World Transport Research

World Transport Research
Author: David A. Hensher
Publisher: Pergamon
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780080427782

The first of a four-volume set of conference proceedings. This one covers travel behaviour, with 30 papers on the themes of behavioural modelling, safety, and mobility. GIS.

Route Choice

Route Choice
Author: Piet H. L. Bovy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1990-08-31
Genre: Science
ISBN:

With the ever increasing number of opportunities, in every aspect of modem life, making choices becomes part of our daily routine. It is thus only natural that social scientists have started to study human choice behavior. Early efforts focused on modeling aggregate choice patterns of home buyers, shoppers, travelers, and others. Later studies, aiming to achieve more realistic results, have concentrated on simula ting disaggregate behavior. The most recent approach in choice research is the so-called Discrete Choice Modeling. It is a front-line area mainly in contemporary transportation, geography, and behavioral research. It focuses on individuals' decision-making processes regarding the choice of destinations, modes, departure times, and routes. Considerable research has been done on identifying and quantify ing the general rules governing the individuals' choice behavior, but to the best of our knowledge there is no single book that solely deals with route choice. The study of travelers' route choice in networks is primarily oriented towards gaining insight into their spatial choice behavior. How do people choose routes in a network, what do they know, what do they look for, which road characteristics playa role? On the basis of this information it is possible to design quantitative models aimed at predicting the use of routes dependent on the characteristics of the routes, those of the surrounding environment, and those of the travelers. In this way, traffic flows in the network can be calculated and the network performance can be evaluated.

Interface and Transport Dynamics

Interface and Transport Dynamics
Author: Heike Emmerich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2003-09-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540403678

An overview of the recent progress of research in computational physics and materials science. Particular topics are modelling of traffic flow and complex multi-scale solidification phenomena. The sections introduce novel research results of experts from a considerable diversity of disciplines such as physics, mathematical and computational modelling, nonlinear dynamics, materials sciences, statistical mechanics and foundry technique. The book intends to create a comprehensive and coherent image of the current research status and illustrates new simulation results of transport and interface dynamics by high resolution graphics. Various possible perspectives are formulated for future activities. Special emphasis is laid on exchanging experiences concerning numerical tools and on the bridging of the scales as is necessary in a variety of scientific and engineering applications. An interesting possibility along this line was the coupling of different computational approaches leading to hybrid simulations.

World Transport Research

World Transport Research
Author: David A. Hensher
Publisher: Pergamon
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The first of a four-volume set of conference proceedings. This one covers travel behaviour, with 30 papers on the themes of behavioural modelling, safety, and mobility. GIS.