This chapter provides an introduction to urban simulation, which we interpret broadly to mean operational models that attempt to represent dynamic processes and interactions of urban development and transportation. Its intent is to provide the reader with a reasonable understanding of the context and objectives for urban simulation modelling within metropolitan areas in the United States, the l...

Walking has always been the most natural, the oldest, and the most essential form of transportation and is still major form of moving, hence, it plays a vital rule in urban transportation. In fact, walking is the most important tool for seeing, being seen, observing city wide daily and social activities, discovering the values and hidden attractions in urban environment, and therefore, feeling ...

Urban development and the installation of new and manifold activities on a territory, with industrial, commercial or service character, cause an always increasing demand on mobility to which it is necessary to offer an efficient well-organized and well-distributed on the territory transportation system. The adjustment of old networks to new needs must occur across unitary and organic vision of ...

We study the problem of robust routing in urban public transportation networks. In order to propose solutions that are robust for typical delays, we assume that we have past observations of real traffic situations available. In particular, we assume that we have “daily records” containing the observed travel times in the whole network for a few past days. We introduce a new concept to express a...

Land use planning is the main core of urban planning and one of the main components of an urban system. This element has close relation with transportation system of the city, so if their interaction becomes insufficient, deterioration and chaos would have an adverse impact on the urban system and would cause serious environmental issues. The integrated land use-transportation models seem to b...

Traffic management systems have historically been limited to addressing the control of street signal lights. Algorithmic solutions to this problem have proved to be very restrictive, while expert system solutions have only shown valid results with small signal networks. None of these approaches has addressed the need for management of the overall transportation system of surface streets, inters...

A city with a transportation system so well designed that failure of any arbitrary waypoint triggers no major event, is the major goal for every single urban planning and management board. However, city planning comes with inherent design constraints. Research is needed to understand the interaction between these constraints and city resilience. This understanding is useful for those planning f...

This article highlights the relationship between sustainability (or maintainability) and efficiency of transport systems. It also outlines some of the problems and issues that exist in providing mobility to urban Indians. Finally, it enumerates some of the ways in which application of (modern) information and communication technologies can help improve the efficiency of the transportation syste...

There is an increasing number of rapidly growing repositories capturing the movement of people in spacetime. Movement trajectory compression becomes an obvious necessity for coping with such growing data volumes. This paper introduces Semantic Trajectory Compression (STC), which allows for substantially compressing trajectory data with acceptable information loss. STC exploits that human urban ...

optimization is an important methodology for activities in planning and design. the transportation designers are able to introduce better projects when they can save time and cost of travel for project by optimization methods. most of the optimization problems in engineering are more complicated than they can be solved by custom optimization methods. the most common and available methods are he...