Computer-based Modelling and Optimization in Transportation

Identifying needs, checking the availability of resources, formulating frameworks of analysis, and evaluating methods are just some of the aspects involved in the decision making process, which is often reinforced by decision support techniques. In order to ensure that the right decisions are taken in the transportation field, it is important to be able to guarantee that the decision-making has been systematically followed. The chapters presented in this book: (1) introduce a decision support tool for evaluating maintenance strategies on road networks with incomplete data; (2) provide a general formulation for proper train load planning for maritime container terminals, as well as two other formulations for specific cases in which some unproductive operations or movements are not permitted; (3) develop a rule-based decision support system for improving the energy efficiency of passive temperature-controlled means of transport, and apply it to the case of liquid aluminium transport in Germany; (4) present an integrated numerical computing platform, using microscopic traffic and emission models, as a tool for traffic assignment taking into account eco-routing purposes; and (5) discuss the evaluation of the impact of changes before they are made in global operational planning in real-life conditions, and present a framework for their evaluation.

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  • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04630-3
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  Springer Publishing

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• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 490p
• Serial:
  • Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
  • Volume: 262
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • ISSN: 2194-5357
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/bookseries/11156

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Container terminals; Decision making; Decision support systems; Environmental policy; Liquid bulk cargo; Pollutants; Sustainable transportation; Traffic assignment
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01539547
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9783319046303
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 29 2014 10:04AM