Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
              Volume              462009
Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation NetworksTheory and applicationsEditors:

• Agostino Nuzzolo,
• Nigel H. M. Wilson
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ISBN: 978-0-387-84811-2 (Print) 978-0-387-84812-9  (Online)



Theory and applications

Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, Vol. 46

Wilson, Nigel H. M.; Nuzzolo, Agostino (Eds.)


2009, XII, 316 p. 84 illus.

ISBN 978-0-387-84812-9

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About this book

• Examines new theoretical and practical approaches for all transportation levels
•                                         Focus goes beyond public transport to include freight transportation
•                                         Editors and contributors and are leading researchers in the field
  

Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications follows the book Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling, published in this series in 2004, recognizing the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems.
Conceived for the simulation of transit systems, in the last few years the schedule-based approach has been expanded and applied to operational planning of other transportation schedule services besides mass transit, e.g. freight transport. This innovative approach allows forecasting the evolution over time of the on-board loads on the services and their time-varying performance, using credible user behavioral hypotheses. It opens new frontiers in transportation modeling to support network design, timetable setting, and investigation of congestion effects, as well as the assessment of such new technologies, such as users system information (ITS technologies).
The contributors and editors of the book are leading researchers in the field of transportation, and in this volume they build a solid foundation for developing still more sophisticated models. These future models of scheduled transportation systems will continue to improve the accuracy and sensitivity desired in forecasting the performance of public transport systems.

Table of contents Introduction.- Schedule-based transportation system modeling: recent developments.- Passengers’ route choices in delayed rail networks.- Multi-day dynamic transit assignment.- Schedule-based dynamic transit assignment.- The potential impact of automated data collection systems on urban public transport planning.- Comparative assessment of alternative transit assignment models.- Large-scale schedule-based transit assignment.- Schedule-based transit assignment: a new dynamic equilibrium model with explicit vehicle capacity constraints.- Micro simulation learning-based approach for transit assignment.- Short-term prediction of vehicle loads in advanced public transportation information systems.- Dynamic transit assignment: the case for a frequency based model.- Schedule-based passenger and freight mode choice models for extra urban trips.- A schedule-based methodology proposal for sea motorways feasibility evaluation.- Estimation of target time distribution for agrifood products by road freight distribution.- A macroscopic model of a container terminal based on diachronic networks.

• Authors & Editors
  

Nigel H.M. Wilson is considered one of the leading researchers in the area of mass transit and Agostino Nuzzolo is very much a rising achiever in transportation research. They have attracted some well-established researchers to participate in the topical conference from which this volume is drawn.