Policy planners often lack guidance in their approach to meet sustainability goals in transportation. Considering the multiplicity of actors involved and challenges to be met, as well as the intertwined impacts of transportation, a more widespread use of causal chain analysis seems relevant to improve the decision-making process. This paper illustrates the usefulness of the causal chain approac...

ÐThe form of a city has a major impact on the lifestyles of its residents. As urban centers grow, careful strategies are required to ensure that the regional quality of life is not adversely a€ected by this growth. An important strategic consideration is transportation planning. Questions regarding the sustainability of dispersed car dependent urban forms have led to a renewed interest in publi...

To predict the effects of governmental control policies regarding transportation, macro-level simulation is often used. However, macro-level simulation cannot capture the decision making of individual actors involved in a transport chain. In this paper we discuss how a micro-level simulator, called TAPAS (Transportation And Production Agent-based Simulator), which is based on agent technology c...

This article aims at identifying the research issues and challenges that need to be addressed to achieve sustainable transportation system for Indian cities. The same is achieved by understanding the current system and trends of urbanization, motorization and modal shares in India; and their impact on mobility and safety (the two basic goals of transportation) as well as environment. Further, t...

In response to The Rio Agenda 21 and The Kyoto Protocol, Taiwan government has formulated important policies and set up implementation guidelines for national sustainable development over the past few years. This paper presents the policies and strategies that Taiwan has endeavored to pursue environmental, social, and economic sustainability. In transportation sector, some important undertaking...

Food as perishable goods represents a specific and sensitive part in the supply chain theory, since changing physical or chemical characteristics considerably influence the approach to stock management. The most delicate phase of this process is transportation, where it becomes difficult to ensure the stable conditions which limit deterioration, since the value of the deterioration rate could b...

today, transportation of hazardous materials (i.e., hazmat) is a very important issue for researchersdue to the risk of this transit, which should be considered for development of industries and transportation.therefore, a model that is useful should consider the risk and damage to humanitarianand environmental issues due to transit of hazmat materials. by considering the related cost, thereali...