The highly mobile wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) are adapted to navigate the extreme environment of the Southern Ocean and return to isolated islands to breed. Each year they cover several hundreds of thousands of kilometers during travels across the sea. Little is known about the dispersal flights and migration of young albatrosses. We tracked, by satellite telemetry, the departure d...

In this work we present a model of an air transportation traffic system from the complex network modelling viewpoint. In the network, every node corresponds to a given airport, and two nodes are connected by means of flight routes. Each node is weighted according to its load capacity, and links are weighted according to the Euclidean distance that separates each pair of nodes. Local rules descr...

One of the more interesting advances in transportation over the past decade is the introduction of intelligent transportation systems. Of particular interest is the flurry of activity directed at developing advanced traveler information systems (ATISs), especially systems that provide in-vehicle navigation assistance to drivers. These systems are designed to “acquire, analyze, communicate, and ...

With the rapid adoption of mobile devices and location based services (LBS), applications provide with nearby information like recommending sightseeing resort are becoming more and more popular. In the mean time, traffic congestion in cities led to the development of mobile public transportation systems. In such applications, mobile devices need to communicate with servers via wireless communic...

Congestion pricing can potentially reduce congestion by providing incentives for drivers to shift trips to off-peak periods, use less congested routes, or use alternative modes, thereby spreading out demand for available transportation infrastructure. Congestion pricing also has the potential to create other benefits, such as generating revenue to help fund transportation investment. Possible c...

Governments offer subsidies along routes that are deemed commercially non-viable but economically and socially essential. Subsidised often criticised for inefficiencies excessive subsidies, which partly result from restrictions defined by transportation authorities during the tendering process, such as a maximum airfare minimum number of daily flights. We develop an integrated auction framework...