Nowadays, the impacts of transportation systems on the environment and the society are undeniable. Considering the great environmental awakenings at the planetary level and the discounted growth of the carriage of goods per transportation mode within the European Union, the distribution and haulage companies must start to take measures to limit their impacts. We aim to build a multi-criteria de...

A multimodal multi-criteria route planning (MMRP) system provides an optimal multimodal route from an origin point to a destination point considering two or more criteria in a way this route can be a combination of public and private transportation modes. In this paper, the simulate annealing (SA) and the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (fuzzy AHP) were combined in order to find this route. ...

In recent years the structure of transportation networks has become more complex as a result of the fast development of the social and economical infrastructure. When dealing with time dependent multimodal context, transport planning represents a fundamental problem and more specifically for hazardous materials. Several approaches have been proposed that strive to reduce the financial costs, tr...

The effectiveness of Intelligent Transportation Systems depends largely on the ability to integrate information from diverse sources and the suitability of this information for the specific user. This paper describes a new approach for the management and exchange of this information, related to multimodal transportation. A novel software architecture is presented, with particular emphasis on th...

Given a range of traffic related sustainability problems, policy makers need to know which measures should be taken to reach their objectives as much as possible. Multi-objective optimisation is useful to support these decisions, because it results in an overview of possibly optimal solutions. This Pareto set can be very large, especially if more than two (mainly opposed) objectives are involve...

Rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) enables complete distribution of traveler information to end-users through the whole travel. European intelligent transportation system (ITS) architecture defines traveler information as specific functional area, and it comprises static and dynamic information about transport network condition, traveler information services a...

This paper addresses the problem of time-dependent shortest multimodal path in complex and large urban areas. This problem is one of the important and practical problems in several fields such as transportation, and recently attracts the research focus due to developments in new application areas. An adapted evolutionary algorithm, in which chromosomes with variable lengths and particularly def...

Earlier articles by the authors described the primary database design approaches that have been and are being used in geographic information system applications for transportation. These articles proposed a theoretical model for an enterprise geographic information system environment for transportation agencies. This follow-up article provides detailed guidance on building a multimodal transpor...

background many multimodal analgesia techniques have been tried to provide adequate analgesia for midline incisions extending above and below the umbilicus aiming at limiting the perioperative use of morphine thus limiting side effects. ultrasound (us) guidance made the anesthesiologist reconsider old techniques for wider clinical use. the rectus sheath block (rsb) is a useful technique under-u...

The design of a multimodal logistics service network with customer service time windows and environmental costs is an important and challenging issue. Accordingly, this work established a model to minimize the total cost of multimodal logistics service network design with time windows and environmental concerns. The proposed model incorporates CO2 emission costs to determine the optimal transpo...