Knowledge of motorists' origin-destination (OD) travel information is necessary for a wide range of transportation planning activities. The high cost of manpower and other expenses associated with conventional survey techniques for OD estimation have motivated the development of models that can...

The location of shelters in a region threatened by a hurricane can greatly influence the highway network clearance time, i.e. the time needed by evacuees to escape from origin points to safe areas. The studies conducted to date for developing hurricane plans have not implicitly considered the...

This paper develops an algorithm for optimally locating Automatic Vehicle Identification tag readers by maximizing the benefit that would accrue from measuring travel times on a transportation network. The problem is formulated as a quadratic 0-1 optimization problem where the objective function...