The following topics were presented at the Conference: Location transportation problems (Location of schools--perspectives in urban transportation planning, A location-allocation study in a road transport corporation, A survey of methods for solving combined location-routing problems, On solving multi-source location problem on a sphere, A generalized reduced gradient based approach to round-trip location problem); Routing and Scheduling (Urban bus route rationalization, Simulation model for optical frequency of buses on a route, City bus transit network planning, A school busing system, Optimization of vehicle schedules for a road transport corporation, Pricing of bottlenecks at optimal time in a transportation problem); Transport systems modelling (On controlling total flow in transportation problems, The constrained maximum flow problem, Dynamic variants of the Lowry's model of metropolis - systems formulation and empirical implementation, Aggregate production and distribution planning in multi plant operating organization, Attractiveness of bus system - an application of information integration theory, Optimization of bus route network for a fixed spatial distribution, A strategy for combined selection of travel route and departure times from home during the peak period - a theoretical model); Traffic flow and control (The traffic flow process--an evaluation of queuing and lane-changing patterns based on a Markov model, Simulation of mixed vehicular traffic on single lane highway, and Propagation of density perturbations in traffic flow).
Papers Presented at the International Conference on Transportation Held at New Delhi, India on November 26-28, 1980. Volume I
1980
385 pages
Report
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English
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