Over the past thirty-five years, a tremendous body of both theoretical and empirical research has been established on the `science of transportation'. The Handbook of Transportation Science has collected and synthesized this research into a systematic treatment of this field covering its fundamental concepts, methods, and principles. The purpose of this handbook is to define transportation as a scientific discipline that transcends transportation technology and methods. Whether by car, truck, airplane - or by a mode of transportation that has not yet been conceived - transportation obeys fundamental properties. The science of transportation defines these properties, and demonstrates how our knowledge of one mode of transportation can be used to explain the behavior of another. Transportation scientists are motivated by the desire to explain spatial interactions that result in movement of people or objects from place to place. Its methodologies draw from physics, operations research, probability and control theory. It is fundamentally a quantitative discipline, relying on mathematical models and optimization algorithms to explain the phenomena of transportation. The fourteen chapters in the handbook are written by the leading researchers in transportation science in an effort to define and categorize for the first time the scientific nature and state of the art of the field. As such, it is directed to the broader research community, transportation practitioners, and future transportation scientists.
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duty period network, network design formulation, crew pairing problem, average vehicle utilization, airbag mandate, average queue level, maximal covering problem, cumulative count curves, bulk service queues, network loading problem, ramp metering strategies, system optimal flows, universal choice set, network equilibrium models, time headway, alternative error terms, string stability, set partitioning formulation, choice set generation, restricted master problem, workload interval, street routing, merging vehicle, cumulative diagrams, service network design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Transportation Research, New York, Management Science, United States, Transpn Res, European Journal of Operational Research, John Wiley, Department of Transportation, Network Routing, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Université de Montréal, World Congress, Department of Mathematics, Highway Capacity Manual, Automated Highway Systems, Great Britain, Pergamon Press, Year Figure, Geographical Analysis, Institute of Transportation Studies, Plenum Press, Springer Verlag, American Control Conference, Annotated Bibliographies New!
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duty period network, network design formulation, crew pairing problem, average vehicle utilization, airbag mandate, average queue level, maximal covering problem, cumulative count curves, bulk service queues, network loading problem, ramp metering strategies, system optimal flows, universal choice set, network equilibrium models, time headway, alternative error terms, string stability, set partitioning formulation, choice set generation, restricted master problem, workload interval, street routing, merging vehicle, cumulative diagrams, service network design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Transportation Research, New York, Management Science, United States, Transpn Res, European Journal of Operational Research, John Wiley, Department of Transportation, Network Routing, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Université de Montréal, World Congress, Department of Mathematics, Highway Capacity Manual, Automated Highway Systems, Great Britain, Pergamon Press, Year Figure, Geographical Analysis, Institute of Transportation Studies, Plenum Press, Springer Verlag, American Control Conference, Annotated Bibliographies New!
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- Handbook of Transportation Science (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Randolph W. Hall on 7 pages
- Fleet Management and Logistics (Centre for Research on Transportation) by Teodor G. Crainic on 6 pages
- Annotated Bibliographies in Combinatorial Optimization (Wiley Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics) by Silvano Martello on 5 pages
- Vehicle Routing: Methods and Studies by Bruce L. Golden on 5 pages
- Combinatorial Optimization: Annotated Bibliographies by M. O'Heigeartaigh on 4 pages
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- Traffic Theory (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Denos C. Gazis in Front Matter, page 97, and page 239
- Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Randolph Hall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Transportation and Traffic Theory: Flow, Dynamics and Human Interaction (Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory) by HANI MAHMASSANI on page 425, and page 692
- Critical Infrastructures: State of the Art in Research and Application (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Wil A.H. Thissen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Tutorials on Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Operations Research: Presented at INFORMS 2004, Denver, CO (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Harvey J. Greenberg in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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