Systems to Control Urban Runoff integrates natural and constructed wetlands, and sustainable drainage techniques into traditional water and wastewater systems used to treat surface runoff and associated diffuse pollution. The first part of the text introduces the fundamentals of water quality management, and water and wastewater treatment. The remaining focus of the text is on reviewing treatment technologies, disinfection issues, sludge treatment and disposal options, and current case studies related to constructed wetlands applied for runoff and diffuse pollution treatment.

Constructed wetlands. --- Urban runoff. --- Water --- Watershed management. --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Environmental Management --- Purification --- Biological treatment. --- Environmental Protection. --- Urban snowmelt runoff --- Urban stormwater runoff --- Runoff --- Sewage --- Urban hydrology --- Artificial marshes --- Artificial wetlands --- Constructed tidal marshes --- Constructed wastewater treatment wetlands --- Engineered wetlands --- Man-made wetlands --- Reed bed systems --- Wastewater wetlands --- Wetlands --- Bioremediation --- Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors --- Watershed development --- Watersheds --- Ecosystem management --- Biological treatment --- Management --- Choice of transportation --- Surveys --- Government surveys --- Mathematical geography --- Modal choice in transportation --- Modal split (Transportation) --- Modes of transport --- Transport modes --- Transportation, Choice of --- Travel modes --- Traffic estimation --- Traffic surveys --- Transportation --- Research --- Methodology --- E-books