The emergence of large, fine-grained mobility datasets offers significant opportunities for the development and application of new methodologies for transportation analysis. In this paper, the link between routing behaviour and traffic patterns in urban areas is examined, introducing a method to derive estimates of traffic patterns from a large collection of fine-grained routing data. Using thi...

In China, rapid economic growth and increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) is the driving force for urbanization, and transformation of urban spatial structures and transportation. Frequent interactive economic activities among the neighboring cities reinforce the already spatially clustered cities. In this paper we tried to extract the key urban transportation characteristics of seventy ma...

Increasing pressures caused by negative consequences of transportation and traffic problems in major cities, have resulted many attempts towards improvement of planning and management of transportation systems, according to sustainability objectives. In this paper, a comprehensive model is developed using a system dynamics approach to evaluate sustainable urban transportation. This model includ...

This paper first studies the definition and connotation of transportation efficiency. From the viewpoint of different groups participating in urban transportation systems, different system functions and targets required by each group are analyzed. Then the corresponding system targets and evaluation rules required by the administrator are mainly studied. Four primary aspects which have great im...

The economic, social and environmental benefits generated by the use of urban public transportation infrastructure constitute a complex dynamic urban public transportation infrastructure utilization benefit system. This paper evaluates the coupling coordination among these three benefits taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as an example. These four cities have large-scale urban public...

This chapter is an introduction to the economics of the connection between urban transportation and land use. The nature of the transportation system strongly influences the patterns of land use in an urban area. Indeed, the long-run histories of urban areas sometimes are identified with the dominant mode of transportation of the time; the age of rail, the age of the automobile, and so on. Supp...

We consider a rich tanker trailer routing problem with stochastic transit times for chemicals and liquid bulk orders. A typical route of the tanker trailer comprises of sourcing a cleaned and prepped trailer from a pre-wash location, pickup and delivery of chemical orders, cleaning the tanker trailer at a post-wash location after order delivery and prepping for the next order. Unlike traditiona...

Traffic congestion is a major urban transportation problem which occurs when the traffic volume exceeds the capacity of existing road facilities. The occurring of traffic congestion is due to the freedom of owning private vehicle, poor traffic facility and unrestricted urban population growth. In this study, identification of maximum flow and bottleneck path in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia wa...

#13-1040 2 3 Experienced Travel Time Prediction in Congested Freeway Routes 4 5 6 By 7 8 9 Mehmet Yildirimoglu 10 Urban Transport Systems Laboratory 11 School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering 12 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 13 Phone: +41(21)693-2484 14 E-mail: [email protected] 15 16 17 and 18 19 20 Nikolas Geroliminis* 21 Urban Tran...

The urban public transport network (UPTN) in Nanjing is characterized by a complex network with topological pedestals. The empirical data indicates that it is a small-world network. Under malicious attack to the high connectivity nodes of the network, the average pathlength will increase 2.5 times, the reliability and traffic capacity of the UPTN will greatly decline, and the travel expenditure...