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Evaluation Of Truck Restrictions Using Simulation, Shaikh Mohamed Arif
Evaluation Of Truck Restrictions Using Simulation, Shaikh Mohamed Arif
Theses
Traffic congestion is a major problem in many central business districts. Many strategies have been proposed and implemented to solve or alleviate this problem. One of the most common strategies is to impose travel restrictions on the movement of trucks, without reviewing the economic consequences of goods movement restrictions on shippers, customers and on the overall business activity of the area.
This research examines the effect of various truck restrictive policies on the cost of urban goods movement, using the central business district of Manhattan as a case study. Computer simulation techniques are used to evaluate several scenarios under different …
A Planning Model For Intermodal Auto-Rail Transportation Assignment, Daniel Disario
A Planning Model For Intermodal Auto-Rail Transportation Assignment, Daniel Disario
Theses
This thesis presents a planning model for assigning trips in a corridor served by highways and commuter rail. The underlying assumption is that commuters will choose a mode (or a combination of modes) connecting the origin and destination in a way that will either minimize their individual travel times and costs (the user equilibrium principle) or minimize total system travel time and cost (system optimal principle). The model is structured as a mathematical program with a non-linear objective function and linear constraints.
The model was applied to a case study of the Raritan Valley Corridor located in Northern New Jersey. …
Development Of A Composite User Equilibrium And System Optimization Assignment Model, Kimberly M. Stump
Development Of A Composite User Equilibrium And System Optimization Assignment Model, Kimberly M. Stump
Theses
The Urban Transportation Modeling System (UTMS) is a set of procedures used by transportation planners to predict the volume of traffic that will flow through a network, and how the traffic is routed. This paper will focus on the final component of UTMS, traffic assignment, which assigns the traffic flows to actual routes in the network.
In this paper, two composite models which model both User Equilibrium and System Optimal assignments are presented. The composite models are solved using the GAMS (General Algebraic Modeling System) software, a powerful mathematical programming tool. The first model was based on Beckman's Formulation, (Beckman, …