The Dial-A-Ride Problem (DARP) has often been used to organize transport of elderly and handicapped people, assuming that these people can book their transport in advance. But the DARP can also be used to organize usual passenger or goods transportation in real online scenarios with time window constraints. This paper presents an efficient exact algorithm with significantly reduced calculation ...

Data mining is a relatively new data analysis technique that has the ability to discover patterns stored within historical data and is now considered a catalyst for enhancing business processes by avoiding failure patterns and exploiting success patterns. This technique is widely used in business applications including market segmentation, fraud detection, and credit risk analysis as well as ma...

With rapid growth in on-demand delivery, ridehailing, and shared mobility use, cities are observing dramatic increases demand for curbspace. In response, private companies have proposed a diverse range of structural, policy technology solutions to manage the curb lane more efficiently. Through structured interviews with public agency company staff review existing pilot project evaluations manag...

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The primary objective of the National Airspace System (NAS) is the transportation of passengers and cargo. Since passenger trip time performance is positively correlated with passenger satisfaction, airfare elasticity, and airline profits, it follows that the National Air Space (NAS) performance evaluation, modernization, and consumer protection should be based on passenger trip performance. Pu...

The most common problem in vertical transportation using elevator group appears when a passenger wants to travel from a floor to other different floor in a building. The passenger makes a hall call by pressing a landing call button installed at the floor and located near the cars of the elevator group. After that, the elevator controller receives the call and identifies which one of the elevato...

This work presents the MADARP agent architecture, devoted to the planning and scheduling of trip requests under a dynamic scenario within the context of passenger transportation systems. The architecture provides a set of base agents that perform the basic interface, planning and support services for managing different types of transportation requests by using a heterogeneous fleet of transport...

Improvements in passenger compartment comfort continue to be one of the key needs of the global transportation industry. Since their introduction more than 40 years ago, flexible molded polyurethane foams have successfully contributed to the comfort provided by all forms of transportation seating. Initially required to provide just a wide range of load bearing, seating foams are now being desig...