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Journey planning is the key to an efficient andsustainable transportation system in a smart city. A good journeyplanner is expected to help commuters travel safely, comfortablyand quickly, as well as keep the whole transportation networkrunning efficiently. In modern cities, it should be able to combinea wide range of private and public transport modes, and moreimportantly, react to real-time events...
We analyze the work of urban trip planners and the relevance of trips they recommend upon user queries. We propose to improve the planner recommendations by learning from choices made by travelers who use the transportation network on the daily basis. We analyze a large collection of individual travelers' trips collected from the automated fare collection systems; we convert the trips into pair-wise...
Multi and intermodal freight transportation refers to moving loads by a sequence of transportation modes linked by mode-to-mode transfers performed at intermodal terminals, generally without directly handling the goods. Such transportation systems and the carriers that provide the associated services are often organized according to consolidation principles. Consolidation of the shipments of different...
Nobody likes sitting in a car which is in a traffic jam. If you are in a traffic jam, you think over the opportunities how you could escape from it as soon as possible. In this paper, an imaginary system is introduced which supports the car drivers of a city. The intelligent route planner system could show how you can more easily avoid the traffic jams of the city. Moreover, it provides other actual...
There are several kinds of envisioned vehicular applications: video delivery, accidents detection, dissemination of traffic announcements, and so forth. Such applications demand minimal (and possibly distinct) QoS guarantees that must couple the vehicular network. Given that vehicular networks will soon become reality, we demand strategies for planning and managing such networks. In this work we propose...
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a high quality bus based transit system which has been identified by the Ministry of Transport, Sri Lanka as an effective transport solution for urbanized areas. Demand estimation for the BRT is a key element in operational planning as it becomes a primary criterion for selection of vehicles, scheduling of services, determination of fleet size and the design stations etc...
Until the year 2020, Germany has established a national development plan with the goal to push one million fully electric vehicles into use. Part of the plan is to establish a number of federally funded research projects which investigate and tackle domain specific problems, e.g. the limited driving range of electric cars. Freight traffic is especially hampered by those range restrictions. The Smart...
People are constantly inventing new ways of reducing traffic in big cities and encouraging the use of public transport. The idea of park-and-ride facilities is to increase the usage of public transport. However, it imposes additional problems for a driver to plan her trip and does not state clear benefits of using the approach. We developed a seamless solution to guide a user to public transport transfer...
A number of cities around the world have adopted urban consolidation centres (UCCs) to address some challenges of their last-mile deliveries. At the UCC, goods are consolidated based on their destinations prior to their deliveries into the city centre. In many examples, the UCC owns a fleet of eco-friendly vehicles to carry out the deliveries. A carrier/shipper who buys the UCC's service hence no...
In recent years, the “on demand transport-ODT” systems are increasingly popular in many cities around the world. An ODT system is defined by three components: the infrastructure of the city, the vehicles and the clients requests. Clients formulate requests for transportation between a pickup and a drop off places. These requests must be served in time by satisfying a set of constraints. We propose...
The proper planning of the general strategies for road marking is not dependent on the transport planning only, but it is directly related to health, social, physical and economic aspects and issues, and which have a negative impact on the development of communities. Cause random planning and incompatibility with the road specifications within Misurata city in the deterioration of social development...
Nowadays traffic jam becomes a serious problem and also one of the major bottlenecks that restrict the city's development. ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) is proposed to deal with this problem, which generally combines computer science, information system, communication and control technologies. However, many cities in the world have become so crowded in the peak time that most available route...
More than 110,000 PEVs are on the road in the United States, and the number of PEVs worldwide is rapidly growing. In parallel the U.S. is reaching the end of a large-scale PEV infrastructure investment. As this round of federal funding ends and these vehicles continue to sell, planning on the national scale will begin. It is important for key stakeholders to understand the number and relative location...
An Emergency Traffic Evacuation Management Platform is developed in this paper to support evacuation planning and decision making for city managers. The platform is based on Eclipse RCP, a programming framework kept updating by the Eclipse RCP open source project. Architecture design and implementation of the platform are mainly discussed. Modularization is the basic idea when building the platform...
The aim of this paper is to find the optimal location of electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations by means of two methodologies: a classical flow-capturing optimization model involving only mobility needs, and an advanced flow-capturing optimization model including distribution network and location costs. While the first model aims to maximize the public service provided by the fast charging stations,...
Public bike system for proximity travel is widely used in urban cities all over the world. Main reasons for launching public bike program is to reduce carbon footprint so as to prevent greenhouse effect and to solve Last-Mile problem in order to make convenient for citizens. However, we may encounter awkward cases in peak hours (from 7:00 to 9:00 and 17:00 to 19:00) that no bike is available at some...
Nowadays transportation systems suffer from many adversities. One of the most notorious issues is the traffic congestion. The transportation of persons and goods experiment notable delays with the consequent waste of precious resources and the rise of pollution. Actual Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS) are intended to relief the broad spectrum of challenges that affect our modern traffic infrastructures...
Electric Vehicles (EV) are promoted world-wide as an effective approach to address gasoline consumption and transportation emission problems. In China, state-owned electric power companies are taking the lead in Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure area, in which the EV charging facility network construction is a key topic. This paper introduces a quantitative EV charging facility planning...
Constructing harmonious traffic is the momentous content of building socialistic harmonious society.Traffic problems in Chinese cities are mainly embodied in the contradictions between the increasing traffic requirements of people and the traffic supply can not meeting the requirements. Therefore harmonious urban traffic should be constructed on human-oriented, solving the contradictions between the...
The CCP Central Committee Decision on Several Issues Related to Promoting Reform and Development for Suburban Areas, passed by the 17th National CCP Congress, stated that China has entered a new and dynamic era in which the development of agriculture is driven by industrial advancement, that is to say suburban areas are led by urban areas, intertwining the two and forcing an increasingly greater need...
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