Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks Theory and applications

"Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications" follows the book Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling, published in this series in 2004, recognizing the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems.

Conceived for the simulation of transit systems, in the last few years the schedule-based approach has been expanded and applied to operational planning of other transportation schedule services besides mass transit, e.g. freight transport. This innovative approach allows forecasting the evolution over time of the on-board loads on the services and their time-varying performance, using credible user behavioral hypotheses. It opens new frontiers in transportation modeling to support network design, timetable setting, and investigation of congestion effects, as well as the assessment of such new technologies, such as users system information (ITS technologies).

The schedule-based modeling of transportation systems: recent developments..- Passenger delay models for rail networks.- Multi-day dynamic transit assignment.- Schedule-based dynamic transit assignment.- The potential impact of automated data collection systems on urban public transport planning..- Using automated fare collection data, GIS, and dynamic schedule queries to improve transit data and transit assignment model..- Large-scale schedule-based transit assignment – further optimization of the solution algorithms.- Schedule-based transit assignment: new dynamic equilibrium model with vehicle capacity constraints.- MILATRAS: a new modeling framework for the transit assignment problem.- Simulation-based evaluation of Advanced Public Transportation Information Systems (APTIS).- The build-up of capacity problems during the peak hour.- Schedule-based passenger and freight mode choice models for ex- urban trips.- A schedule-based methodology proposal for Sea Motorways feasibility evaluation.- Estimation of target time distribution for agri-food products by road transport.- A macroscopic model of a container terminal based on diachronic networks.

Nigel H.M. Wilson is considered one of the leading researchers in the area of mass transit and Agostino Nuzzolo is very much a rising achiever in transportation research. They have attracted some well-established researchers to participate in the topical conference from which this volume is drawn.