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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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Merideth Kelliher, Diana Bogueva and Dora Marinova
Although Australia remains committed to the Paris Agreement and to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, it was late in joining the 2021 Global Methane Pledge. Finding suitable methane (CH4) mitigation solutions for Australia?s livestock industry should...
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Zhenxian Peng, Zhonglian Jiang, Xiao Chu and Jianglong Ying
As an important mode of transportation for the global trade, waterborne transportation has become a priority option for import and export trade due to its large load capacity and relatively low cost. Meanwhile, shipping safety has been highly valued. By ...
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Alessandro Nalin, Andrea Simone, Claudio Lantieri, Umberto Rosatella, Giulio Dondi and Valeria Vignali
The need for clear and updated information is pivotal when authorities plan and perform routinary, periodic and emergency maintenance of both road network and their roadside assets, e.g., curbs, signals, and barriers. With particular regard to road barri...
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Xiaoyu Yuan, Chengchang Tong, Guoxiang He and Hongbo Wang
In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence algorithms has promoted the intelligent transformation of the ship industry; unmanned surface vessels (USVs) have become a widely used representative product. The dynamic window approach (...
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Yang Liu, Huajun Zhang, Yu Zhan, Kunxiang Deng and Liangzhi Dong
Cruise ships are large and complex, and it is difficult to manually make a plan to evacuate people to safe areas in a short time. Evacuation time and personnel safety are both important for emergency evacuation. This paper proposes an evacuation strategy...
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Weipeng Zhang, Bo Zhao, Liming Zhou, Jizhong Wang, Conghui Qiu, Kang Niu and Fengzhu Wang
The combine harvester is the main machine for fieldwork during the harvest season. When the harvester fails and cannot continue to work, this indirectly affects the harvest time and the yield in the field. The emergency maintenance service of agricultura...
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Jie-Lun Chiang, Chia-Ming Kuo and Leila Fazeldehkordi
The complex and extensive mechanism of landslides and their direct connection to climate change have turned these hazards into critical events on a global scale, which can have significant negative influences on the long-term sustainable development of n...
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Dániel Balla, Marianna Zichar, Emoke Kiss, György Szabó and Tamás Mester
The provision of webGIS-based water quality data services has become a priority area for both the public and administrative sectors in the context of the pandemic emergency associated with the global spread of COVID-19. Current geographic, monitoring and...
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Peter Jankovic and Ludmila Jáno?íková
This paper deals with optimizing the location of ambulance stations in a two-tiered emergency medical system in an urban environment. Several variants of station distribution are calculated by different mathematical programming models and are evaluated b...
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