PLANNING TRANSPORTATION TERMINAL SYSTEMS IN URBAN REGIONS: A MAN-MACHINE INTERACTIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH

The problem addressed is that of locating transportation terminals in a large urban area. A man-machine interactive system, call LOCATOR, is developed and applied to a small test problem. The system permits the analyst to intuitively search a large combinatorial space in a conversational model with the computer. Initial exploratory experience leads to the development of two computer-based heuristic search techniques. Experiments show that the heuristic techniques are quite powerful but are not without weaknesses. Ten graduate students used the LOCATOR system to try to intuitively "find" a satisfactory solution to the test location problem. Nine of the ten were successful, and three of the ten found a solution identical to the best known solution. Possible extensions and applications of the LOCATOR system are briefly discussed.

• Authors:
  • Schneider, J B
  • Symons Jr, J G
  • Goldman, M
• Publication Date: 1972-9

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 257-273
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research /UK/
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Pergamon Press, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer models; Computer programming; Heuristic methods; Network analysis (Planning); Transportation; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00043999
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 1 1974 12:00AM