one of the most important issues in urban planning is developing sustainable public transportation. the basic condition for this purpose is analyzing current condition especially based on data. data mining is a set of new techniques that are beyond statistical data analyzing. clustering techniques is a subset of it that one of it’s techniques used for analyzing passengers’ trip. the result of t...

Comprehensive transportation network layout planning should pay more attention to the coordination and connection of various means of transport. In the course of layout planning, it is very necessary to consider all the views of experts from different domains. Based on analyzing the procedure and the characteristics of the comprehensive transportation network layout planning, this paper firstly...

This Chapter focuses on Intermodal Freight Transportation, broadly defined as the transportation of a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation modes, the transfer from one mode to the next being performed at an intermodal terminal. Container-based transportation services are an important part of intermodal transportation and the backbone of internatio...

The author examines methods for a special class of path planning problems in which the routes are constrained. General search algorithms assume that we can move around in the traffic network freely, so they extend the partial paths from the very last location to each of its neighbors to form more partial paths. The best partial paths are then selected to expand, unless the selected partial path...

Each year, more than three million animals are transported from farms to abattoirs in Sweden. Animal transport is related to economic and environmental costs and a negative impact on animal welfare. Time and the number of pick-up stops between farms and abattoirs are two key parameters for animal welfare. Both are highly dependent on efficient and qualitative transportation planning, which may ...

Policy makers and researchers are increasingly recognizing the connections between public health and transportation, but health improvements are typically framed from a physical health perspective rather than considering broader quality of life (QOL) impacts. Currently, there is a limited understanding of the ways in which transportation and QOL intersect, and little is known about how metropol...

The integrated operational transportation planning problem extends the traditional vehicle routing and scheduling problem by the possibility of outsourcing a part of the requests by involving subcontractors. The purpose of this paper is to present the integrated planning problem and to propose an approach for solving it by a tabu search heuristic. Existing approaches from literature which discu...

The paper reviews the relationship between spatial and transportation planning in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region of Sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that most urbanisation in the region has largely occurred subsequent to the 1950s and, accordingly, urban development has been profoundly and negatively affected by the (misguided) spatial and institutional tenets of modernis...

Transportation planning models are typically used to estimate future traffic patterns, peak period traffic, travel time, and various environmental or other related traffic flow characteristics. Unfortunately, traffic safety is seldom, if ever, explicitly considered proactively during the transportation planning process. This omission is attributed to various factors, including the lack of avail...

1 Planning and operating effective transportation networks rely heavily on the knowledge of current 2 and future transport patterns, which in turn relies on the current and future land use and urbanization 3 levels of an area. However, while various organizations have developed classification schemes to classify 4 areas by urbanization levels, there has been no literature to assess the suitabil...