Computer-based Modelling and Optimization in Transportation

✍ Scribed by Jorge Freire de Sousa, Riccardo Rossi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 474
• Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 262
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together works resulting from research carried out by members of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT) and presented during meetings and workshops organized by the Group under the patronage of the Association of European Operational Research Societies in 2012 and 2013.

The main targets of the EWGT include providing a forum to share research information and experience, encouraging joint research and the development of both theoretical methods and applications, and promoting cooperation among the many institutions and organizations which are leaders at national level in the field of transportation and logistics.

The primary fields of interest concern operational research methods, mathematical models and computation algorithms, to solve and sustain solutions to problems mainly faced by public administrations, city authorities, public transport companies, service providers and logistic operators. Related areas of interest are: land use and transportation planning, traffic control and simulation models, traffic network equilibrium models, public transport planning and management, applications of combinatorial optimization, vehicle routing and scheduling, intelligent transport systems, logistics and freight transport, environment problems, transport safety, and impact evaluation methods.

In this volume, attention focuses on the following topics of interest:

· Decision-making and decision support

· Energy and Environmental Impacts

· Urban network design

· Optimization and simulation

· Traffic Modelling, Control and Network Traffic Management

· Transportation Planning

· Mobility, Accessibility and Travel Behavior

· Vehicle Routing

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Decision Support Tool for Evaluating Maintenance Strategies on Roads Networks with Incomplete Data....Pages 3-14
Models for Train Load Planning Problems in a Container Terminal....Pages 15-25
Application of a Rule-Based Decision Support System for Improving Energy Efficiency of Passive Temperature-Controlled Transports....Pages 27-39
An Eco-Traffic Management Tool....Pages 41-56
Evaluating Changes in the Operational Planning of Public Transportation....Pages 57-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
A Service Station Location Model to Explore Prospects and Policies for Alternative Transport Fuels: A Case of CNG Distribution in Italy....Pages 71-84
Electric Vehicles Charging Network Planning....Pages 85-100
Charging-Stations for Electrical Vehicles: Analysis and Model to Identify the Most Convenient Locations....Pages 101-111
A Joint Probability Density Function for Reducing the Uncertainty of Marginal Social Cost of Carbon Evaluation in Transport Planning....Pages 113-126
An Environmental Approach to Optimize Urban Freight Transport Systems....Pages 127-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
A Road Network Design Model for Large-Scale Urban Network....Pages 139-149
A Method for Topological Transit Network Design in Urban Area....Pages 151-161
Determining On-Street Parking Places in Urban Road Networks Using Meta-Heuristic Harmony Search Algorithm....Pages 163-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Global Optimisation of Signal Settings: Meta-Heuristic Algorithms for Solving Real-Scale Problems....Pages 177-193
Bid-Price Heuristics for Unrestricted Fare Structures in Cargo Revenue Management....Pages 195-207
A Rail Network Optimization Model Designed for Freight Traffic....Pages 209-222
An Integrated Approach for the Design of Demand Responsive Transportation Services....Pages 223-235
Simulation of Crowd Dynamics in Panic Situations Using a Fuzzy Logic-Based Behavioural Model....Pages 237-250
Bilevel O/D Matrix Adjustment Formulation Using High Convergence Assignment Methods....Pages 251-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Comparison of Importance Indices for Highway Network Reliability Improvement Combined with Cost–Benefit Analysis....Pages 265-280
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Fuzzy Logic Models of Gap-Acceptance Behavior at Roundabouts....Pages 281-291
The Influence of the Volume–Delay Function on Uncertainty Assessment for a Four-Step Model....Pages 293-306
Hybrid Calibration of Microscopic Simulation Models....Pages 307-320
Signal Setting Design at a Single Junction Through the Application of Genetic Algorithms....Pages 321-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Testing a Heuristic for a Flexible Transport System....Pages 335-345
Rescheduling Railway Timetables in Presence of Passenger Transfers Between Lines Within a Transportation Network....Pages 347-360
The Fuzzy System Sensitivity Analysis: An Example of Air Travel Demand Models....Pages 361-373
Stochastic User Equilibrium and Analysis of Users’ Benefits....Pages 375-387
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Modelling Daily Mobility Satisfaction Using a Structural Equation Model....Pages 391-403
Advanced Trip Planners for Transit Networks: Some Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Pre-Trip Path Choice Modeling....Pages 405-417
Sensing Bluetooth Mobility Data: Potentials and Applications....Pages 419-431
The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire: An Investigation Study Applied to Chinese Drivers....Pages 433-447
Front Matter....Pages 449-449
Solving Non-smooth Arc Routing Problems Throughout Biased-Randomized Heuristics....Pages 451-462
A Hybrid Algorithm for Solving the General Vehicle Routing Problem in the Case of the Urban Freight Distribution....Pages 463-475
A Parallel Matheuristic for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problems....Pages 477-489

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing