TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT AS A TOOL OF TRANSPORT POLICY

Policy Implications of Recent Behavioral Research in Transportation Demand Management

Transportation Demand Management

Rolling out of bed, José checks his CommuterAlert traveler information system while his coffee brews. The regional commuter assistance program was offering the system through a local automobile dealer when José purchased the family's vehicle. CommuterAlert is predicting that his 10-mile commute on I-275, which normally takes 29 minutes, will now take 46 to 52 minutes. In his printer are identif...

A Decentralized Management Approach for On-Demand Transit Transportation System

A Dimensioning and Deployment Tool for on Demand Policy-Based Resource Management System

Today the Policy-Based Management (PBM) approach is recognized as an efficient solution to simplify the complex task of managing and controlling networks. To this end, the IETF has introduced a reference framework to build PBM systems. However, this framework only addresses the provisioning of relatively long validity period services based on pre-defined SLAs (Service Level Agreements). Further...

MicroWorlds as a Tool for Policy Making

The Hungarian government is experiencing escalating costs for flood mitigation measures and for economical compensation to victims. In a joint research project between the International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, Computer and System Science Department (DSV) in Sweden, and the Hungarian Academy of Science, the flooding problem of Upper Tisza in Hungary is investigat...