For oversized cargo transportation, traditional transportation schemes only consider road length, road width, the transportation cost as weight values in analysis and calculation of route selection. However, for oversized trucks, turning direction at road intersections is also a factor worth considering. By introducing the classical algorithm of Dijkstra into the model of road network, this res...

It is a fact that the most delays in the Air Transportation System (ATS) today occur on the airport. One reason for this is the large number of actors operating at the airport and the scarcity of communication between them and other parts of the ATS. Airport Logistics is a concept developed to survey all the flows of vehicles, people, material and information, which can be found on and around t...

In this paper the authors deal with the scheduling of inbound and outbound trucks to the available inbound and outbound doors at a cross dock facility. They assume that all trucks served at the facility need to meet several deadlines for deliveries and pick-ups and thus request a departure time window from the facility, penalizing the facility operator, on a unit of time basis, if that deadline...

In order to improve the operating efficiency of mixture storage yard, the problem of multiple yard cranes scheduling (MYCS) must to be solved. The paper develops a multiple yard cranes scheduling MIP model in order to minimize the sum of trucks’ waiting cost and yard cranes’ moving cost. An important feature is that the future has to be taken into account: the interference between two yard cran...

We investigate the problem of scheduling the move of a large amount of military equipment from a fort or depot to a port. This problem differs from traditional distribution scheduling problems in a number of ways including: (i) the trucks need to be grouped into convoys, (ii) there is a single source location and a single destination, and (iii) there are potentially so many trucks traveling the...

This study was motivated by the need to develop a micro-geographic information system (GIS) to represent and analyze 3D spatial data for fire-fighting simulations. The proposed method involved exploration of a 3D geometric network model (GNM)-based, building information model (BIM)-supported framework for fire-fighting simulation. The operations of ladder trucks were simulated in a virtual 3D e...

Individual vehicle information, especially, vehicle classification data play a key role in Advanced Traffic Management and Information Systems (ATMIS). In inductive loop and piezo-sensor fusion systems, traffic data such as the vehicle length and the distance between axles are used for vehicle classification. However, classification errors often occur in distinguishing passenger cars from small...

Light trucks have doubled their share of the vehicle fleet from 1980 to 2004. This paper examines the effects of this increase on traffic safety, combining estimates from a state-level panel data set with an accident-level micro-data set. The results suggest that a one-percentage point increase in light truck share raises annual traffic fatalities by 0.34%, or 143 deaths per year. Of this incre...

Introduction Turning maneuvers with collisions between trucks turning right and cyclists usually have serious consequences for the vulnerable road user. In the past the safety of vulnerable road users was raised by an improvement of the truck driver's vision by increasing the number of mirrors and by equipping trucks with side underrun protection. Since turning accidents still happen and driver...