Understanding the sensitivity of gasoline demand to changes in prices and income has important implications for policies related to climate change, optimal taxation and national security, to name only a few. While the short-run price and income elasticities of gasoline demand in the United States have been studied extensively, the vast majority of these studies focus on consumer behavior in the...

This paper concentrates on the dualistic role of transportation as a pro-active agent of globalization and as a beneficiary of its development. Surprisingly, transportation is possibly the least researched element in the complex of factors that foster a changing world economy. The goal is to suggest areas that require an informed social science perspective based on research that will enhance th...

Online markets for transportation services, in the form of Internet sites that dynamically match shipments (shippers’ demand) and transportation capacity (carriers’ offer) through auction mechanisms are changing the traditional structure of transportation markets. A general framework for the study of carriers’ strategies in a transportation auction marketplace is provided. The unique characteri...

The transportation problems are primarily concerned with the optimal way in which products produced at different plants (supply origins) are transported to a number of warehouses or customers (demand destinations). The objective in a transportation problem is to fully satisfy the destination requirements within the operating production capacity constraints at the minimum possible cost. The obje...

The last-mile problem refers to the provision of travel service from nearest public transportation node home or other destination. Last-Mile Transportation Systems (LMTS), which have recently emerged, provide on-demand shared transportation. In this paper, we investigate fleet sizing and allocation for LMTS. Specifically, consider perspective a provider who wants determine number servicing vehi...

Activity-based transportation models have set the standard for modelling travel demand for the last decade. It seems common practice nowadays to collect the data to estimate these activity-based transportation models by means of activitytravel diaries. This paper presents a general functional framework of an advanced activity-travel diary data collection application to be deployed on a GPS-enab...