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The ‘backhaul problem’ is characterized by an imbalance in transport flows between locations. This problem is usually studied in a perfectly competitive framework, which essentially predicts that when the imbalance is sufficiently large, the freight price of transport from low demand regions...
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This paper proposes an analytical framework for scheduling decisions of road travelers that takes into account probability weighting using rank dependent utility theory. The fundamental difference with the standard scheduling model based on expected utility is that the probabilities of arrivals...
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We formulate a horizontal differentiation model with price-sensitive demand and asymmetric transport costs, in the context of transport scheduling. Two competitors choose fares and departure times in a fixed time interval. Consumers are distributed uniformly along the interval; their location...
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In this article, we simulate the concentration process within the German dairy sector employing a sector?wide optimization model. As a result, we get cost minimizing structures of the dairy sector for various time horizons depending on varying levels of transportation costs. We show that the...
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road pricing and ATIS requires travel demand models that are able to consider travelers with distinct attributes (value of … potential savings) in a differentiated market (by tolls and the level of service). Traditional trip-based models have difficulty …, which has significant influence on decision-making and travel behavior, has not been fully addressed in existing models. To …
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The role of contacts on travel behavior has been getting increasing attention. This paper reports on data collected on individual’s social meetings and the choice of in-home/out-of-home meeting locations as well as the distance traveled and duration of out-home-meetings and its relationship to...
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This paper empirically explores the relationship between (i) job finding and commuting outcomes and (ii) the relationship between job search and the commute and location outcomes of relocation decisions after finding employment. The relationship between commute outcomes when finding a new job...
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region, researchers have produced a rich variety of models dealing with interrelated processes of urban change. The most … popular types of models have been those dealing with the relationship between transportation network growth and changes in … models that have been applied to real-world settings. It then identifies new directions for future research in urban modeling …
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This research explores the effectiveness of using simulation as a tool for enhancing classroom learning in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities. The authors developed a modern transportation planning software package, Agent-based Demand and Assignment...
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We first delineate a general model that accounts for the common features of sightseeing trips to city attractions and to locations such as lakes and parks. Next, we use the theory of discrete-time Markov chains (DTMCs) to formalize this general model and then we compute the one-step transition...
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