PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND STRUCTURING FOR REGIONAL TRANSPORT PLANNING

Literature search for research planning and identification of research problem

Literature search is a key step in performing good authentic research. It helps in formulating a research question and planning the study. The available published data are enormous; therefore, choosing the appropriate articles relevant to your study in question is an art. It can be time-consuming, tiring and can lead to disinterest or even abandonment of search in between if not carried out in ...

Structuring managerial problem situations

A planning problem combining optimal control and optimal transport

We consider some variants of the classical optimal transport where not only one optimizes over couplings between some variables x and y but also over some control variables governing the (possibly stochastic) evolutions of these variables with time. Such a situation is motivated by an assignment problem of tasks with workers whose characteristics can evolve with time (and be controlled). We dis...

Scenario Planning for Strategic Regional Transportation Planning

This paper proposes a framework for using business and organizational scenario-planning techniques for regional strategic transportation-planning purposes. The paper provides a brief history of scenario planning as it emerged from business-strategic planning activities and gives an overview of its goals and limitations. The paper then reviews the context for scenario planning in regional transp...

Structuring Problem Analysis for Embedded Systems Modelling

Our interest is embedded systems validation as part of the model-driven approach. To design a model, the modeller needs to obtain knowledge about the system and decide what is relevant to model and how. A part of the modelling activities is inherently informal it cannot be formalised in such a way to constitute a basis for automated model design. This does not mean that modelling has to be chao...