Mobile broadband Internet access is an important issue for next generation networks. Users not only want to access their broadband services and applications at home but also en-route. This is technically challenging especially in the transportation environment as it has to deal with high mobility and many customers. The “Broadband Wireless Internet Access in Public Transportation” (BIT) project...

Multi Agent Simulation has increasingly been used for transportation simulation in recent years. With current techniques, it is possible to simulate systems consisting of several million agents. Such Multi Agent Simulations have been applied to transportation simulation for whole cities and even large regions. In this paper we demonstrate how to adapt an existing multi agent transportation simu...

Nowadays the public transportation system like the metro are well advanced. Passenger safety, convenience and the need to improve the performance of existing public transportation is driving demand for intelligent transportation system in the market. The paper we introduce, proposes a novel fare estimation technique using Automated Fare Collection (AFC) System and Radio Frequency Identification...

Demographic change towards an ever aging population entails an increasing demand for specialized transportation systems to complement the traditional public means of transportation. Typically, users place transportation requests, specifying a pickup and a drop off location and a fleet of minibuses or taxis is used to serve these requests. The underlying optimization problem can be modeled as a ...

Medical services are usually provided in hospitals; however, in developing country, some rural residences have fewer opportunities to access in healthcare services due to the limitation of transportation communication. Therefore, in Thailand, there are charitable organizations operating to provide medical treatments to these people by shifting the medical services to operation sites; this is co...

The rapid growth experienced by many cities has created huge pressures on their traffic and transport systems. One common solution consists of increasing the number of roads available, but is not always the most appropriate. The application of Information and Communications Technologies enabling more efficient and effective use of the existing transport infrastructure is necessary (also known a...

The purpose of multi-modal route planning is to provide the traveler with optimal, feasible and personalized route between origin and destination, which may involve public and private transportation modes. The strategy driven approach (i.e. routing by certain predefined transfer order) is useful but can hardly provide free combination of multiple travel modes and some feasible results may be co...