The intelligent and self-adaptive urban traffic signal control (TSC) system has become a development trend of intelligent transportation system (ITS). The most city dwellers are concerned with the urban traffic issues very much. So, to provide a self awareness and adaptive facilities in traffic signal control system is become more and more urgent. However, many roadway and traffic applications ...

In this paper, we propose a network efficiency measure for congested networks, that captures demands, costs, flows, and behavior. The network efficiency/performance measure can identify which network components, that is, nodes and links, have the greatest impact in terms of their removal, due to, for example, natural disasters, structural failures, terrorist attacks, etc., and, hence, are impor...

Previous urban sprawl studies have typically taken a cross-sectional approach without examining how sprawling urban areas are performing over time. Longitudinal studies of individual or household travel behavior and built-environment preference have made some progress in this direction, but very few studies have explored the longitudinal interaction of urban form with transportation and environ...

land use planning is the main core of urban planning and one of the main components of an urban system. this element has close relation with transportation system of the city, so if their interaction becomes insufficient, deterioration and chaos would have an adverse impact on the urban system and would cause serious environmental issues. the integrated land use-transportation models seem to b...

The present paper investigates the efficiency and robustness of different real-time dynamic origindestination (O-D) matrix adjustment algorithms when implemented in large-scale transportation networks. The proposed algorithms produce time-dependent O-D trip matrices based on the maximumentropy trip departure times, as they are calculated with the use of simulated and actual observed link flows....

Meteorological phenomena, in particular rapid events with local dynamics such as the onset of heavy rainfall, may have several instantaneous impacts on human behaviour. These impacts include, for example, the utilization of private or public transportation or the scheduling of personal and business activities. Given the increasing accuracy of weather forecasting at any scale, understanding the ...

The objective of this research is to identify the role of network architecture in influencing individual travel behavior using travel survey data from two urban areas in Florida: Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Various measures of network structure, compiled from existing sources, are used to quantify roadway networks, capture the arrangement and connectivity of nodes and links in the networks and t...

The transportation of people and goods has been necessary in any society for thousands of years. In modern times, transportation has become a foundation component of human activity. A great deal of problems related to traffic and transportation have been ingeniously resolved in the past and perhaps an even greater number of problems will have to be overcome in the future. Now it has been realiz...