Meet the editors

Stefano De Luca, born in 1972, graduated from the University of Naples "Federico II" and received his PhD in Transportation Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is an associate professor of Transportation Planning and Transportation Systems Theory at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno. He is director of the Transportation Planning and Modelling Laboratory, and his research topics include

transportation planning techniques, choice modelling, signal settings design, traffic assignment models and algorithms, and freight/passenger terminal simulation and optimization. He advises city, regional, and national governments on transportation planning issues, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Advanced Transportation and Sustainability. He has authored more than 100 book chapters and journal articles.

Roberta Di Pace is a tenure-track assistant professor of transportation systems in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, in Salerno, Italy, and currently, she is a committee member of the department's research commission and PhD program. Her research focus includes traffic flow modelling and simulation, the development of analytical tools for Cooperative – Intelligent Transportation Systems and ad-

vanced urban traffic management and travellers' information systems, modelling behaviour and traffic assignment. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Advanced Transportation and Mathematical Problems in Engineering. She has authored more than 60 book chapters and journal articles.

Dr. Boban Djordjevic is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin. He completed his PhD in the railway domain at the University of Ljubljana. He earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Traffic and Transport Engineering at the University of Belgrade. His areas of interest are railway optimization, multicriteria decision making, and sustainable transportation.

Contents

Transportation Models

Technologies and Systems

on SŽDC and ŽSR Networks

*by Attila Bai and Zoltán Gabnai*

Unsignalized Intersections

*by Jozef Gašparík and Václav Cempírek*

Transportation Infrastructure: A Review *by Jiawen Liu, Hui Li, Yu Wang and Nailing Ge*

Third-Party Logistics

*by Ossama E. Ramadan and Virginia P. Sisiopiku*

*by Stefano de Luca, Roberta Di Pace and Facundo Storani*

*by Yangyan Shi, Rafay Waseem and Hafiz Muhammad Shahid*

Analysis with Regard to Cargo Transport by Air and Rail *by Corinna Cermak, Erich Markl and Maximilian Lackner*

The Possible Role of Large-Scale Sewage Plants in Local Transport

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 45**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 89**

**Chapter 6 113** Energy Efficiency Management: State of the Art and Improvement Potential

**Chapter 7 137**

**Chapter 8 163**

Analytical Assessment of Effective Maintenance Operations on At-Grade

*by Francesca Russo, Salvatore Antonio Biancardo and Rosa Veropalumbo*

Railway Infrastructure Capacity in the Open Access Condition: Case Studies

Integrated Life Cycle Economic and Environmental Impact Assessment for

A Critical Review on Population Synthesis for Activity- and Agent-Based

Approaches for Modelling User's Acceptance of Innovative Transportation
