EditorialFeature issue on “Traffic and transportation modelling”
Section snippets
Traffic modelling
The paper “Motorway traffic parameters estimation from mobile phone counts” by Astarita, Bertini, d’Elia and Guido proposes a method to estimate the traffic flow and density on a motorway using cellular phones on board of vehicles. The paper by Dell’Orco “A dynamic network loading model for mesosimulation in transportation systems” presents a new traffic simulation model based on discrete “packet”, considering an uniform acceleration of vehicles. The work by García, Luz Lopez, Niño, and
Travel demand estimation and forecasting methods
The problems related to travel demand are discussed at different levels and approaches. Random utility based sequential models for the simulation of trip-chains is the topic of the paper “Experimental tour-based travel demand models” by Festa, Condino and Mazzulla, where some experimental results obtained for a medium-sized town case study are reported. The paper by Codina, Garcı´a and Marı´n entitled “New algorithmic alternatives for the O-D matrix adjustment problem on traffic networks”
Route choice modelling
Another topic faced in this issue concerns route choice and vehicle routing problems. The papers selected addressed the research towards both passenger and freight transport. With respect to freight transport, two papers have been selected: the paper “Fuzzy graph modelling for hazardous material telegeomonitoring” by Boulmakoul and the paper “A stochastic route choice model in optimal control of road freight flows: a Mexican case study” by Moreno-Quintero. The first one refers to hazardous
Traffic assignment
The paper “User equilibrium traffic network assignment with stochastic travel times and late arrival penalty” by Watling also deals with traffic assignment and uncertainty: starting from the classical User Equilibrium problem, he proposes an interesting new model (named LAPUE) which is able to incorporate drivers aversion to the risk of late arrival, in the face of uncertain travel times. The contribution “A demand model with departure time choice for within-day dynamic traffic assignment” by
Public transport
The goal of optimizing the many elements of a public transport system have also been undertaken in this set of contributions. In their work “A two-phase insertion technique of unexpected customers for a dynamic dial-a-ride problem” the authors Coslovich, Pesenti and Ukovich describe a two-phase insertion optimization technique based on route perturbations to solve, in real-time, unexpected customers in a single-vehicle dial-a-ride service. The article “A time-space network based exact
Traffic control strategies
A timely overview on the applications of the signal control strategy TUC is given by Dinopoulou, Diakaki and Papageorgiou in the paper “Applications of the urban traffic control strategy TUC”, where basic philosophy, design methodology, characteristics are analysed and results from applications in both simulated and field conditions are presented. The interesting paper “Intelligent parking systems” by Teodorović and Lučić faces the problem of dynamic parking space inventory control. A procedure
Transport systems planning and simulation
This issue covers also approaches in network design, transportation planning and terminal management simulation. The paper “Heuristics for urban road network design: lane layout and signal settings” by Cantarella, Pavone and Vitetta deals with the problem of combined design of network topology and signal settings. They compare the performances of different metaheuristics algorithms by application to two urban networks. The paper “A decision support approach for the evaluation of transport
References (2)
- Proceedings of the 13th Mini-EURO Conference on “Handling Uncertainty in the Analysis of Traffic and Transportation...
- Feature Cluster on Traffic and Transportation Systems Analysis, M. Bielli, Guest Editor, EJOR vol. 155, no. 3, 16 June...
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