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Thinking of a New Parking Paradigm
Published in Amalendu Chatterjee, Autonomous and Integrated Parking and Transportation Services, 2019
Prof. D. Shoup was the first author to highlight parking problems in big cities in his first book, The High Cost of Free Parking. He and his other colleagues articulated very well the problem of having too many parking spaces (lack of proper planning data) and a solution approach in his second book, Parking and the City: elimination of off-street parking (otherwise known as PARCS) in favor of on-street parking with fair prices. Both of his books have been accepted by the parking community as a benchmark for improving the industry. In addition, many articles in the Parking Professional Magazine, the National Parking Association (NPA) Magazine, and Parking Today shed light on different aspects of the industry. As indicated earlier, every new traditional vehicle adds three to five parking spaces in the urban district, eroding prime land for urban housing and other economic development.8 On-street parking is biased towards the rich who can pay high prices and fines. Daily on-street and off-street parking competition leads to vehicles cruising for open spaces. In my opinion, none of the solutions goes far enough or is given national importance. A standardized uniform solution must be found. I contend that the process (no meter and no gate) I propose will address their third theory, ‘Spend the Parking Revenue to Improve Public Services on the Metered Street’ differently or more elegantly for more revenues with many new services. In an article, ‘No Meter and No Gate: Auto ID Like Automated Toll Services?’, published in Parking Today (October 2018), I rationalize other details to debate their arguments. In May 2018, I proposed ‘A Legacy on Renewable Energy in NC’ in an article in Triangle Business Journal, North Carolina. The same idea was highlighted by Jim Warren of North Carolina Warn (News & Observer article, August 6, 2018). In my hypothesis, I extend the idea of renewable energy for consolidated open spaces in accommodating electric vehicles (EVs) and energy self-sustainability. Other modern technologies that integrate total transportation services may also be considered so that how we park becomes a national pride not today’s daily drag. This will also help state and local legislators to be proactive in introducing progressive transportation policies in addition of cash incentives to attract big corporations such as Amazon, Apple, etc. to North Carolina or other states. My article, ‘A Fully Automated Future Transportation System Surrounding Research Triangle Park (RTP) – A Case Study’, published in the Parking Professional Magazine (November 2018), describes the strategy in detail.
Influence of fatty acid composition on process optimization and characteristics assessment of biodiesel produced from waste animal fat
Published in Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2020
Gokul Raghavendra Srinivasan, Vijayalakshmi Shankar, Sreekanth Chandra Sekharan, Mamoona Munir, Deepanraj Balakrishnan, Anand Mohanam, Ranjitha Jambulingam
Challenges in addressing the global energy demand due to modern technological advancements and oversize population growth has nearly depleted our planet’s fossil fuel reserves. Apart from over-consumption, increased pollution levels associated with their handling and processing have redefined the global climate and atmospheric scenarios putting the entire planet at risk. These potential threats have forced many researchers from various fields to rely on renewable energy resources for addressing this energy demand; and also serve as a replacement for fossil fuel along with reduced or zero emissions into the atmosphere. One such promising renewable energy resource is biodiesel, which has good energy density and self-sustainability besides their enhanced thermal properties, combustion characteristics and reduced emission levels.
An integrated car-and-ride sharing system for mobilizing heterogeneous travelers with application in underserved communities
Published in IISE Transactions, 2020
We consider a two-phase approach for the design and operations of the CRS system: In Phase I, we maximize the fulfillment of Type 1 demand over a spatial-temporal network that describes all users’ demand and availability, while maintaining the financial self-sustainability of the system. We prioritize Type 1 drivers with a high possibility of providing ride-hailing service with a preliminary match of Type 1 drivers and Type 2 users when making the decision. In Phase II, we match Type 1 and Type 2 users and optimize pick-up routes and schedules under a stochastic vehicle travel time and passenger loading (service) time, which may result in users’ waiting and overtime. By decomposing the problem into two phases, it reduces the size of the ride-hailing scheduling and routing problem by solely considering the accepted Type 1 drivers, and hence, improves the computational time overall.
3D printing technology for textiles and fashion
Published in Textile Progress, 2020
Tanvir Mahady Dip, Ayesha Siddika Emu, Md Nafiul Hassan Nafiz, Puja Kundu, Hasnatur Rahman Rakhi, Abdullah Sayam, Md Akhtarujjman, Mohammad Shoaib, Md Shakil Ahmed, Swimi Tabassum Ushno, Abdullah Ibn Asheque, Enamul Hasnat, Mohammad Abbas Uddin, Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem
Textile materials are moving towards smarter/intelligent levels of performance by the integration of novel functionalities to give real-time feedback. 3DP could play an important role because computer-sketched objects constructed by 3D printers have substantial design flexibility (Gnanasekaran et al., 2017). Multipart symmetrical designs and integration of multi-functional end-user devices were triggered by 3DP (Cheng-Yu, Ahmed Abro, Yi-Fan, & Ahmed Lakho, 2019). Multi-functionality is important in helping to attain adaptability, weight reduction, self-sustainability and autonomy regardless of the basic shape (Bodkhe & Ermanni, 2020; MacDonald & Wicker, 2016).