The analysis proceeds with a review of the problem of forecasting transportation requirements. Several idiosyncratic models are examined and their properties specified. The forecasting of transportation stocks and commodity flows is discussed. Models of the demand for transportation services are implemented with empirical data. Graph theory as an interpretative frame of reference is introduced ...

This paper describes a declarative approach to modeling a multimodal transportation network (MTN) composed of multiple connecting transport modes, such as bus, tram, light rail, subway and commuter rail, where within each mode, service is provided on separate lines or routes. The considered model of a network of multimodal transportation processes (MTPN) provides a framework to address the need...

The objective of this paper is to review object-oriented (OO) approaches to data modeling and data handling and their usefulness in transportation planning and modeling in general and Intelligent Transportation Systems in particular. The paper begins with a discussion of the current GIS data model for representing a transportation network and the most common database management systems used in ...

The objective of this paper is to review object-oriented (OO) approaches to data modeling and data handling and their usefulness in transportation planning and modeling in general and Intelligent Transportation Systems in particular. The paper begins with a discussion of the current GIS data model for representing a transportation network and the most common database management systems used in ...

A risk assessment model is constructed for the hazardous materials (hazmat) road transportation combining features of TransCAD traffic forecasts, and based on traffic planning network of spatial analysis and attribute process, the database for path planning of hazmat transportation was set up. Based on the TransCAD platform, this research analyzes the risk value of hazmat transportation in each...

We analyze the global structure of the worldwide air transportation network, a critical infrastructure with an enormous impact on local, national, and international economies. We find that the worldwide air transportation network is a scale-free small-world network. In contrast to the prediction of scale-free network models, however, we find that the most connected cities are not necessarily th...

In transportation networks the robustness of a network regarding nodes and links failures is a key factor for its design. A common way to measure the robustness of a network is to evaluate its algebraic connectivity. In our previous work we formulated a new air transportation network model and showed the algebraic connectivity optimization problem is important because the two sub-problems of ad...