This study is an attempt to overcome the lack of reliable estimates on the willingness of Malaysian users to pay for public transportation (particularly buses) through a combined analysis of a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (F-AHP) and the Taguchi method. This is a ground-breaking study in the attempt to evaluate the bus users’ satisfaction factors based on the F-AHP, and find the pattern f...

In a world that is increasingly reliant on automobiles, efficient management of the transportation network is a key functionality of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). A wide range of these ITS applications rely on the extraction of current data as well as historical information in order to perform appropriately. This work presents a novel computer vision based approach for traffic manag...

We investigate a transportation problem with discontinuous piecewise linear cost function in this paper. The basic feasible solution for the transportation problem, in which flow bounds on edges are uncertain, is obtained by disaggregating piecewise linear cost function. A genetic algorithm is proposed to solve the transportation problem based on the network representation of the basic feasible...

In this paper an activity-based travel-demand model called AMOS is described. The model system is capable of simulating changes in individual activity and travel behavior that may be brought about by a change in the transportation system. These simulations may then be used to predict the impacts of various transportation policies on regionwide travel characteristics. A rule-based activityschedu...

The stochastic transportation problem involves in many areas such as production scheduling, facility location, resource allocation, logistics management. Constructing an operable solving method has important theoretical and practical value. In this paper, we first analyze the characteristic and deficiencies of the existing stochastic programming methods, such as higher computation complexity. W...

Highway transportation incidents are the leading cause of occupational fatalities in the United States, with the highest fatality rates occurring among workers aged ≥65 years. To characterize older workers at highest risk, CDC analyzed data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) for the period 2003-2010 and compared occupational highway transportation deaths among workers aged 55...

We analyze the global structure of the worldwide air transportation network, a critical infrastructure with an enormous impact on local, national, and international economies. We find that the worldwide air transportation network is a scale-free small-world network. In contrast to the prediction of scale-free network models, however, we find that the most connected cities are not necessarily th...

in a military organization, the role of transportation should be much more strong and strategic character for the organization. in this context, the evaluation of operating ability of transportation and eliminate defects and problems, can help the managers to improve performance and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of transportation in the assigned missions. in this study, a model is p...