Transportation and Traffic Theory

Contains over 30 papers presented at ISTTT symposia, exploring solutions to the analysis of traffic and transportation problems through use of the models, methods and analyses. Divided into ten sections, this book addresses issues of safety, mobility, efficiency, productivity, planning and the environment.

Chapter headings and selected papers: Preface and Overview. Traffic Flow Models. Macroscopic traffic flow models: a question of order (J.P. Lebacque, J.B. Lesort). The lagged cell-transmission model (C.F. Daganzo). Traffic Flow Behaviour. Flows upstream of a highway bottleneck (G.F. Newell). Road Safety and Pedestrians. Bi-directional emergent fundamental pedestrian flows from cellular automata microsimulation (V.J. Blue, J.L. Adler). Flow Evaluation on Road Networks. Flow model and performability of a road network under degraded conditions (Y. Asakura et al.). Traffic Assignment. A doubly dynamic traffic assignment model for planning applications (V. Astarita et al.). Route flow entropy maximization in origin-based traffic assignment (H. Bar-Gera, D. Boyce). Traffic Demand, Forecasting and Decision Tools. The use of neural networks for short-term prediction of traffic demand (J. Barcelo, J. Casas). Algorithms for the solution of the congested trip matrix estimation problem (M. Maher, X. Zhang). Traffic Simulation. Microscopic online simulations of urban traffic (J. Esser et al.). Traffic Information and Control. Investigation of route guidance generation issues by simulation with DynaMIT (J. Bottom et al.). Optimal co-ordinated and integrated motorway network traffic control (A. Kotsialos et al.). Road Tolling and Parking Balance. Balance of demand and supply of parking spaces (W.H.K. Lam et al.). Traveller Survey and Transit Planning. The role of lifestyle and attitudinal characteristics in residential neighborhood choice (M.N. Bagley, P.L. Mokhtarian). Index.