We designed a system to infer the multimodal itineraries traveled by a user from a combination of smartphone sensor data (e.g., GPS, Wi-Fi, inertial sensors), personal information, and knowledge of the transport network topology (e.g., maps, transportation timetables). The system operates with a Multimodal Transport Network that captures the set of admissible multimodal itineraries, i.e., paths...

Purpose: Multimodal freight transport developed in the transportation sector as an alternative to unimodal transport faced with the challenges brought by the growing global demand for transporting goods. Multimodal transport is the transportation of goods using at least two modes of transport, usually door-to-door. The common transport modes include railways, maritime routes, and the roads. Whe...

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...

This paper presents an alternative approach for time-dependent multimodal transport problem. We describe a new graph structure to abstract multimodal networks, called transfer graph, which adapts to the distributed nature of real information sources of transportation networks. A decomposition of the Shortest Path Problem in transfer graph is proposed to optimize the computation time. This appro...

Multimodal transport has been promoted by several transport commissions initiatives as an alternative to road transport. A key factor for improving its competitiveness is to provide private and public investors with means of evaluating and selecting the most profitable options. This paper presents a parameterisation schema of a freight transport model for the assessment of a multimodal transpor...

China's economy has maintained rapid and steady development in recent years. However, the transport resources are getting increasingly tense and have become one of the "bottlenecks" which have restricted social economic development of our country. How to improve transport efficiency to build a multi-modal transport in close collaboration with international standards for multimodal transport sys...

In this paper, the structural characteristic of urban multimodal transport system is fully analyzed and then a two-tier network structure is proposed to describe such a system, in which the firsttier network is used to depict the traveller’s mode choice behaviour and the second-tier network is used to depict the vehicle routing when a certain mode has been selected. Subsequently, the generalize...