between the first origin and the last destination. Many shipments travel by longer, less direct routes. Most available data on commodity shipments within a single country identify the first origins and the last destinations but not any transshipment points along the way. The Commercial Vehicle Survey, provided by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Canada, proved to have particularly use...

The present paper demonstrates that treating multidestination trips (MDT) as single-destination trips does not involve any systematic upward or downward bias in consumer surplus (CS) estimates because the direct negative effect of a price increase (treating MDT as a single-destination trip) is offset by a shift in the estimated demand curve. Still, ignoring MDT can greatly underestimate or over...

With the goal of making urban living more efficient and pleasant through a better driving experience, we present a predictive navigation system that makes use of city-described data along with the driver’s driving history to predict destination in order to provide useful routing recommendation accordingly. In this paper, we describe a predictive destination framework composed of models that wor...

One of the biggest challenges facing Internet of Things (IoT) is the existing infrastructure of Internet and its mechanism of action. This paper proposes a new system, which sends the full Internet best path (between source and destination objects) to source object on IoT. This will help data of source object to reach its final destination object faster. This system saves most of recalculation ...

modern world faces a multitude of challenges regarding displacement including high fuel consumption, air pollution, congestion in streets, decrease in physical activities, insecurity of passers-by etc. most of which result from dependence on automobiles and the vehicle-stricken urban forms. planners and public health officials are turning to land planning and urban design for help in reducing a...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract This paper presents an attempt of simulating daily fluctuations of river discharge at global scale. Total Runoff Integrating Pathways (TRIP) is a global river routing model which can help to isolate the river basins, inter-basin transport ...

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is one of the most important urban systems that its functionality affects other urban systems directly and indirectly. In developing societies, increasing the transportation system efficiency is an important concern, because variety of problems such as heavy traffic condition, rise of the accident rate and the reduced performance happen with the rise of p...

Recently, the Value-at-Risk (VaR) framework was introduced for the routing problem of a single hazmat trip. In this paper, we extend the VaR framework in two important ways. First, we show how to apply the VaR concept to a more realistic multi-trip multi-hazmat type framework, which determines routes that minimize the global VaR value while satisfying equity constraints. Second, we show how to ...

This paper examines the determinants of visitors’ expenditure behaviour at cultural events. The authors analyse visitors’ expenditure at the micro-level, dividing it into expenditure on accommodation and expenditure on food and beverages. The explicative variables taken into account are socio-demographic, economic, psychological and trip–related attributes. An ad hoc survey was conducted on the...