Introduction to Transportation Analysis, Modeling and Simulation

1. Front Matter

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2. Computational Foundation in Transportation and Transportation Systems Modeling

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   Pages 1-43

3. Transportation Models

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   Pages 45-108

4. Traffic Assignments to Transportation Networks

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   Pages 109-137

5. Integration Framework and Empirical Evaluation

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   Pages 139-194

6. Simulation Tools in Transportation

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7. Transportation Use Cases

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8. Back Matter

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This comprehensive textbook/reference provides an in-depth overview of the key aspects of transportation analysis, with an emphasis on modeling real transportation systems and executing the models. Topics and features: presents comprehensive review questions at the end of each chapter, together with detailed case studies, useful links, references and suggestions for further reading; supplies a variety of teaching support materials at the book’s webpage on Springer.com, including a complete set of lecture slides; examines the classification of models used for multimodal transportation systems, and reviews the models and evaluation methods used in transportation planning; explains traffic assignment to road networks, and describes computer simulation integration platforms and their use in the transportation systems sector; provides an overview of transportation simulation tools, and discusses the critical issues in the design, development and use of the simulation models.

• Demand Models
• Evaluation and Comparison Methods
• Mathematical Description of Systems
• Network Flow Theory Models
• Optimization
• Queuing Theory Models
• Simulation
• Traffic Flow Theory
• Transportation Systems Analysis
• Transportation Systems Model Building
• Engineering Economics

• Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

  Dietmar P.F. Möller

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar P.F. Möller is a Full Professor in the Institute of Applied Stochastics and Operations Research at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, a Member of the Simulation Science Center Clausthal-Göttingen, Germany, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

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