2023 Vol.1 No.1

Enhancing the Sustainable Transportation Facilities Infrastructure Need with the Trip Generation Modeling

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The transportation system is considered as one of the most important sustainable infrastructures in a country. Enhancing its need for development to cover the requirements of the inhabitants in a city is vital and the starting point for that is the consideration of the total number of trips generated to cover the commercial, educational, work and entertainment needs. In the present work, the trip ... more

Modelling Airline Operations at Major Commercial Airports for Strategic Decision Support

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The authors discuss an integrated modelling approach for improving flight operations at major commercial airports. Statistical models, built with microdata from hundreds of thousands of flights, are embedded in a process-oriented discrete-event simulation model with two-dimensional geo-spatial characteristics and logical structures based on the concept of staged queues. With results from three app... more

Case Study Evaluation of a New Approach to Price Metropolitan Highways for Congestion Relief, Sustainability and Equity

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This paper addresses the practically important challenge of devising efficient and politically feasible congestion pricing policies in the context of metropolitan highways. Congestion on metropolitan highways continues to grow while governments struggle to fund alternative modes of travel. The purpose of this paper is to explore the viability of a new approach to address highway congestion while a... more