Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Growth of International Business.

International business the new realities

Part 1: Foundation Concepts Chapter 1. Introduction: What Is International Business? Chapter 2. Globalization of Markets and the Internationalization of the Firm Chapter 3. Organizational Participants that Make International Business Happen...

International Business: Competing in the Global Market Place

Part One-Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: Globalization Case: Who Makes the Apple iPhone? Part Two-Country Differences Chapter 2: National Differences in Political Economy Chapter 3: Political Economy and Economic Development Chapter 4:...

International Business

The third edition of International Business offers an action-focused, practical approach to the topic, helping students understand the global business environment and its repercussions for executives. The book provides thorough coverage of ...

Innovation and international business

While classical economic theories of growth emphasised international capital accumulation, and finance-based theories of foreign investment stressed international interest rate differentials and risk reduction, the technological accumulatio...

International Business

It is difficult to trace the origins of international business (IB) activity in Greece. Fragmentation of research, lack of documented and centrally stored evidence and practical limitations do not allow us to understand exactly the ‘when’ a...

The ethics of international business

Globalization, technology and the increasing importance of business contribute to a growing public demand for corporate responsibility.The global transactions are nowadays at the crossroads due to the fundamental changes that take place in ...

An Integrated Decision Support Model for Evaluating Public Transport Quality

Big cities suffer from serious complex problems such as air pollution, congestion, and traffic accidents. Developing public transport quality in such cities is considered an efficient remedy to obviate these critical issues. This paper aims...

ECONOMIC AND LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

Purpose. In Ukraine, as in many countries of the world, transport is one of the most fundamental sectors of the national economy, important part of the industrial and social spheres. But in the conditions of industry reforming there are pro...

The Economic Impact of Environmentally Sustainable Transport in Germany

The economic assessment of the Environmentally Sustainable Transportation (EST) scenarios developed throughout this paper are part of Phase 3 of the overall project, which is on social and economic assessment and on devising packages of ins...

Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements

The Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements will contain technical and professional articles on the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of airport, roadway and other pavement systems. Specific topics ...

Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems

The Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems contains technical and professional engineering articles on the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of air, highway, rail, and urban transportation systems an...

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

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 ...

Control Strategies, Economic Benefits, and Challenges of Vehicle-to-Grid Applications: Recent Trends Research

With the rapid growth in the number of EVs, a huge number of EVs are connected to the power grid for charging, which places a great amount of pressure on the stable operation of the power grid. This paper focuses on the development of V2G a...

Hydrogen-powered drives of the rail vehicles (part 1)

The paper presents the reasons for launching the efforts aimed at implementing the lowemission rail vehicles. A short history of development of the hydrogen-powered drive solutions is described. It has been pointed out that implementation o...

Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Engineering

Since the initial “Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Engineering” conference in 1989, numerous examples of advanced technology applications have appeared. The need for such applications has grown, especially with conti...

International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Transportation Engineering, held in Chengdu, China, July 25-27, 2009. Sponsored by China Communications and Transportation Association; the Transportation and Development Institute of AS...

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Transportation Engineering

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an enormous global disruption with immense economic, environmental, and social impacts throughout the world. Only world wars and the flu pandemic of 1918 are comparable in the wide range of consequences, inclu...

Transportation engineering: an introduction

1. Transportation as a System. 2. Transportation Economics. 3. The Land Use/Transportation System. 4. Vehicle and Human Characteristics. 5. Traffic Flow Characteristics. 6. Geometric Design of Highways. 7. Highway Capacity. 8. Intersection ...

Transportation Engineering

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...