The socio-economic costs of infrastructure damage and lost functionality that follow natural disasters, including climate change or a major attack, are much larger than the cost of improving infrastructure resiliency to typical events and properly maintaining it. The critical review of selected case studies presented in this policy brief shows that...
2019 16th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communications (WPNC), BREME, ALLEMAGNE, 23-/10/2019 - 24/10/2019
2019 16th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communications (WPNC), BREME, ALLEMAGNE, 23-/10/2019 - 24/10/2019
Dans les années 1960, la capacité des plus grands porte-conteneurs se limitait à 1 000 EVP(1). En 40 ans, cette capacité a été multipliée par plus de 20. Les économies d'échelle, qui se traduisent par la réduction du coût de transport à l'EVP transporté, sont la pierre angulaire de cette course menée par les armateurs et qui pour l'instant semble s...
This paper gives an overview of official monetary valuations of the prevention of road crashes, road fatalities and injuries in 31 European countries. The values have been made comparable by converting them to Euro in 2015-values, adjusted by purchasing power parities. The monetary valuation of preventing a fatality varies from 0.7 to 3.0 million E...
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Since the availability of GNSS raw measurements with Google Nougat API in 2016, research has been assessing smartphone performances and GNSS data's quality. The objective is to achieve precise positioning and to assess its quality. With the growing Internet of Things (IoT), embedded sensors spread everywhere for acquiring, assessing and monitoring ...
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Sewer asset management gained momentum and importance in recent years due to economic considerations, since infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation directly represent major investments. Because physical urban water infrastructure has life expectancies of up to 100 years or more, contemporary urban drainage systems are strongly influenced by h...
