Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every relevant aspect of an urban 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...

Transport infrastructure evolves over time in a complex process as part of a dynamic and open system including travel demand, land use, as well as economic and political initiatives. As transport infrastructure changes, each traveler may adopt a new schedule, frequency, destination, mode, and/or...

This research describes the growth of the Minneapolis Skyway network and aims to determine if the growth of the system has followed a predictable path.We hypothesize that the system expanded to the places in which it was valued the most. The point accessibility of each block lying within and...

This study evaluates the effects of I-35W bridge collapse on road-users in the Twin-Cities metropolitan area. We adopted the Twin-Cities (Metropolitan Minneapolis and St. Paul) Seven-County travel demand model developed in previous research, recalibrated it against July 2007 loop detector...

Travel demand can be elegantly represented using an Origin-Destination (OD) matrix. The link counts observed on the network are produced by the underlying travel demand. One could use these counts to reconstruct the OD matrix. An offline approach to estimate a static OD matrix over the peak...

Spring Weight Restrictions (SWR) forbid heavy trucks to run on some low-level roads during the spring thaw period. There has been long dispute between trucking industry and road agencies on the effectiveness of this policy. Previous studies showed inconsistent results on this issue. This paper...

Spring Weight Restrictions (SWR) forbid heavy trucks to run on some low-level roads during the spring thaw period. There has been long dispute between trucking industry and road agencies on the effectiveness of this policy. Previous studies showed inconsistent results on this issue. This paper...

As vehicles become more fuel-efficient and overall levels of travel stagnate in response to increases in fuel prices, conventional sources of revenue for transportation finance such as taxes on motor fuels have been put under increasing pressure. One potential replacement as a source of revenue...

In this paper we introduce an activity-based modeling approach for evaluating the traveler costs of transport network disruptions. The model handles several important aspects of such events: increases in travel time may be very long in relation to the normal day-to-day fluctuations; the impact...

The objective of this research is to identify the role of network architecture in influencing individual travel behavior using travel survey data from two urban areas in Florida: Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Various measures of network structure, compiled from existing sources, are used to...