This paper proposes a framework for using business and organizational scenario-planning techniques for regional strategic transportation-planning purposes. The paper provides a brief history of scenario planning as it emerged from business-strategic planning activities and gives an overview of its goals and limitations. The paper then reviews the context for scenario planning in regional transp...

Abstract: The first step in drafting policies for city building and town planning is to find what kinds of issues have proved to be controversial. Complexity within city planning for many unresolved, modern problems makes the issues more complicated than before. City planning issues have formed a complex, which is never resolved by conventional methods including interview surveying and question...

Path planning is the key task in the field of Robotics. The modelling environment and algorithm to find shortest, collision free path are the basic issues in the path planning problem of the robot motion planning. This paper presents a literature review of different path planning techniques in static as well as dynamic environment. Planning a path in static environment is easy as compared to dy...

new planning methodology for coping with this uncertainty caused by disruptions is presented. Planning steps described by their preconditions and their consequences are used for material requirements planning and scheduling. Preconditions of planning steps have to be satisfied in a certain state of environment for the planning steps to be applicable. Consequences of planning steps change the st...

Nationwide, one rescue worker is lost for every two victims rescued in collapsed structure situations; following Sept. 11, 2001, this ratio fell to 1:1. Limited physical facilities are available for training rescue workers in collapsed structure rescue. Our idea is to develop a training game for teaching collapsed structure rescue skills to members of emergency response community. In order to p...