The desirable goal in passenger transportation is moving more people in fewer vehicles. This goal, in respect of road transport, can be attained by encouraging public transport modes like buses by assigning priority. This paper is concerned with application of micro simulation technique to study the impact of provision of reserved bus lanes on the flow of highly heterogeneous traffic on urban r...

The main aim of this research is to develop and apply location optimization formulations in conjunction with a geographic information system (GIS) to allocate police patrol vehicles such that the police car road coverage in a specific area is maximized. We will demonstrate this using a case study based on the interurban road network of Northern Israel. Currently it is standard practice around t...

Introduction Middlebox traffic steering, the capability of routing traffic through different sequences of middleboxes, has been a popular application in software-define networks (SDN) [5]. In this work, we focus on network function virtualization (NFV) [2][3], especially on core virtualized network functions that process high-volume traffic, such as session border controllers (SBCs) and serving...

LTE (Long Term Evolution) designates the successor to the widespread mobile radio standard UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System). Its introduction is one of the responses to the rapid growth in mobile data traffic. To date, the volume of traffic transmitted over mobile networks worldwidehas doubled every year. In many countries, including Switzerland, this traffic doubling time is j...

When freeway traffic flow approaches capacity, minor disturbances or perturbations can cause unstable traffic streams to break down into queued or bottleneck conditions with the accompanying heavy congestion costs. As the traffic volume at which flow breaks down is uncertain, this research utilizes a stochastic capacity model to estimate congestion costs in terms of delays, fuel, and emissions....

introduction noise pollution is one of the environmental pollution that threats public health to the survival of organisms. urban traffic causes noise pollution as a major factor of air pollution. this is one of the problems of urban citizens. this is also a growing problem that has a potential impact on public health, which is mainly resulted from transport vehicles in the cities and the resid...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming systems have been increasingly popular and successful in today’s Internet, which provide large collections of video channels to millions of users at low server costs. The large volumes of P2P streaming traffic are exceeding those incurred by BitTorrent-like file sharing applications, threatening huge traffic relay cost to the Internet service providers (ISPs). ...