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Development of the Cooperative Intelligent Transport System in Thailand: A Prospective Approach

Aroonrot Choosakun, Yaowapa Chaiittipornwong, Chunho Yeom • Infrastructures (2021)

Smart mobility is becoming an alternative technology of transportation development for today and the future. Thailand has applied the intelligent transport system (ITS) to improve traffic and transport services. The success of the project i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/infrastructures6030036

Urban Fear, Criminality and the Erosion of Intangible Cultural Access in Machala: A Critical Qualitative Content Analysis of Ecuadorian National Digital Press

Fernanda Tusa, Ignacio Aguaded, Santiago Tejedor • Heritage (2026)

This article examines how the Ecuadorian national digital press has represented the relationship between criminal violence, declining mobility, tourism contraction, and the erosion of intangible cultural access in Machala, Puerto Bolívar, a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/heritage9050187

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue • Routledge eBooks (2013)

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geogra...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203371183

Geographies of Disability

Brendan James Gleeson • Taylor & Francis eBooks (1988)

This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disabil...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203266182

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue, Claude Comtois, Brian Slack • Routledge eBooks (2016)

This expanded and revised fourth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. Aimed mainly at an und...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315618159

Economic Geography

Pierre‐Philippe Combes, Thierry Mayer, Jacques‐François Thisse • Princeton University Press eBooks (2008)

Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the latest research and methodologi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcm4h9k

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue • Routledge eBooks (2020)

This expanded and revised fifth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. Aimed mainly at an unde...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429346323

Inter-Firm Land Optimization and the Advancement of New Quality Productive Forces—Empirical Evidence Based on Micro-Enterprise Data

Yanzhi Liu, Jian Cheng, Cheng Li • Land (2025)

In the context of advancing new quality productive forces (NQP), the optimization of factor allocation is of critical importance. This study empirically examines how inter-firm land allocation affects the development of NQP and explores the...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/land14091923

Lysosome blockade induces divergent metabolic programs in macrophages and tumours for cancer immunotherapy

Jing Ma, Ruijuan Ma, Xueke Zeng, Liming Zhang et al. • Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research (2023)

Abstract Background Platinum-drugs based chemotherapy in clinic increases the potency of tumor cells to produce M2 macrophages, thus leading to poor anti-metastatic activity and immunosuppression. Lysosome metabolism is critical for cancer ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13046-023-02768-0

Tuning the effective spin-orbit coupling in molecular semiconductors

Sam Schott, Erik R. McNellis, Christian B. Nielsen, Hung-Yang Chen et al. • Nature Communications (2017)

Organic semiconductors with long spin lifetime hold promise for future spintronics devices that can process and store information. Here, Schottet al. perform a systematic study of the strength of spin-orbit coupling and its effect on spin l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15200

Partnership for large and small businesses in the development strategy of the industrialized region

Gennadiy Alexandrovich Gershanok, Dmitriy Gennadyevich Shishkin • Вестник Пермского университета: Серия Экономика (2019)

The article deals with the integration of large and small businesses in order to increase mutual effectiveness. Currently, large business, mainly in form of transnational and national corporations, is the foundation of the economy on a glob...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17072/1994-9960-2016-4-140-149

Integrating sensor data and GAN-based models to optimize medical university distribution: a data-driven approach for sustainable regional growth in Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Addas, Abdullah Addas, Muhammad Nasir Khan, Muhammad Tahir et al. • Frontiers in Education (2025)

IntroductionThe regional disparity in higher education access can only be met when there are strategies for sustainable development and diversification of the economy, as envisioned in Saudi Vision 2030. Currently, 70% of universities are c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1527337

Low-carbon urban transportation: Optimizing mechanical systems for sustainable electric bus and BRT deployment in Kampala

Ismail Kimuli, John Baptist Kirabira • Transportation Engineering (2026)

Kampala faces increasing congestion, air pollution, and dependence on fossil fuels, driven by widespread reliance on diesel minibuses and motorcycle taxis. Existing models—KAMPALA-TIMES, KLAP-TIMES, and GKMA-TIMES–CGE—show strong potential ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.treng.2025.100417

Reputation assessment mechanism for carpooling applications based on clustering user travel preferences

Athanasios Salamanis, Dionysios D. Kehagias, Dimitrios Tsoukalas, Dimitrios Tzovaras • International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology (2019)

One way to ensure sustainable and environmental friendly mobility is the use of less vehicles for carrying more passengers, and carpooling is a means to achieve this goal. One major concern in carpooling services is related to trust, as car...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2018.08.002

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on commuting

Takeru Shibayama, Fabian Sandholzer, Barbara Laa, Tadej Brezina • European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (2021)

We carried out an international online survey about changes in everyday mobility during the COVID-19 outbreak in 21 languages, collecting more than 11,000 responses from more than 100 countries. In this paper, we present our analysis about ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18757/ejtir.2021.21.1.5135

Transportation Engineering

Relly Victoria Petrescu, Raffaella mname Aversa, Antonio mname Apicella, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu • American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2017)

The shipments were absolutely necessary at all times, but still have polluted and damaged the environment. The technique of transport or the engineering of transport is the application of the principles of technology and scientific findings...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2017.685.702

Roots to roofs: Farmers' perceived socio-ecological impacts of converting mango orchards to urban areas in Multan, Pakistan

Zamam Hassan, Fawad Z.A. Khan, Adel S. Aldosary, Baqer Al-Ramadan et al. • Environmental Challenges (2024)

The process of urban growth often results in the conversion of agricultural spaces, including orchards. In Pakistan, Multan - widely known as the city of Mangoes - has seen exponential urban growth in the past couple of decades, resulting i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2024.100935