Problem statement: As vehicle population increases, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) become more significant and mandatory in today’s overpopulated world. Vital problems in transportation such as mobility and safety of transportation are considered more, especially in metropolitans and highways. The main road traffic monitoring aims are: the acquisition and analysis of traffic figures, ...

Multidimensional Data in Multidimensional Scaling Using the Analytic Network Process Jih-Jeng Huang, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, Chorng-Shyong Ong, a Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road., Taipei 106, Taiwan b Institute of Management of Technology and Institute of Traffic and Transportation College of Management, National Chiao Tung Universit, 1...

Road systems 1 , railway systems 2 , air traffic systems 3 , and, for example, container vessel shipping 4 , all share underlying abstractions such as transportation nets with hubs (road intersections , train stations, airports and harbours) and links (road segments, train tracks, air and sea lanes) and their states of being open or closed for certain flows of traffic across hubs and along link...

Road safety is a still unsolved issue in our modern society. Today, road accidents kill more people than wars. Besides, several major cities are merely asphyxiated by traffic congestion. The socio-economical and environmental costs of these two problems are terrifying. Our society needs safe roads and an efficient mobility in both urban and interurban road networks. This talk presents a series ...

Traffic incidents have a broad negative impact on both traffic systems and the quality of social activities; thus, analyzing and predicting the influence of traffic incidents dynamically is necessary. However, the traditional geographic information system for transportation (GIS-T) mostly presents fundamental data and static analysis, and transportation models focus predominantly on some typica...

Evolution of public road transportation system requires analysis and planning tools to improve the service quality. A wide range of road transportation simulation tools exist with a variety of applications in planning, training and demonstration. However, few simulations take into account the specificities of public transportation. We present in this paper a bus network simulation which models ...

Automobiles and roads are as much of a way of experiencing national parks as they are a means of conveyance. This study examines experiential aspects of transportation on Acadia National Park’s primary scenic road – Ocean Drive. Interviews with vehicle-based road users were conducted to identify indicators to measure and manage experiential quality on Ocean Drive. Also, a survey was conducted t...

One of the main goals in transportation planning is to achieve solutions for two classical problems, the traffic assignment and toll pricing problems. The traffic assignment problem aims to minimize total travel delay among all travelers. Based on data derived from the first problem, the toll pricing problem determines the set of tolls and corresponding tariffs that would collectively benefit a...

The routing of vehicles on road transportation networks is an area of great importance to transportation planners within scientific literature. This field includes well known and studied problems like traveling salesman problems or TSP or the more realistic asymmetric variant or ATSP, whose applications extend to other areas of transport and operations research. This work studies the effect tha...

The shapes that networks form are thought to be related to the performance of networks during this process. Using reduced travel time as an evaluation criterion, this study examines growth of road and rail transportation networks to determine the differences in growth patterns that are caused by various factors, including speed on transportation network.