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This book presents select proceedings of the 13th Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation and Environment (APTE 2024), focusing on a range of emerging topics related to transportation and the environment. The topics covered here include sustainable transportation across various modes of transport, transportation safety, sustainable transport infrastructures in a circular economy, electric and connected autonomous vehicles, policies interfacing transport, energy, and environment, among others. The book can be a valuable reference for researchers and professionals interested in sustainable transportation.
List of contents
Part 1: Transportation Economics, Policy and Financing.- Chapter 1: Strengthening Electric Vehicle Regulation for Climate Control and Renewable Energy Use in Indonesia.- Chapter 2: Impact of Road Sector Investment on the Economic Growth: A Review of Road Sector in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 3: Conceptual Comparison of Electric and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles: Electricity Tariff and Fuel Cost-based Analysis for Sri Lanka.- Chapter 4: Research on High-speed Rail Pricing Considering Passengers' Travel Choice Behavior Based on Reinforcement Learning.- Chapter 5: A Moving Forest Model to Predict Highway Annual Maintenance Cost using Time-Series Data.- Chapter 6: International Review of Transport Policy Instruments of different cities through the Equity Lens.- Part 2: Transport Planning and Operations.- Chapter 7: Evaluations of Traffic Impacts from Road Works of Light Rail Transit.- Chapter 8: Impact of Urban Air Mobility on Urban Commuting and Traffic Congestion: A Case Study of Shenzhen.- Chapter 9: A Study on the Impact of the Newly Constructed Metro Rail in Dhaka on Travel Behavior.- Chapter 10: Investigating the Impact of Motorcycle Driving Patterns on Urban Traffic.- etc.
About the author
Dr. Ghim Ping Ong is Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore. He received his B.Eng. (Civil) (First Class Honors) with a minor in Business and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the National University of Singapore. His research interests include sustainable pavements for a circular economy and multimodal transport infrastructures and operations, with emphasis on future mega-transport infrastructures/operations, such as car-lite/car-free towns, next-generation seaports and airports. Dr Ong received several scientific awards in recognition to his achievements in transportation research, including the Alfred Noble Prize (ASCE), the Hanjin Prize (IAME), the inaugural Takeuchi Yoshio Award (OCDI), the inaugural iSMARTi Early Career Award, and the iSMARTi Achievement Award.
Dr. Kaidi Yang is Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore. He received his B.Eng. (Automation), B.Sc. (Dual in Pure and Applied Mathematics), M.Sc. in Control Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (specialized in transportation) from ETH Zurich. His research interests include transportation, operations research, and robotics, with focus on intelligent transportation systems. Dr Yang received the best paper award from OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science.
Summary
This book presents select proceedings of the 13th Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation and Environment (APTE 2024), focusing on a range of emerging topics related to transportation and the environment. The topics covered here include sustainable transportation across various modes of transport, transportation safety, sustainable transport infrastructures in a circular economy, electric and connected autonomous vehicles, policies interfacing transport, energy, and environment, among others. The book can be a valuable reference for researchers and professionals interested in sustainable transportation.
