Human factors in transportation-social and technological evolution across maritime road rail and aviation domains
Year: 2017 Language: english Author: GIUSEPPE DI BUCCHIANICO Genre: Conference Publisher: CRC Press Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 473 Description: The development of the transport industry, as a whole and in all its main domains (rail, road, maritime, and aviation), is essential for the well-being of our planet: it not only can facilitate the mobility of citizens and goods, but also has a significant impact on economic growth, on social development, and on the environment. In recent decades, moreover, the movement of people and goods in the world has seen unprecedented expansion. The overall increase in traffic at the global level has been both a cause and consequence of many contemporary phenomena, often interconnected: increasing globalization, with the abolition of many import duties and borders; the liberalization of markets, which has in many cases led to substantial price reductions; the change of social structures and demographic evolution, which have fueled the increase in travels and trips; increasing urbanization, which favored the commuting phenomena; the process innovations in production systems and delivery of goods, which saw the elimination of warehouse stocks, the development of “just-in-time” supplies, and the rapid growth of mail order sales; the technological advances in energy and ICT (information and communication technology), which have revolutionized the same systems and the means of transportation. So the transport sector has a growing role in the economic and social development of contemporary societies. This also related to the frantic evolution of technology, especially electronic and information, which led to inevitable and profound changes, not only in economic activities, but also in our daily lives. If, however, the sector as a whole on the one hand continues to have an unprecedented dynamism and economic prosperity, it determines ever-increasing social and ecological costs. Many problematic aspects are due in large part to a substantial gap between recent technological and social evolution and some endogenous and substantially inefficient characteristics of transport systems, already largely anachronistic, that tend to slow down its evolution to the idea of an overall system of integrated and sustainable mobility.
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Human factors in transportation-social and technological evolution across maritime road rail and aviation domains
Language: english
Author: GIUSEPPE DI BUCCHIANICO
Genre: Conference
Publisher: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 473
Description: The development of the transport industry, as a whole and in all its main domains (rail,
road, maritime, and aviation), is essential for the well-being of our planet: it not only can
facilitate the mobility of citizens and goods, but also has a significant impact on economic
growth, on social development, and on the environment.
In recent decades, moreover, the movement of people and goods in the world has seen
unprecedented expansion. The overall increase in traffic at the global level has been both a
cause and consequence of many contemporary phenomena, often interconnected: increasing
globalization, with the abolition of many import duties and borders; the liberalization
of markets, which has in many cases led to substantial price reductions; the change of
social structures and demographic evolution, which have fueled the increase in travels
and trips; increasing urbanization, which favored the commuting phenomena; the process
innovations in production systems and delivery of goods, which saw the elimination of
warehouse stocks, the development of “just-in-time” supplies, and the rapid growth of
mail order sales; the technological advances in energy and ICT (information and communication
technology), which have revolutionized the same systems and the means of
transportation.
So the transport sector has a growing role in the economic and social development of
contemporary societies. This also related to the frantic evolution of technology, especially
electronic and information, which led to inevitable and profound changes, not only in
economic activities, but also in our daily lives. If, however, the sector as a whole on the one
hand continues to have an unprecedented dynamism and economic prosperity, it determines
ever-increasing social and ecological costs. Many problematic aspects are due in
large part to a substantial gap between recent technological and social evolution and some
endogenous and substantially inefficient characteristics of transport systems, already
largely anachronistic, that tend to slow down its evolution to the idea of an overall system
of integrated and sustainable mobility.
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