Month: October 2013
Assessing the Impacts of Development in the Transportation Network
October 1, 2013Siva Srinivasan, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering The impact of a development (for example, a shopping center) on the transportation system is typically captured as the number of additional trips added to the network. While the trip rate is appropriate to capture the effect of a development locally (say, at a nearby intersection), it […]
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October 1, 2013Lihui Zhang, Yafeng Yin and Scott WashburnDepartment of Civil and Coastal EngineeringUniversity of Florida Traffic congestion is one of the most severe problems that threatens the economic prosperity and quality of life in many societies. According to a report by the Federal Highway Administration, traffic congestion in the U.S. costs approximately $200 billion a year […]
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October 1, 2013By: Panos Pardalos, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor (ISE), and Ashwin Arulselvan, doctoral student (ISE) Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering This article is based on ongoing research under CMS Project # 2008-005 Purpose of study: Minimize the total evacuation time for a given highway network Approach: Make traffic flow more efficiently by identifying lanes to be […]
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