Effective transportation systems lead to the efficient movement of goods and people, which significantly contribute to the quality of life in every society. In the heart of every economic and social development, there is always a transportation system. Meanwhile, traffic congestion has been increasing worldwide because of increased motorization, urbanization, population growth, and changes in p...

To describe the dynamics of stage-structured populations with m stages living in n patches, we consider matrix models of the form SD, where S is a block diagonal matrix with n× n column substochastic matrices S1, . . . , Sm along the diagonal and D is a block matrix whose blocks aren× n nonnegative diagonal matrices. The matrix S describes movement between patches and the matrix D describes gro...

Controlled branching processes are stochastic growth population models in which the number of individuals with reproductive capacity in each generation is controlled by a deterministic function. The behaviour of these populations is strongly related to the main parameters of the offspring distribution. In practice these values are unknown and their estimation is necessary. Usually it must be ob...

The Australian Government is about to release Australia’s first sustainable population policy. Sustainable population growth, among other things, implies sustainable energy demand. Current modelling of future energy demand both in Australia and by agencies such as the International Energy Agency sees population growth as one of the key drivers of energy demand. Simply increasing the demand for ...

Florida ziziphus Ziziphus celata is a self-incompatible clonal shrub comprising fewer than a dozen remnant, uniclonal populations in south-central Florida, USA. We model the population viability of this highly endangered species based on 9 yr of data from 2 populations. The matrix projection model is based on hypothetically independent ‘plants’ defined as clumps of ramets within a 25 cm radius....