Road safety is a still unsolved issue in our modern society. Today, road accidents kill more people than wars. Besides, several major cities are merely asphyxiated by traffic congestion. The socio-economical and environmental costs of these two problems are terrifying. Our society needs safe roads and an efficient mobility in both urban and interurban road networks. This talk presents a series ...

It has recently been demonstrated, both theoretically and experimentally, that the average flow and density of some urban traffic networks is related by a unique, reproducible curve known as the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD). For networks in which vehicles cannot adaptively re-route to avoid congestion, this relationship is robust only when there are few vehicles on the network. As thes...

Abstract The number of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and consequently their penetration level into urban society is increasing which has imperatively reinforced the need for a joint stochastic operational planning Transportation Network (TN) Power Distribution (PDN). This paper solves multi-agent simulation-based model with objective minimizing total cost interdependent TN PDN systems. Capturing temp...

Fractal nature is observed in our real-life infrastructures of urban spatial organization and many technological networks. Indeed, the fractal dimensions of landuse and area-perimeter have been measured in real data of urban cities [1][2]. Similar structures with mixing of dense and sparse areas of nodes have been found in router networks [3], air transportation networks [4], and mobile communi...

1- introduction transportation and traffic is one of the major issues and challenges that are facing urban managers. so that it has become one of the major challenges in the political area. transport is one of the most important elements of urban development which is used for people and goods moving from a different geographical place to other places. in order to achieve efficient productive in...

In urban transportation networks, research work has been focusing on alleviating the traffic congestion to optimize the network performance, such as increasing the traffic flow and decreasing the user travel time. However, studying the physical properties of traffic propagation and congestion growing has always been a difficult task, especially in a large and complex transportation network. Pre...