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What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences
Mathematicians like to point out that mathematics is universal. In spite of this, most people continue to view it as either mundane (balancing a checkbook) or mysterious (cryptography). This fifth volume of the What's Happening series contradicts that view by showing that mathematics is indeed found everywhere-in science, art, history, and our everyday lives. Here is some of what you'll find in this volume: Mathematics and Science Mathematical biology: Mathematics was key tocracking the genetic code. Now, new mathematics is needed to understand the three-dimensional structure of the proteins produced from that code. Celestial mechanics and cosmology: New methods have revealed a multitude of ...
Forecasting Travel in Urban America
A history of urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present. For better and worse, the automobile has been an integral part of the American way of life for decades. Its ascendance would have been far less spectacular, however, had engineers and planners not devised urban travel demand modeling (UTDM). This book tells the story of this irreplaceable engineering tool that has helped cities accommodate continuous rise in traffic from the 1950s on. Beginning with UTDM’s origins as a method to help plan new infrastructure, Konstantinos Chatzis follows its trajectory through new generations of models that helped make optimal use of e...
Modelling and implementation of a microscopic traffic simulation system
This thesis presents the foundations, the initial state, and the progress made in modelling and implementing a real-world and real-time online microscopic traffic simulation system for highway traffic. To successfully model and implement such a simulation system, this thesis recommends the use of a number of formal methods applied at the right places. As part of the recommendation, this thesis proposes a microscopic traffic simulation system. To explore the feasibility and the potential of the recommended methods, it observes and examines the proposed system from multiple views and under various different aspects. As part of the examination, this thesis provides a (semi-)formal specification...
Metropolitan Research
Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this scope of disciplinary – and increasingly also interdisciplinary – approaches that allows metropolitan research to address recent societal challenges of urban life, such as mobility, health, diversity or sustainability.
Elements of Success
This paper describes the elements of success in a major research project undertaken by a federal laboratory, in partnership with state and local transportation agencies, and sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. The research project is TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System (TRANSIMS), the largest civilian transportation simulation research and development project in the history of the United States, or any other nation. This paper explores why the project succeeded, beginning with the concept and design in November 1991, through initial federal funding in March 1993, to the research program and products today. The elements of success may be helpful to other state and federal research initiatives. Understanding success is particularly important in the design and conduct of research that is high risk and high payoff. This is the type of research well suited to the federal laboratories. TRANSIMS is one example of how to effectively engage the research capabilities of our federal laboratories to meet an urgent transportation need.
Traffic Flow Theory
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Advances in Travel Behavior Analysis, 2007
TRR no. 2021 includes 14 papers that explore intrahousehold interaction analysis, agent-oriented coupling of activity-based demand generation with multiagent traffic simulation, modeling adults' weekend day-time use, human interaction spaces under uncertainty, and analysis of children's daily time-use and activity patterns. This issue of the TRR also examines a stated adaptation survey of activity rescheduling; recurrence of daily travel patterns; interactions between residential relocations, life course events, and daily commute distances; capturing human activity spaces; identifying skeletal information of activity patterns; successfully changing individual travel behavior; mobility management in Japan; who chooses to carpool and why; and commuter parking versus transit-oriented development.
