lated this reduced highway need as 4.45 lane-miles (7), and crediting this saving to BART, the freeway-to-rail efficiency ratio changes from 25.2 to 25.1. Construction-energy is not the entire story, however. One must also consider operating-energy. The operating-energies of BART, buses, and cars are 4740, 2900, and 8310 Btu/PM, respectively, including both propulsion energy and a pro rata shar...

The potential growth of railway traffic is expected to be substantial worldwide; hence, railway companies and agencies are looking for better tools to allocate their capital investments to capacity planning in the best possible way. This paper presents a comprehensive decision support framework with three stand-alone tools for strategic railway capacity planning: (1) “Alternatives Generator,” w...

Activity-based models of travel demand have received considerable attention in transportation planning and forecasting over the last few decades. FEATHERS (The Forecasting Evolutionary Activity-Travel of Households and their Environmental Repercussions), developed by the Transportation Research Institute of Hasselt University, Belgium, is a micro-simulation framework developed to facilitate the...

Efficient public transportation is becoming increasingly vital for modern capitals. DSB S-tog a/s is the major supplier of rail traffic on the infrastructure of the city-rail network in Copenhagen. S-tog has experienced a demand for increasing volume and quality of the transportation offered to the customers, and has concurrently been met with demands for higher efficiency in the daily operatio...

Free trade agreements have been on the rise in all regions of the world in the past decade. This has allowed for global distribution and marketing of products in an international market. Products once produced for domestic markets must now be able to compete in international markets without trade barriers. Increased international commerce and manufacturing have forced many packaging and logisti...

Hazardous materials traffic originates and terminates at numerous different locations throughout the North American railroad network. Rerouting of this traffic, especially Toxic Inhalation Hazard materials, away from populated areas has received considerable attention in recent years as a means of reducing risk. However, rerouting on a route specific basis is neither simple nor necessarily effe...

In the literature, hub-networks have often been modeled such as only one mode is considered for all transportation. Also, consolidated demand flows are assumed to be transferred directly between each origin-destination hub pairs. The previous assumptions impose restrictions on practical applications of hub-networks. fact, various transport modes usually retained freight transport, and intermoda...

This paper presents a literature review of efficiency analysis in transportation systems (TS). It builds bibliometric published data-envelopment and, for the first time, stochastic frontier publications TS. The retrieved were separated into five groups: highway/road transportation, air maritime/port railway and urban/bus transportation. 135 data-envelopment-analysis rail-related surveyed to ass...