Mathematical Methods on Optimization in Transportation Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Public Transport Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Managing and Preventing Delays in Railway Traffic by Simulation and Optimization

      • Leena Suhl, Taïeb Mellouli, Claus Biederbick, Johannes Goecke

      Pages 3-16

   3. Heuristics for Scheduling Buses and Drivers for an Ex-Urban Public Transport Company with Bus-Driver Dependencies

      • Taïeb Mellouli, Leena Suhl

      Pages 17-35

   4. Computer Aided Planning of Railroad Operation

      • Thomas Siefer, Dirk Hauptmann

      Pages 37-47

   5. Urban Multimodal Interchange Design Methodology

      • Ricardo García, Angel Marín

      Pages 49-79

   6. Park-and-Ride Station Catchment Areas in Metropolitan Rapid Transit Systems

      • Juan A. Mesa, Francisco A. Ortega

      Pages 81-93

   7. Hub Location Problems in Urban Traffic Networks

      • Stefan Nickel, Anita Schöbel, Tim Sonneborn

      Pages 95-107

   8. Stochastic assignment to high frequency transit networks: models, algorithms, and applications with different perceived cost distributions

      • Giulio Erberto Cantarella, Antonino Vitetta

      Pages 109-129

3. General Transport Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. When the Music’s over

      • Richard Clegg, Arthur Clune, Mike Smith

      Pages 133-145

   3. Algorithms for the Solution of the Combined Traffic Signal Optimisation and Equilibrium Assignment Problem

      • Mike Maher, Xiaoyan Zhang

      Pages 147-160

   4. Procedures for Designing Network Controls

      • Janet Clegg, Yanling Xiang

      Pages 161-174

   5. Approach to Congestion Optimum Toll in Traffic Networks

      • Manuel A. Gomez-Suarez, Luis P. Pedreira-Andrade, J. Antonio Seijas-Macias

      Pages 175-186

   6. A Dynamic Network Loading Model for Simulation of Pollution Phenomena

      • Mauro Dell’Orco

      Pages 187-201

   7. Stated Preference Study of Mode Choice in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

      • Jari Kurri, Juha Mikola, Nina Karasmaa

      Pages 203-223

   8. Effects of Data Accuracy in Aggregate Travel Demand Models Calibration with Traffic Counts

      • Michele Ottomanelli

      Pages 225-247

This book contains selected papers from the presentations given at the 7th EURO-Working Group Meeting on 'Iransportation, which took place at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland, during August 2-4, 1999. Altogether 31 presentations were given and 14 full papers have been selected in this publication through a peer review process coordinated by the editors. The papers in this book cover a wide range of transportation problems from the simulation of railway traffic to optimum congestion tolling and mode choice modeling with stated preference data. In general, the variety of papers clearly demonstrates the wide areas of interest of people who are involved in the research of transportation systems and their operation. They as well demonstrate the importance and possibilities of modeling and theoretical approaches in the analysis of transportation systems and problem solving. Most of the papers are purely theoretical in nature, that is, they present a theoretical model with only a hypothetical example of applica­ tion. There are, however, some papers, which are closer to the practice or describe applications of and give interesting results of studies made by known methodologies. It is especially noteworthy, that half of the accepted papers deal with planning and operation of public transport.

• Signal
• algorithm
• algorithms
• design
• model
• optimization
• simulation
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• complexity

• Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

  Matti Pursula, Jarkko Niittymäki

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