This thesis explores the application of scenario planning to regional strategic transportation planning (RSTP). Like all strategic planning, RSTP takes place in the presence of uncertainty, requiring flexibility and systematic thinking. The work presented builds on that of Mufioz in his application of scenarios to Mendoza, Argentina and the Cooperative Mobility Program ReS/SITE team's scenario-...

This paper presents a multi-agent system for planning, plan optimization and plan executionmonitoring in a real-time railroad transportation scenario. The planning process is implemented as incremental anytime algorithm that is capable of integrating new task specifications in the ongoing planning and planexecutionprocess. An initial solution is obtained by executing thecontractnet protocol for...

This work presents the MADARP agent architecture, devoted to the planning and scheduling of trip requests under a dynamic scenario within the context of passenger transportation systems. The architecture provides a set of base agents that perform the basic interface, planning and support services for managing different types of transportation requests by using a heterogeneous fleet of transport...

One of the current challenges in urban planning concerns the urban transportation involving multi-mode transportation. One of the ways to evaluate different situations in order to make decisions of how, when and where to invest is using multimodal traffic simulation. This paper presents a review about multimodal traffic simulation, identifying the state of art and directions for future work. Ke...

This paper focuses on Intermodal Freight Transportation broadly defined as a chain made up of several transportation modes that are more or less coordinated and interact in intermodal terminals to ensure door-to-door service. The goal of the chapter is to present intermodal transportation from both the supplier and the carrier perspectives, and identify important issues and challenges in design...

Fundamental to intermodal development is consistent demand modeling across the intermodal system, which coordinates resource allocation. However, different planning organizations are responsible for the development of different components of the intermodal system. In the case of air transportation, air demand modeling is mainly conducted by Federal Aviation Administration and commercial airline...

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One of the main critical steps that should be taken during natural disasters is the assignment and distribution of resources among affected people. In such situations, this can save many lives. Determining the demands for critical items (i.e., the number of injured people) is very important. Accordingly, a number of casualties and injured people have to be known during a disaster. Obtaining an ...

The urgency of the environmental debate has renewed the interest in the application of integrated models of urban land use and transportation. In the United States new legislation inspired by growing environmental awareness such as the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 requires that transportation planning must consider the interaction between transportation and land use ...