Background: Due to the remarkable growth in online retail sales in New Zealand, a large number of parcels are needed to be delivered to consumers' doorsteps. Home deliveries in major New Zealand cities (e.g., Christchurch) typically occur between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays, when many home...

This paper describes sensitivity analysis for a degradable transportation system, based on an integrated equilibrium model with elastic travel demand, to identify critical components and assist efforts to improve system reliability. A reliability model, involving practical measures of...

This paper discusses the need for analysis of transportation systems whose components are subject to degradation, and describes an integrated equilibrium model for a large scale, multi-mode degradable transportation system. The existence, uniqueness and stability of the solutions are discussed....