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Environmental Research: Infrastructure and SustainabilityThe automobile sector faces major challenges in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with the shift to electric mobility raising concerns about resource sustainability.
Ziyan He +6 more
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Real‐time dynamic vehicle detection on resource‐limited mobile platform
IET Computer Vision, 2013 Given the rapid expansion of car ownership worldwide, vehicle safety is an increasingly critical issue in the automobile industry. The reduced cost of cameras and optical devices has made it economically feasible to deploy front‐mounted intelligent ...
Duan‐Yu Chen +2 more
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Export Competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry : Does Low Wage Cost matter? [PDF]
This paper analyzes the differences in the export behavior of domestic and multinational firms in the Indian auto component industry. Three types of firms are identified according to ownership : purely domestic and licensees, domestic joint ventures and ...
Madhuri Saripalle
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Traffic, urban growth and suburban sprawl [PDF]
, 2003 Cities are still getting bigger in the western world. Even though urbanpopulations are barely reproducing themselves and migration from thecountryside to the town has slowed to a trickle, the demand for more livingspace shows no sign of abating as cities
Batty, M, Besussi, E, Chin, N
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Environmental Effects of Driving Automobiles in the University of Malaya Campus: A Pilot Study [PDF]
Journal of Design and the Built Environment, 2009 With the increase of human population there has been an evident increase in per capita automobile use and ownership, significantly to a point that almost every urban university campus faces serious challenges from the heavy traffic movement as well as ...
S.Y. Kong +3 more
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A Quantitative Analysis of Suburbanization and the Diffusion of the Automobile [PDF]
Suburbanization in the U.S. between 1910 and 1970 was concurrent with the rapid diffusion of the automobile. A circular city model is developed in order to access quantitatively the contribution of automobiles and rising incomes to suburbanization.
Kopecky, Karen A., Suen, Richard M. H.
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The Rise of China’s Auto Industry and Its Impact on the U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] The automobile industry, a key sector in China’s industrialization and modernization efforts, has been developing rapidly since the 1990s. In recent years, China has become the world’s fastest growing automotive producer.
Tang, Rachel
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Increasing Public Transit Ridership Among University Of Manitoba Students: A Bus Rapid Transit Solution [PDF]
, 2002 Paper: iv, 33 pp.; ill., digital file.Public transit ridership has decreased over the last 50 years as automobile ownership has increased. The environmental impacts of automobile use have prompted the need for more sustainable methods of transportation.
Medeiros, Nelson
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1954 survey of consumer finances: purchases of durable goods and houses in 1953 [PDF]
Consumer surveys ; Consumer ...
John Frechtling, Tynan Smith
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Revista Contemporânea de Contabilidade, 2006 The present paper is about a case study on automobile pieces which aimed at comparing the total cost ownership (TCO), obtained through questionnaires and accounting documents, of two softwares, one with an owner and the other free, in order to detect the
Carlos Denner dos Santos +1 more
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