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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"transportation modeling"”.
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Enhanced Air Transportation Modeling Techniques for Capacity Problems
Effective and efficient air transportation systems are crucial to a nation's economy and connectedness. These systems involve capital-intensive facilities and equipment and move millions of people and tonnes of freight every day. As air traffic has continued to increase, the systems necessary to …
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Smart City Energy Efficient Multi-Modal Transportation Modeling and Route Planning
… a shift to more sustainable and less polluting transportation modes. Cities and urban areas are more concerned because their population currently comprises over half of the world's population. Sustainable transportation modes such as cycling, walking, and use of public transit and electric …
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Some wood-transportation modeling problems associated with Quebec's new land-management system
… Canada's Quebec Province and the methods of wood transportation associated with it. Each of these wood-transportation methods is weighed, and its future under the New Land-Management System proposed by the Department of Lands and Forests is assessed. This New Land-Management System is analyzed, …
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Air Transportation Modeling to Evaluate Airport Runway Infrastructure and Supersonic Transport Demand
… and rigorously studied through simulation and modeling with the transition to more advanced air transportation systems. This dissertation addresses two relevant problems in air transportation: airport runway infrastructure evaluation and the prediction of worldwide demand for future supersonic …
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Modeling inundation impacts on transportation network performance : a GIS and four-step transportation modeling analysis
… availability and quality of network assets (i.e. Transportation Supply) and inhabitable land, which produces and attracts transportation users (i.e. Demand). In this thesis, I apply an altered four-step transportation modeling method to allow for the analysis of impacts in a single set time: …
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Understanding human mobility patterns from digital traces
… computing have provided new data sources for transportation modeling. In this thesis, two mainstream trends in utilizing digital traces in transportation modeling are explored. The first approach is to incorporate mobile phone records and digital map point of interests into commuting flow …
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Cell phone location data for travel behavior analysis
… data presents exciting new opportunities to plan transportation infrastructure and services that meet the mobility needs and challenges associated with increasing travel demand. But to realize these benefits, methods must be developed to utilize and integrate this data into existing urban and …
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Algorithms for bundling and pricing trucking services: Deterministic and stochastic approaches
… tools include: advanced econometrics, network modeling, statistical network analysis, combinatorial optimization, and stochastic optimization. The dissertation is organized as follows. Chapter 1 introduces the problem and related concepts. Chapter 2 studies the attributes driving the selection …
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Incorporating livability benefits into the Federal Transit Administration New Starts project evaluation process through accessibility-based modeling
The Department of Transportation's announcement of the "Livability initiative" for major transit projects in January 2010 has prompted the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to reassess the criteria used in the evaluation of New Starts projects. There is concern that the evaluation criteria for …
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The dynamics of activity-making and travel
Transportation modeling has played a key role in how decision makers and planners make decisions for transport networks and cities. With the increase in available technology, the complexity of the designed interventions is growing. To complement and inform these decisions, transportation models …
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Development of a multivariate logistic model to predict bicycle route safety in urban areas
In response to the renewed appreciation of the benefits of bicycling to the environment and public health, public officials across the nation are working to establish new bicycle routes. During the past two decades, a number of methods have been endorsed for the selection of "suitable" bicycle …
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Integrated urban transportation and land use modeling by application of system dynamics
… feedback structure linking land use and transportation planning. Integrating algorithms for land use allocation, mode choice, and route selection is the next step required for comprehensive urban planning. However, any integration of existing models still requires exogenous estimates of …
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Large-Scale Modeling of Smart Cities Considering the Mutual Impact of Transportation and Communication Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) are key components of the transportation systems within future smart cities, in which information and communication technologies interact to enhance the transportation system. By collecting and analyzing real-time data, and applying advanced data analytics …