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Book Time Constrained Shortest Paths in Stochastic and Dynamic Transportation Networks

Download or read book Time Constrained Shortest Paths in Stochastic and Dynamic Transportation Networks written by Deepak Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis develops methodologies for solving constrained shortest path problems in dynamic and random conditions. Due to the randomness of the network, the decisions need to account for uncertainty of the future real-time network state. Currently the randomness of the arc attributes is not taken into consideration. In this thesis, the intent is to develop methodologies for finding best paths when the arc attributes are uncertain, and change with time. Modified label correcting algorithms are developed for several new variations of the constrained stochastic dynamic shortest path problem where the objective is to minimize the expected cost subject to a specified constraint on the travel time of the path. The constraint can be placed on the expected travel time of the path, or on the cumulative probability of experiencing a maximum travel time. Unlike deterministic networks, in which a single minimum cost path can be determined between an origin and a destination, several paths may each have some positive probability of having the least cost for some realization of the network when the arc times and costs are stochastic and thus, a set of Pareto-optimal paths can be generated. Multiple variations are also examined when considering the FIFO nature of travel times in the network. The correctness of the proposed algorithms is proved. Extensive numerical experiments are conducted to access the performance of these procedures. Also some of the instances are discussed where this problem has practical significance

Book Solution Algorithms for Resource and Route Constrained Shortest Path Problems in Time dependent Transportation Networks

Download or read book Solution Algorithms for Resource and Route Constrained Shortest Path Problems in Time dependent Transportation Networks written by Erkut Yucaoğlu and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shortest Path Problems in a Stochastic and Dynamic Environment

Download or read book Shortest Path Problems in a Stochastic and Dynamic Environment written by Jae I. Cho and published by . This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this research, we consider stochastic and dynamic transportation network problems. Particularly, we develop a variety of algorithms to solve the expected shortest path problem in addition to techniques for computing the total travel time distribution along a path in the network. First, we develop an algorithm for solving an independent expected shortest path problem. Next, we incorporate the inherent dependencies along successive links in two distinct ways to find the expected shortest path. Since the dependent expected shortest path problem cannot be solved with traditional deterministic approaches, we develop a heuristic based on the K-shortest path algorithm for this dependent stochastic network problem. Additionally, transient and asymptotic versions of the problem are considered. An algorithm to compute a parametric total travel time distribution for the shortest path is presented along with stochastically shortest path measures. The work extends the current literature on such problems by considering interactions on adjacent links.

Book Combinatorics  Algorithms  Probabilistic and Experimental Methodologies

Download or read book Combinatorics Algorithms Probabilistic and Experimental Methodologies written by Bo Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First International Symposium on Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and Experimental Methodologies was held in Hangzhou, China, in April 2007. The symposium provided an interdisciplinary forum for researchers to share their discoveries and approaches; search for ideas, methodologies, and tool boxes; find better, faster, and more accurate solutions; and develop a research agenda of common interest. This volume constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the symposium. Inside you'll find 46 full papers. They represent some of the most important thinking and advancements in the field. The papers address large data processing problems using different methodologies from major disciplines such as computer science, combinatorics, and statistics.

Book Optimization and Control of Stochastic Dynamic Transportation Systems

Download or read book Optimization and Control of Stochastic Dynamic Transportation Systems written by Steven Travis Waller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis employs traditional and new approaches to analyze properties of transportation systems under uncertainty and their effect on the various stages to transportation management; i.e., strategic, tactical, operational and real-time. Numerous pertinent problems are presented or extended to account for dynamics and uncertainty such as the network design problem, dynamic traffic assignment, centralized guidance, and the online shortest path problem. Analytical formulations are developed to describe system properties, and solution algorithms are presented to model transport systems under the stated conditions and, ultimately, to improve the performance of the transportation network.

Book Adaptive Routing Optimization in Continuous time Stochastic Dynamic Networks

Download or read book Adaptive Routing Optimization in Continuous time Stochastic Dynamic Networks written by Mostafa Kamali Ardakani and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routing in a stochastic and dynamic (time-dependent) network is a crucial transportation problem, particularly as the advanced traveler information system emerges within navigator systems. A new variant of adaptive routing, which assumes perfect online information of continuous real-time link travel time, is proposed. This variant can deal with a dynamic network, which has the most general real-time link travel times with frequent, instantaneous, and sometimes unpredictable changes. The driver's speed profile is also taken into consideration to realistically estimate travel times, which correspondingly involves the stochasticity of links in a dynamic network. An optimization methodology is developed to tackle the dynamic shortest path problem with continuous-time. A decremental approach based on network topology is consequently developed to reduce the network size. The impact of the proposed adaptive routing and the performance of the decremental approach are evaluated in static and dynamic networks under different traffic conditions. The proposed approach can be incorporated within an intelligent vehicle navigation system. In addition, A* algorithm is applied in the decremental approach to speed up the shortest paths optimization process. In order to convert link cost functions to distances to define the potential function in A* algorithm, the weighted metric multidimensional scaling technique is utilized. Moreover, Dijkstra's and the A* algorithms are compared in different networks.

Book Approximation  Randomization  and Combinatorial Optimization  Algorithms and Techniques

Download or read book Approximation Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms and Techniques written by Sanjeev Arora and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Optimization Problems, APPROX 2003 and of the 7th International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM 2003, held in Princeton, NY, USA in August 2003. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. Among the issues addressed are design and analysis of randomized and approximation algorithms, online algorithms, complexity theory, combinatorial structures, error-correcting codes, pseudorandomness, derandomization, network algorithms, random walks, Markov chains, probabilistic proof systems, computational learning, randomness in cryptography, and various applications.

Book Shortest Path Algorithms for Dynamic Transportation Networks

Download or read book Shortest Path Algorithms for Dynamic Transportation Networks written by Wedad Alhoula and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Network Reliability in Practice

Download or read book Network Reliability in Practice written by David Levinson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the reliability of transportation networks in order to illustrate both vulnerability to day-to-day and unpredictability variability and risk in travel, and demonstrates strategies for addressing those issues. The scope of the chapters includes all aspects of analysis and design to improve network reliability, specifically user perception of unreliability of public transport, public policy and reliability of travel times, the valuation and economics of reliability, network reliability modeling and estimation, travel behavior and vehicle routing under uncertainty, and risk evaluation and management for transportation networks. The book combines new methodologies and state of the art practice to model and address questions of network unreliability, making it of interest to both academics in transportation and engineering as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

Book Computational Logistics

Download or read book Computational Logistics written by Tolga Bektaş and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th InternationalConference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2017, held in Southampton,UK, in October 2017.The 38 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They are organized in topical sections entitled: vehicle routing and scheduling; maritime logistics;synchromodal transportation; and transportation, logistics and supply chain planning.

Book Reliability and Risk Assessment in Engineering

Download or read book Reliability and Risk Assessment in Engineering written by Vijay Kumar Gupta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of articles on reliability and safety engineering presented during INCRS 2018. The articles cover a variety of topics such as big data analytics and their applications in reliability assessment and condition monitoring, health monitoring, management, diagnostics and prognostics of mechanical systems, design for reliability and optimization, and machine learning for industrial applications. A special aspect of this volume is the coverage of performance, failure and reliability issues in electrical distribution systems. This book will be a useful reference for graduate students, researchers and professionals working in the area of reliability assessment, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance.

Book Proceedings of IAC MEM 2016 in Budapest

Download or read book Proceedings of IAC MEM 2016 in Budapest written by group of authors and published by Czech Institute of Academic Education z.s.. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Academic Conference on Management, Economics and Marketing in Budapest, Hungary 2016 (IAC-MEM 2016), Friday - Saturday, July 8 - 9, 2016

Book Time Varying Network Optimization

Download or read book Time Varying Network Optimization written by Dan Sha and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text describes a series of models, propositions, and algorithms developed in recent years on time-varying networks. References and discussions on relevant problems and studies that have appeared in the literature are integrated in the book. Its eight chapters consider problems including the shortest path problem, the minimum-spanning tree problem, the maximum flow problem, and many more. The time-varying traveling salesman problem and the Chinese postman problem are presented in a chapter together with the time-varying generalized problem. While these topics are examined within the framework of time-varying networks, each chapter is self-contained so that each can be read – and used – separately.

Book Schedule Based Modeling of Transportation Networks

Download or read book Schedule Based Modeling of Transportation Networks written by Nigel H. M. Wilson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications" follows the book Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling, published in this series in 2004, recognizing the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems. Conceived for the simulation of transit systems, in the last few years the schedule-based approach has been expanded and applied to operational planning of other transportation schedule services besides mass transit, e.g. freight transport. This innovative approach allows forecasting the evolution over time of the on-board loads on the services and their time-varying performance, using credible user behavioral hypotheses. It opens new frontiers in transportation modeling to support network design, timetable setting, and investigation of congestion effects, as well as the assessment of such new technologies, such as users system information (ITS technologies).

Book Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science  Transportation

Download or read book Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science Transportation written by Cynthia Barnhart and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains eleven chapters describing some of the most recent methodological operations research developments in transportation. It is structured around the main transportation modes, and each chapter is written by a group of well-recognized researchers. Because of the major impact of operations research methods in the field of air transportation over the past forty years, it is befitting to open the book with a chapter on airline operations management. This book will prove useful to researchers, students, and practitioners in transportation and will stimulate further research in this rich and fascinating area. Volume 14 examines transport and its relationship with operations and management science 11 chapters cover the most recent research developments in transportation Focuses on main transportation modes-air travel, automobile, public transit, maritime transport, and more

Book Least Expected Time Paths in Stochastic  Time varying Transportation Networks

Download or read book Least Expected Time Paths in Stochastic Time varying Transportation Networks written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors consider stochastic, time-varying transportation networks, where the arc weights (arc travel times) are random variables with probability distribution functions that vary with time. Efficient procedures are widely available for determining least time paths in deterministic networks. In stochastic but time-invariant networks, least expected time paths can be determined by setting each random arc weight to its expected value and solving an equivalent deterministic problem. This paper addresses the problem of determining least expected time paths in stochastic, time-varying networks. Two procedures are presented. The first procedure determines the a priori least expected time paths from all origins to a single destination for each departure time in the peak period. The second procedure determines lower bounds on the expected times of these a priori least expected time paths. This procedure determines an exact solution for the problem where the driver is permitted to react to revealed travel times on traveled links en route, i.e. in a time-adaptive route choice framework. Modifications to each of these procedures for determining least expected cost (where cost is not necessarily travel time) paths and lower bounds on the expected costs of these paths are given. Extensive numerical tests are conducted to illustrate the algorithms' computational performance as well as the properties of the solution.