URBAN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

The book presents the basis of a course intended to provide relevant analytical skills, and also an awareness of, institutional and environmental issues arising in urban situations and focuses on certain urban service systems including delivery services, emergency services, transport services, street maintenance and social services. The following chapters discuss various aspects: 1) introduction; 2) brief review of probabilistic modeling; 3) functions of random variables and geometrical probability; 4) introduction to queueing theory and its applications; 5) spatially distributed queues; 6) applications of network models; 7) simulation in the urban context; and, 8) implementation. (TRRL)

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  Prentice-Hall, Incorporated

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  Englewood Cliffs, NJ  United States  07632
• Authors:
  • Larson, R C
  • Odoni, A R
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 573 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Delivery service; Disasters and emergency operations; Hazards and emergency operations; Highway maintenance; Length; Mathematical models; Minimization; Networks; Operations research; Probability; Public transit; Queuing; Queuing theory; Roads; Service agencies; Simulation; Social service; Textbooks; Theory; Traffic; Traffic assignment; Training simulators; Travel; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Minimum; Probabilistic analysis; Road networks; Transportation networks
• Old TRIS Terms: Queueing theory; Street maintenance
• ITRD Terms: 284: Delivery; 698: Journey; 6488: Length; 6473: Mathematical model; 9046: Minimum; 1054: Network (traffic); 9055: Operational research; 744: Public transport; 6594: Queue; 9103: Simulation; 8526: Textbook; 9078: Theory; 755: Traffic; 679: Traffic assignment; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387996
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-13-939447-8
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM