Transportation Research, Economics and Policy
2012
Network Reliability in PracticeSelected Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network ReliabilityEditors:

• David M. Levinson,
• Henry X. Liu,
• Michael Bell
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ISBN: 978-1-4614-0946-5 (Print) 978-1-4614-0947-2  (Online)



Transportation Network Reliability

Series: Transportation Research, Economics and Policy

Levinson, David M.; Liu, Henry X.; Bell, Michael (Eds.)


2012, VIII, 259 p. 63 illus., 35 in color.

ISBN 978-1-4614-0947-2

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• About this book
  

•                                         Contains contributions from leading experts from both economics/business and engineering backgrounds
•                                         Provides numerous cases studies of network reliability decisions
•                                         Develops an integrative framework for assessing reliability and examining at implementation issues
  

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010.  International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the reliability of transportation networks in order to illustrate both vulnerability to day-to-day and unpredictability variability and risk in travel, and demonstrates strategies for addressing those issues.
The scope of the chapters includes all aspects of analysis and design to improve network reliability, specifically user perception of unreliability of public transport, public policy and reliability of travel times, the valuation and economics of reliability, network reliability modeling and estimation, travel behavior and vehicle routing under uncertainty, and risk evaluation and management for transportation networks.  The book combines new methodologies and state of the art practice to model and address questions of network unreliability, making it of interest to both academics in transportation and engineering as well as policy-makers and practitioners.