During the last three decades motion planning has emerged as a crucial and productive research area in robotics. In the mid-80's the most advanced planners were barely able to compute collision-free paths for objects crawling in planar workspaces. Today, planners eeciently deal with robots with many degrees of freedom in complex environments. Techniques also exist to generate quasi-optimal traj...

Schematic maps are an important component of assistance for navigating transport networks worldwide. By showing routes as simple straight lines, they reduce the cognitive load of journey planning, and by revealing the underlying structure of networks, they make their key features easier to identify and learn. However, although there are many suggestions for optimizing schematic maps so as to ma...

Efficient public transport (PT) networks are vital for well-functioning and sustainable cities. Compared to other modes of transport, PT networks feature inherent systemic complexity due to their scheduledependence and network organization. Because of this, efficient PT network planning and management calls for advanced modeling and analysis tools. These tools have to take into account how peop...

the present paper investigates into one of the important subject in mystic conduct i.e. panoramic journey within mystical texts up to hegira 7th century (14th ad century). after purposing an introduction about this journey, author deals with definition of (mystic) conduct and wayfaring and history of journey in quran and islamic traditions (hadith) and explained them briefly. the author has als...

The goal of this paper is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) as a journey planner in complex and large multimodal urban network called Rahyar. Rahyar attempts to identify the most desirable itinerary among all feasible alternatives. The desirability of an itinerary is measured by a disutility function, which is defined as a weighted sum of some criteria. The weight...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Lauri Häme Name of the doctoral dissertation Demand-Responsive Transport: Models and Algorithms Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 80/2013 Field of research Mathematics Manuscript submitted 18 January 2013 Date of the...