Network Reliability in Practice: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (Transportation Research, Economics and Policy) [Hardcover]

David M. Levinson (Editor), Henry X. Liu (Editor), Michael Bell (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2011 | ISBN-10: 1461409462 | ISBN-13: 978-1461409465 | Edition: 2012

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010.  International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the reliability of transportation networks in order to illustrate both vulnerability to day-to-day and unpredictability variability and risk in travel, and demonstrates strategies for addressing those issues.  The scope of the chapters includes all aspects of analysis and design to improve network reliability, specifically user perception of unreliability of public transport, public policy and reliability of travel times, the valuation and economics of reliability, network reliability modeling and estimation, travel behavior and vehicle routing under uncertainty, and risk evaluation and management for transportation networks.  The book combines new methodologies and state of the art practice to model and address questions of network unreliability, making it of interest to both academics in transportation and engineering as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

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This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010.  International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the reliability of transportation networks in order to illustrate both vulnerability to day-to-day and unpredictability variability and risk in travel, and demonstrates strategies for addressing those issues.  The scope of the chapters includes all aspects of analysis and design to improve network reliability, specifically user perception of unreliability of public transport, public policy and reliability of travel times, the valuation and economics of reliability, network reliability modeling and estimation, travel behavior and vehicle routing under uncertainty, and risk evaluation and management for transportation networks.  The book combines new methodologies and state of the art practice to model and address questions of network unreliability, making it of interest to both academics in transportation and engineering as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 267 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2012 edition (October 25, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1461409462
• ISBN-13: 978-1461409465
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

More About the Author

I hold the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota and director of the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (NEXUS) research group.

In January 2005 I was awarded the CUTC/ARTBA New Faculty Award. I earned a Ph.D in Transportation Engineering at U.C. Berkeley in 1998. My dissertation "On Whom the Toll Falls", argues that local decision making about managing and financing roads will be more likely to lead to direct road pricing, which will allow the efficient allocation of scarce road resources (and thus reduce congestion). I have conducted research into travel behavior. I received the 1995 Tiebout Prize in Regional Science for my paper "Location, Relocation, and the Journey to Work". From 1989 to 1994, I worked as a transportation planner, developing integrated transportation - land use models used in Montgomery County, Maryland and applying those models for multimodal network planning and for growth management.