PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSPORTATION HELD AT NEW DELHI, INDIA ON NOVEMBER 26-28, 1980. VOLUME I

The following topics were presented at the Conference: Location transportation problems (Location of schools--perspectives in urban transportation planning, A location-allocation study in a road transport corporation, A survey of methods for solving combined location-routing problems, On solving multi-source location problem on a sphere, A generalized reduced gradient based approach to round-trip location problem); Routing and Scheduling (Urban bus route rationalization, Simulation model for optical frequency of buses on a route, City bus transit network planning, A school busing system, Optimization of vehicle schedules for a road transport corporation, Pricing of bottlenecks at optimal time in a transportation problem); Transport systems modelling (On controlling total flow in transportation problems, The constrained maximum flow problem, Dynamic variants of the Lowry's model of metropolis - systems formulation and empirical implementation, Aggregate production and distribution planning in multi plant operating organization, Attractiveness of bus system - an application of information integration theory, Optimization of bus route network for a fixed spatial distribution, A strategy for combined selection of travel route and departure times from home during the peak period - a theoretical model); Traffic flow and control (The traffic flow process--an evaluation of queuing and lane-changing patterns based on a Markov model, Simulation of mixed vehicular traffic on single lane highway, and Propagation of density perturbations in traffic flow).

• Corporate Authors:

  Operational Research Society of India

  New Delhi,   India 
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Pagination: 385 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Bus transit; Bus transportation; Carpools; Cities; Conferences; Developing countries; Energy; Highway transportation; Intercity bus lines; Level of service; Mathematical models; Meetings; Optimization; Pavements; Productivity; Public transit; Railroad tracks; Railroad transportation; Roads; Routing; Rural areas; Scheduling; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation; Water transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Services; Transportation models
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus transportation (Intracity)
• Subject Areas: Energy; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00336220
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 21 1981 12:00AM