This report describes an evolutionary approach to distributed planning by transport agents. These agents, representing trucks, autonomously decide on their transport orders by interacting with cargo agents representing containers. The agents use a guided evolutionary computation method, called the learnable evolution model, to create transport plans and render optimized decisions on which cargo...

Assuming that mobility behaviour of citizens can be partially influenced by certain spatial structures, the integration land-use and transport planning seems to a key aspect transition towards sustainable mobility. Such an integrated approach is characterised, for example, increased cross-sectoral interaction, softened institutionalised boundaries between two sectors as well cross-sectorally sh...

management of traumatized patients after road accidents is in many countries still a serious challenge. apart from technical problems in management of car accidents, the recovery and rescue of the patients and their transport to hospital need exact planning and efficient strategy. present lecture compares the trauma management in an industrial country like germany with this in iran. present wor...

Current research in freight transport deals largely with models and routing algorithms, but questions are conspicuously absent regarding organizational development and change in business models. The application of modern IT tools within the transport industry has provided new opportunities to streamline and control transported goods. This paper explores the similarities between urban morphologi...

Integrated land-use and transport interaction models (LUTI) are praised for their ability to evaluate land-use and transport planning in an integrated and consistent modeling system. However, applications of empirically estimated land use models are rare. This paper will present the application of the Dutch national land-use/transport interaction model TIGRIS XL in a recent land-use and transpo...

This paper shows a scheme of urban transport management aimed at solving the externalities due to road trac. In this scheme both private and public transport modes are managed by a planning authority having control of some decision variables: road pricing, transit ticket prices, and the service characteristics of transit. The multimodal transport system is subject to some constraints: physical...

The variety of transport governance models in existence in the UK are the result of devolution and successive local government re-organisations which has had a significant impact on the form and content of regional transport strategies and local transport planning practice. A key policy challenge is the increasing need to manage transport demand and encourage the use of public transport; walkin...

This paper summarizes basic principles for transportation planning. It describes conventional transport planning, which tends to focus on motor vehicle traffic conditions, and newer methods for more multi-modal planning and evaluation. Multi-Modal Transportation Planning Victoria Transport Policy Institute 1 Conventional Transportation Planning Multi-modal planning refers to planning that consi...

Each year, more than three million animals are transported from farms to abattoirs in Sweden. Animal transport is related to economic and environmental costs and a negative impact on animal welfare. Time and the number of pick-up stops between farms and abattoirs are two key parameters for animal welfare. Both are highly dependent on efficient and qualitative transportation planning, which may ...