Title of Dissertation: DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING FOR LESS-THAN-TRUCKLOAD TRUCKING OPERATIONS Behrang Hejazi, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Ali Haghani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering On a typical day, more than 53 million tons of goods valued at about $36 million are moved on the US multimodal transportation network. An efficient freight transportation indust...

From the point of view of the feasibility of providing growth in road capacity parallel to the predicted growth in traffic as well in terms of impact on the environment and health, current trends in transportation are unsustainable. Transport problems are expected to worsen due to the fact that worldwide automobile ownership tripled between 1970 and 2000, and the movement of goods is projected ...

Multimodal transport refers to the transportation of goods under a single contract but performed with at least two different modes transport. This research designs new method for solving Transportation Problem (TP) by introducing multimodal systems fuzzy-stochastic environment, which we refer as Fuzzy-Stochastic (FSMMTP). An algorithm is developed reduce FSMMTP deterministic TP, mainly based on...

Mobile interfaces need to allow the user and system to adapt their choice of communication modes according to user preferences, the task at hand, and the physical and social environment. We describe a multimodal application architecture which combines finite-state multimodal language processing, a speech-act based multimodal dialogue manager, dynamic multimodal output generation, and user-tailo...

Multimodal transportation systems, with several coexisting services like bus, tram and metro, can be represented as time-resolved multilayer networks where the different transportation modes connecting the same set of nodes are associated with distinct network layers. Their quantitative description became possible recently due to openly accessible datasets describing the geo-localized transport...

In this paper, we present an end-to-end data-driven system, dubbed TransDec (short for Transportation Decision-Making), to enable decision-making queries in transportation systems with dynamic, real-time and historical data. With TransDec, we particularly address the challenges in visualization, monitoring, querying and analysis of dynamic and large-scale spatiotemporal transportation data. Tra...

In spite of massive research having been conducted on moving objects databases, existing methods can not manage moving objects with transportation modes and covering multiple environments, e.g., Walk → Car → Indoor. The current techniques target a single environment, for example road network. But humans’ movement can include several environments like roads, pavement areas, buildings, which impo...

Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transport system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) for tra c ow and airport departure management; however the passenger's door-to-door journey during di cult times often remains...

Prioritization is an increasingly important concept for transportation system planning and programming. The resources for capital improvements to state and regional transportation systems are stagnant or declining. AT the same time, population growth, urban development patterns, and travel behaviors are increasing the demands placed on transportation systems. The number and range of interest gr...