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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Transportation plan"”.
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Community Visioning in Long-Range Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Virginia
… the traditional process of developing a state's transportation plan, a process which has typically been very much an in-government and esoteric province of professionals in transportation planning. The research specifically focuses on the Commonwealth of Virginia and its addition of three citizen …
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Optimization-based Logistics Planning and Performance Measurement for Hospital Evacuation and Emergency Management
… strategies in terms of the equity of evacuation plans generated. We first formulate the evacuation transportation problem of a hospital as an integer programming model that minimizes the total evacuation risk consisting of the threat risk necessitating evacuation and the transportation risk …
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Incorporating equity into transportation plans: the case of pedestrian master plans
Equity is a long-recognized concern within the transportation sector, but there are no requirements for municipalities to address equity and no clear guidance for how to do so. This paper reviews fifteen pedestrian master plans to assess the equity considerations and to derive a tripartite …
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Can shippers and carriers benefit from more robust transportation planning methodologies?
The analysis of transportation contracts using optimization software may yield higher actual freight expenditures due to unplanned events during execution. This thesis explores new methods for developing robust transportation plans leading to lower total cost by developing a transportation plan …
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Strategies for the alleviation of traffic congestion in the central city of Athens
… the Athenians. The street network and the public transportation systems are not able to accommodate the existing traffic demands. An effort was made to address the transportation needs, that require an immediate solution, in the central Athens area. Traffic counts and physical characteristics were …
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Analysis of demand variability and robustness in strategic transportation planning
Creation of a long-term strategic transportation plan is critical for companies in order to make informed decisions about fleet capacity, number of drivers needed, fleet allocation to domiciles, etc. However, the inherent demand variability present on a transportation network, in terms of weekly …
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Network Models In Evacuation Planning
… analysis of optimization models for evacuation planning. Specifically we consider the cases of large-scale regional evacuation using household vehicles and hospital evacuation. Since it is difficult to estimate the exact number of people evacuating, we first consider the case where the …
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Implementing Transportation Planning With Older Adults After Driving Cessation: Observing Community Mobility, Social Participation, and Quality of Life
… This study explored potential best practices in transportation planning and the influence of transportation planning on older adults who are facing driving retirement, specifically in supporting social participation and quality of life and the impact on community mobility. Design: A descriptive …
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Determining relationships and policies that transit properties have with regional employers to increase ridership : a case of the Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Employer-based transportation demand management measures are increasingly seen by transportation planners as one of the potential means to manage the demand for private transport. These measures are essentially a comprehensive package of incentives and disincentives targeted at employees to …
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Order Fulfillment Algorithms for Online Retail
… that hold inventory (fulfillment centers), and a transportation network composed of node facilities and transportation arcs. To minimize the total transportation costs for order fulfillment, the online retailer should plan its transportation capacities properly in advance and execute according to …
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Benefits, Burdens, Perceptions, and Planning: Developing a New Environmental Justice Assessment Toolkit for Long Range Transportation Plans
… The purpose of this toolkit is to enable urban planners to more effectively measure whether environmental justice populations (low-income, non-white, Limited English proficiency, disabled, or elderly persons) are disproportionately burdened by long-range transportation plans. This toolkit is …
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Implications of uncertain future network performance on satisfying environmental justice and tolling
… and tolling as they relate to long-range transportation planning. While these topics are seemingly disparate, much of the work in this dissertation is motivated by the increasing number of roadway projects concessioned to the private sector, and the lack of tools available for evaluating …