As the applied fields of GIS are expanded to the transportation, developing internet-based applications for transportation information is getting attention increasingly. Most applications developed so far are primarily focused on guidance systems for privately-owned cars. Although some recent ones are devoted to public transportation systems, they show limitations in dealing with the following ...

Currently, large-scale transmissions of infectious diseases are becoming more closely associated with accelerated globalization and climate change, but quantitative analyses are still rare. By using an extensive dataset consisting of date and location of cases for the third plague pandemic from 1772 to 1964 in China and a novel method (nearest neighbour approach) which deals with both short- an...

Multi-agent transportation simulations represent travelers as individual “agents,” who make independent decisions about their actions. We are implementing such a simulation for all of Switzerland, which is composed of modules that model those decisions for each agent, such as: (i) Route planner: Generates routes. (ii) Micro-simulation: Executes routes simultaneously; computes agent interactions...

Safely avoiding accident prone routes is vital to maintaining safe and intelligent transportation. Real-time crowd sourcing of accident causing factors (e.g., icy roads, rain slicked road patches) combined with historical accident information can be utilized by intelligent navigation systems to avoid accident prone routes. A vehicle cloud can compute such safe routes and react faster than a cen...

This paper proposes a new formulation for the school bus scheduling problem (SBSP) which optimizes starting times for schools and associated bus routes to minimize transportation cost. Specifically, the problem determines the minimum number of buses required to complete all bus routes under the constraint that routes for the same school must arrive within a set time window before that school st...

Transportation efficiency is critical for the operation of cities and is attracting great attention worldwide. Improving the transportation efficiency can not only decrease energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions, but also accelerate people's interactions, which will become more and more important for sustainable urban living. Generally, traffic conditions in less-developed countries are no...

The Rational Locator Hypothesis posits that individuals can, if they choose, maintain approximately steady journey-to-work travel times by adjusting their home and workplace. This hypothesis was coupled with the observation of long-term stability in drive alone journey-to-work times in metropolitan Washington (those times were unchanged from 1957 through 1968 to 1988). Despite the increase of a...

This study aims to examine, regulate, and update the land transportation of Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality (EMM), Turkey using computerized calculation techniques. In line with these targets, some critical information has been obtained for study: number buses, expeditions, bus lines, maps existing routes belonging EMM. By that obtained, this at outlining specific outputs according input para...

Transportation is one of the important infrastructures constituting the base and requisite for different levels of people’s access and movement to various locations. Transportation systems are one of the indices of the development of a region. Optimizing these systems contributes to improving performance and reducing costs of offering services to users. Hence, methods should be adopted with whi...

Auction is a mechanism of selling distinct assets that can be both physical objects and virtual objects. Examples of virtual objects are the rights to use assets like airport time slots and FCC spectrum, or to service truckload delivery routes in a transportation network. Under some situations bidding on combinations of objects can render lower total price compare with bidding the objects one a...