Quantitative Methods in Transportation

Quantitative Methods in Transportation is a book that provides useful, simple, and advanced quantitative techniques for solving real-life transportation engineering problems, including travel and freight demand prediction, network planning, and traffic control strategies. It covers a range of methods, from linear programming to computer techniques, and is supported with problems and a solutions manual.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 462 pages
\n Publication date: 24 August 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Quantitative Methods in Transportation is a comprehensive guide that offers invaluable quantitative techniques for solving real-life transportation engineering problems. Its primary objective is to assist transportation engineers and analysts in predicting travel and freight demand, planning new transportation networks, and developing safer, more cost-effective, and greener traffic control strategies. Given the vastness of transportation networks, many transportation challenges arise as combinatorial problems, further complicated by the stochastic and independent decision-making of trip planners. This book provides a diverse range of methods to address these challenges, encompassing linear programming, multi-attribute decision making, data envelopment analysis, probability theory, simulation, and computer techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, ant colony optimization, and bee colony optimization.

To support the learning process, the book is accompanied by a comprehensive set of problems and a solutions manual, designed to aid course instructors. By utilizing these quantitative methods, transportation professionals can make informed decisions that optimize transportation systems, enhance efficiency, and promote sustainability in the ever-evolving field of transportation engineering.

\n Weight: 702g\n
Dimension: 157 x 235 x 33 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367250539\n \n