• Emerging issues in urban freight transportation systems-introduction and overview of the book
• Part A. Land-use and urban production
• Chapter 1. Logistics locations patterns-distance-based methods for relative industrial concentration measurement applied to the region of Berlin-Brandenburg
• Chapter 2. Developing a pricing model for promoting coordinated resource demand in cooperative warehouses
• Chapter 3. Urban factories-interdisciplinary perspectives on resource efficiency
• Part B. Logistics concepts and urban freight transportation
• Chapter 4. Improving cost efficiency and environmental impact through the integration of light freight and passenger railway transport and last-mile distribution analysis
• Chapter 5. Commercial traffic 2.0-analysis and recommendations of delivery strategies for the package delivery industry in urban areas
• Chapter 6. The impact of data accuracy for efficient and feasible routing plans
• Chapter 7. Last-mile transport of fragmented deliveries: delivery preferences of nanostoreowners
• Chapter 8. The development and status quo of freight transport in China
• Chapter 9. Transshipment hub automation in China's courier/express/parcel sector
• Part C. Application of new technologies and deployment of electric vehicles
• Chapter 10. Scenario-based development of intelligent transportation systems for road freight transport in Germany
• Chapter 11. Assessing the potential of truck platooning in short distances: the case study of Portugal
• Chapter 12. E-vehicles for urban logistics-why is it not happening yet?-Requirements of an innovative and sustainable urban logistics concept
• Chapter 13. Mobility behavior of companies in urban areas: a triangulation approach to explore the potential for battery electric vehicle
• Chapter 14. Enhancing the potential for battery electric vehicle by identifying behaviorally homogenous groups in commercial traffic
• Urban freight transportation systems: current trends and prospects for the future

• List of Figures xi List of Tables xxv Preface xxvii
• Section 1 1
• 1 Brands of Airlines 3 1.1 Schedule Availability 3 1.1.1 Charter Airlines 3 1.1.2 Scheduled Airlines 4 1.2 Size and Domain of Service 4 1.2.1 Major Airlines 4 1.2.2 National Airlines 4 1.2.3 Regional Airlines 5 1.3 Business Model 5 1.3.1 Legacy Airlines (or Mainline) 5 1.3.2 Low-cost Airlines 6 1.3.3 Ultralow-cost Airlines 6 1.4 Ownership 7 1.4.1 Public or State Ownership 7 1.4.2 Private Ownership 7 1.5 Network Structure 8 1.5.1 Hub and Spoke 8 1.5.2 Point-to-Point 8 1.5.3 Hybrid 8 1.6 Transport Service Type 8 1.6.1 Cargo Airlines 8 1.6.2 Passenger and Cargo Airlines 9 1.7 Network Coverage 9 1.7.1 Domestic 9 1.7.2 International 9
• 2 Airline Network Structure 11 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Time Bank 14 2.3 Advantages of the Hub-and-spoke Network 23 2.3.1 Better Network Coverage 23 2.3.2 Mixed Portfolio of Passenger Demand 24 2.3.3 Dominance at the Hub 26 2.3.4 Economy of Scale Operations at the Hub 27 2.4 Limitations of the Hub-and-spoke Network 27 2.4.1 Congestion at the Hub 27 2.4.2 Schedule Vulnerability to Disruption at the Hub 28 2.4.3 Extended Ground Time for Resources 28
• 3 Airline Schedule Planning Decisions 31 3.1 Definitions 31 3.1.1 Demand Forecasting and Competition Analysis 31 3.1.2 Served Markets 32 3.1.3 Flight Frequency 32 3.1.4 Flight Departure/Arrival Time 32 3.1.5 Fleet Assignment 33 3.1.6 Aircraft Schedule 34 3.1.7 Crew Schedule 35 3.1.8 Gate Assignment 35 3.1.9 Other Resources 36 3.2 Relationships Among Scheduling Decisions 36 3.2.1 Flight Frequency and Fleet Assignment 37 3.2.2 Departure Time and City-pairs 38 3.2.3 Departure Time and Demand 38 3.2.4 Fleet Assignment and Flight Arrival Time 39 3.2.5 Fleet Assignment and Flight Departure Time 40 3.2.6 Flight Departure Time, Arrival Time, and Block Time 40 3.2.7 Flight Departure Time and Aircraft Rotation 42 3.2.8 Flight Schedule and Fleet Assignment Balance 42 3.2.9 Maintenance Rotations and Fleet Assignment 42 3.2.10 Seat Capacity/Frequency and Demand 44 3.2.11 Feet Assignment and Flight Demand 46 3.2.12 Frequency and Departure Time 46 3.2.13 Departure/Arrival Time and Gate Availability 48 3.2.14 Departure Time and Crew Schedule 49
• 4 Measures of Performance 51 4.1 Operating Cost 51 4.2 Revenue or Income 52 4.3 Net Income (Net Profit) and Operating Profit 53 4.4 Flights 53 4.5 Available Seat Miles 55 4.6 Cost per Available Seat Miles (CASM) 56 4.7 CASM- EX or CASM-EX Fuel 57 4.8 Passengers 58 4.9 Revenue Passenger Miles (RPM) 60 4.10 Total Revenue per Available Seat Mile (TRASM or Simply RASM) 61 4.11 Passenger Revenue per Available Seat Mile (PRASM) 61 4.12 Passenger Yield 62 4.13 Average Load Factor (LF) 62 4.14 Block Hours 66 4.15 Aircraft Utilization 66 4.16 Stage Length 66 4.17 On-time Performance Measures 67 4.18 Aircraft Life Cycle 67 4.19 Aircraft Number and Diversification 68
• 5 Freedoms of Air Service 75
• 6 Slot Availability 81 6.1 Level 1 Airports 82 6.2 Level 2 Airports 82 6.3 Level 3 Airports 84
• Section 2 91
• 7 Feasibility of a New Route 93 7.1 Business Plan 94 7.1.1 Proposed Property 94 7.1.2 Identifying Demand Feeders 94 7.1.3 Identifying the Size of the Demand Feeders 95 7.1.4 Analyzing Competition 96 7.1.5 Estimating Market Share 96 7.1.6 Estimating Total Demand and Unconstrained Market Share 101 7.2 Application of Feasibility Study on a New Airline Route 102 7.2.1 The Proposed Route 103 7.2.2 Identifying Demand Feeders 103 7.2.3 Identifying the Size of the Demand Feeding Markets 104 7.2.4 Analyzing Competition 105 7.2.5 Estimating Market Share 106 7.2.6 Estimating Total Flight Demand (Unconstrained Demand) 110
• 8 Market Share Models 113 8.1 What Is a Model? 113 8.2 Model and Historical Data 114 8.3 Model Development Example 115 8.4 Categorical Dependent Variable 119 8.5 Introduction to Discrete Choice Models 120 8.6 Itinerary Choice Models 123 8.7 Applying Itinerary Choice Models: An Example 131
• 9 Profitability Forecasting Models 139 9.1 Introduction 139 9.2 Model Input 140 9.3 Itinerary Builder Module 143 9.4 How the Model Works? 143 9.5 Load Factor, Market Share, and Market Concentration 144
• 10 Partnership Agreements 149 10.1 Introduction 149 10.2 Regional Airlines 150 10.3 Code-share Agreements 151 10.4 Airline Alliances 154 10.5 Distribution Channels and Point of Sale 154 10.6 Loyalty Programs 156 10.7 Corporate Travel 156
• Section 3 159
• 11 Basic Fleet Assignment Model (FAM) 161 11.1 Introduction 161 11.2 Graphical Representation: Time-staggered Diagram 164 11.3 Problem Input 167 11.4 Problem Definition and Formulation 170 11.5 The Constraints of the Basic Fleet Assignment Problem 172 11.5.1 The Coverage Constraints 172 11.5.2 Resources Constraints 173 11.5.3 The Through-flights Constraints 173 11.5.4 The Balance Constraints 174
• 12 A Walk-through Example of the Basic Fleet Assignment Model 175 12.1 Problem Definition 175 12.2 The Objective Function 178 12.3 The Constraints 178 12.4 Interconnection Nodes 183
• 13 Application of the Basic Fleet Assignment Model 193 13.1 Introduction 193 13.2 Problem Input 193 13.3 Setting the Problem in Excel Solver 203 13.4 Solution Interpretation 208 13.5 Resources Constraints 210 13.6 Additional Constraints 213
• Section 4 215
• 14 The Schedule Adjustment Problem 217 14.1 Introduction 217 14.2 Schedule Adjustment Decisions 218 14.3 Problem Formulation 219
• 15 Examples on the Schedule Adjustment Problem 221 15.1 Flight Deletion 221 15.2 Flight Addition 228 15.3 Flight Departure Time 235
• Section 5 243
• 16 Itinerary-based Fleet Assignment Model (IFAM) 245 16.1 Introduction 245 16.2 Spill Cost Estimates and Network Effect 246 16.3 Demand Recapture 248 16.4 The Flight-Itinerary Interaction 251 16.5 The Itinerary-based Fleet Assignment Problem 254
• 17 Example on IFAM 255 17.1 Problem Definition 255 17.2 The Constraints of the IFAM Example 258 17.3 The Objective Function 259 17.4 Problem Solution 270
• 18 Comparing FAM and IFAM 279 18.1 Problem Definition 279 18.2 Problem Solution 285
• Section 6 289
• 19 Integrated Schedule Design with the Itinerary-based Fleet Assignment Model (ISD-IFAM) 291 19.1 Introduction 291 19.2 Example of Demand and Supply Interactions 292 19.3 Aspects of Demand-Supply Interactions: Demand Correction Factors 293 19.4 The Schedule Design and Adjustment Problem 298 19.4.1 The Objective Function of ISD-IFAM 298 19.4.2 The Constraints of the ISD-IFAM 298
• 20 Example on ISD-IFAM 301 20.1 Problem Definition 301 20.2 The Constraints of the Problem 304 20.3 The Objective Function 305 20.4 Problem Solving 324 20.5 Solution Interpretation 327 20.6 Changing the Operations Cost 331
• Section 7 345
• 21 Schedule Robustness 347 21.1 Introduction 347 21.2 Less-prone-to-disruptions Schedules: The Concept of Adding Slack Times 348 21.2.1 Slack in Flight Block Time 348 21.2.2 Slack Time of a Connecting Resource 349 21.2.3 Slack Time of an Inbound Flight 351 21.3 Recoverable Flight Schedules 353 21.3.1 Background 353 21.3.2 Station Purity 355 21.3.3 Short Cancellation Cycles 356 21.3.4 Maximizing Swapping Possibility 357 21.3.5 Allocating Standby and Reserve Crew 358 References 359 Index 369.
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A concise resource to the best practices and problem-solving ideas for understanding the airline network planning and scheduling process Airline Network Planning and Scheduling offers a comprehensive resource that is filled with the industry's best practices that can help to inform decision-modeling and the problem-solving process. Written by two industry experts, the book is designed to be an accessible guide that contains information for addressing complex challenges, problems, and approaches that arise on the job. The chapters begin by addressing the complex topics at a broad, conceptual level before moving on to more detailed modeling in later chapters. This approach follows the standard airline planning process and reflects the duties of the day-to-day job of network/schedule planners. To help gain a practical understanding of the information presented, each chapter includes exercises and data based on real-world case studies. In addition, throughout the book there are graphs and illustrations as well as, information on the most recent advances in airline network and planning research. This important resource: - Takes a practical approach when detailing airline network planning and scheduling practices as opposed to a theoretical perspective - Puts the focus on the complexity and main challenges as well as current practices and approaches to problem-solving and decision-making - Presents the information in a logical sequence that begins with broad, conceptual topics and gradually delves into more advanced topics that address modeling - Contains international standard airline planning processes, the day-to-day responsibilities of the job, and outlines the steps taken when building an airline network and schedule - Includes numerous case studies, exercises, graphs, and illustrations throughout Written for professionals and academics, Airline Network Planning and Scheduling offers a resource for understanding best practices and models as well as the challenges involved with network planning and scheduling.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Governance
• 3. Planning Principles
• 4. The Changing Role of Public Transport
• 5. Transformational Potential of Information Technology
• 6. Changing Approaches to Transport Finance
• 7. Managing Roadways for Moving People and Goods
• 8. Opportunities and Challenges of Motorized Two-Wheelers
• 9. Beyond Congestion
• 10. Social Media as an Instrument of Change
• 11. Transport impact of the Changing Role of Women
• 12. Lessons for the Future.
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Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility: Planning, Finance and Implementation explains the types of new urban mobility planning paradigms that are emerging throughout the world, along with their potential to transform the transportation landscape. As half of the world's 7 billion people now live in cities, thus causing severe road congestion, increased air pollution, energy insecurity and sustainability problems in cities and the planet itself, this book presents new paradigms that are emerging to address these problems, along with other topics of note, including economic efficiency, health, the well-being of cities and their residents, urban mobility transformations, and the role of social media. In addition, the book looks at Integrated Corridor Management and how it improves the people-moving performance of multi-modal transport systems in high demand urban corridors and how countries balance the mobility benefits of motorcycles with the environmental and safety threats they pose.
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• Part 1: The State of the Air Transportation Industry
• 1. Industry Profitability
• 2. The Structure of Airport Finances
• 3. Operating Efficiencies
• Part 2: The Nature of Airports
• 4. Airports within the Air Transportation System
• 5. The Changing Environment of the Airport Business
• 6. The Metamorphosis of Airports
• 7. Social, Environmental, and Political Impact of Airports
• Part 3: Airport Economics
• 8. Regional Location Differences
• 9. Operational Size
• 10. Capital Structure, Costs and Productivity
• 11. Investment Spending
• 12. Ownership Models
• 13. The Regulatory Environment
• Part 4: Airport Financial Management
• 14. The Two-Sided Nature of the Airport Business
• 15. Economies of Scale and the Investment Cycle
• 16. Business Diversification Implications
• Part 5: Measuring and Managing Financial Performance
• 17. Major Issues in Financial Management and Control
• 18. Tools for Performance Analysis and Control
• 19. Value-Based Management
• 20. Financing Growth.
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Foundations of Airport Economics and Finance analyzes the impact key economic indicators play on an airport's financial performance. As rapidly changing dynamics, including liberalization, commercialization and globalization are changing the nature of airports worldwide, this book presents the significant challenges facing current and future airports. Airports are evolving from quasi-monopolies to commercial companies operating in a global environment, with ever-increasing passenger and cargo volumes and escalating security costs that put a greater strain on airport systems. This book highlights the critical changes that airports are experiencing, providing a basic understanding of both the economic and financial aspects of the air transport industry.
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• 1. Forces Shaping the Freight Transport Sector
• 2. Understanding the Freight Transport Sector
• 3. Freight Transport Chains
• 4. Barriers and Challenges to Freight Transport Chains
• 5. Building Successful Freight Transport Chains
• 6. Ways Forward.
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Intermodal Freight Transportation conceptualizes intermodal transport as a set of physical, logical, financial and contractual flows, examining the barriers that impact intermodal freight services and the resulting performance variables. The book covers transport modes, agents, supply and demand patterns, key drivers, trends influencing the freight transportation sector, the evolution of supply and logistics chains, and the impacts of technological advancements, such as autonomous vehicles and e-commerce. In addition, the book covers transport agents, such as shippers, freight forwarders, integrators, and customs, as well as the demand for freight transport services and the key properties of goods. Readers will find a variety of new tools for analyzing and building effective transport chains that addresses component technology, information, responsibility, and financing dimension, along with sections on key organizational, regulatory, infrastructure and technological barriers. The book concludes with a look into the future of the freight transport sector.
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• Part 1 Introduction
• 1: One Job, Many Lives
• 2: Assembling a Labor Market
• Part 2 Mediators Unpacked
• 3: Firms: Seeing Like a Call Center
• 4: The State: Making a Middle Path
• 5: Labor: Seeking the Philippine Dream
• Part 3 Three Archetypes
• 6: Responsible Women
• 7: Restless Gays
• 8: Rooted Men
• Part 4 Conclusion
• 9: Gone Baby Gone
• 10: The Relativity of Work
• Appendix
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The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's "voice capital, " and industry revenues are now the second largest contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J. Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market for voice over the past two decades. Drawing upon case studies of sixty Filipino call center workers and two years of fieldwork in Manila, he illustrates how offshore call center jobs represent a middle path for educated Filipinos, who are faced with the dismaying choice to migrate abroad in search of prosperity versus stay at home as an impoverished professional. A rich ethnographic study, this book challenges existing stereotypes regarding offshore service jobs and sheds light upon the reasons that the Philippines has become the world's favored location for "voice." It looks beyond call centers and beyond India to advance debates concerning global capitalism, the future of work, and the lives of those who labor in offshored jobs.
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• 1. Introduction: Ascent of LCCs Around the World
• 2. Getting Airborne: What's Fuelling the LCC Phenomenon
• 3. Networks: The Geography of LCCs in Low- and Middle-Income Economies
• 4. Impacts of an Aeromobile World
• 5. Business Models
• 6. Futures.
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Low-Cost Airline Carriers in Emerging Countries traces the development of low-cost carriers (LCCs) in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, examining airlines that have become significant players in their home markets but little known at a global scale. The book maps the geography of the LCC phenomenon, explaining the starkly varying success of budget airlines, and assessing their current social, economic and environmental impacts. The book concludes with insights into the future potential of the LCC phenomenon along with its global ramifications. Beginning with Southwest Airlines in the 1970s, low-cost carriers (LCCs) have democratized air travel around the world, fostering huge increases in airline traffic and transforming the airline industry. At the same time however, the ascent of these budget airlines has exacerbated aviation-related problems such as aircraft noise, airport congestion, greenhouse gas emissions and more. LCCs have been extensively studied in the US and Europe but not in emerging regions of the globe. Yet the impact of such airlines is greatest in low- and middle-income economies where only a small fraction of the population has ever flown, and where competition from alternative modes (road, rail) is weak.
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• volume
• 1. [without special title]
• volume
• 2. Attachments A & B

Sustainable Urban Mobility Pathways examines how sustainable urban mobility solutions contribute to achieving worldwide sustainable development and global climate change targets, while also identifying barriers to implementation and strategies to overcome them. Building on city-to-city cooperation experiences in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, the book examines key challenges in the context of the Paris Agreement, UN Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, including policies needed to achieve a sustainable, low-carbon pathway for transport and how an integrated policy strategy is designed to provide a basis for political coalitions. The book explores which institutional framework creates sufficient political stability and continuity to foster the take-up of and long-term support for sustainable transport strategies. The linkages of climate change and wider sustainable development objectives are covered, including success stories, best practices, and quantitative analysis for key emerging economies in public transport, walking, cycling, freight and logistics, vehicle technology and fuels, urban planning and integration, and national framework policies.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Changes in Mobility Behavior
• 3. New Mobility Services
• 4. Using Cell Phone Data to Understand Travel Behavior and Transportation Systems
• 5. Public Policy Implications
• 6. Developing Countries Impacts and Challenges
• 7. Conclusion.
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Urban Mobility and the Smartphone: Transportation, Travel Behavior and Public Policy provides a global synthesis of the transformation of urban mobility by the smartphone, clarifying the definitions of new concepts and objects in mobility studies, accounting for the changes in transportation and travel behavior triggered by the spread of the smartphone, and discussing the implications of these changes for policy-making and research. Urban mobility is approached here as a system of actors: the perspectives of individual behavior (including lifestyles), the supply of mobility services (including actors, business models), and public policy-making are considered. The book is based on an extensive review of the academic literature as well as systematic observation of the development of smartphone-based mobility services around the world. In addition, case studies provide practical illustrations of the ongoing transformation of mobility services influenced by the dissemination of smartphones. The book not only consolidates existing research, but also picks up on weak signals that help researchers and practitioners anticipate future changes in urban mobility systems. Key Features * Synthesizes existing research into one reference, providing researchers and policy-makers with a clear and complete understanding of the changes triggered by the spread of the smartphone. * Analyzes numerous case studies throughout developed and developing countries providing practical illustrations of the influence of the smartphone on travel behavior, transportation systems, and policy-making. * Provides insights for researchers and practitioners looking to engage with the "smart cities" and "smart mobility" discourse.
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• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Background
• Key takeaways from review of major policies
• Light-duty vehicles
• Heavy-duty vehicles
• Low carbon fuels
• Vehicle miles traveled
• Conclusion.

• Part 1: Introduction
• Chapter 1: Autonomous decentralized systems and its paradigm shift
• Part 2: ADS applications in intelligent infrastructure
• Chapter 2: Autonomous decentralized safety critical system
• Chapter 3: Train control system
• Chapter 4: ATOS (autonomous decentralized transport operation control system)
• Chapter 5: ADS fault tolerant property in air-traffic control systems
• Chapter 6: An agile manufacturing model based on autonomous agents
• Part 3: Developing ADS technologies and applications leading to innovation in lifestyle
• Chapter 7: Railway ticketing services (Suica)
• Chapter 8: Robot as a Service and its visual programming environment
• Chapter 9: "JR EAST App" for customers' smartphones based on ICT
• Chapter 10: Autonomous decentralised systems and society
• Chapter 11: Internet of Simulation: building smart autonomous decentralised systems
• Part 4: Concept-oriented business and services (business model) new business model inspired by ADS
• Chapter 12: Autonomous decentralized service-oriented architecture
• Chapter 13: The role of blockchain in autonomous distributed business services
• Chapter 14: Change and expansion of business structure using ADS concept in railway market
• Chapter 15: Sustainable business through alliance based concept model of management & technology of railway infrastructure
• Chapter 16: Smart cities, IOT, Industrie 4.0/Industrial Internet, cyber-physical systems: concepts, burdens and business models.
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In a large and complex system, such as a railway network, it is often not an option to stop operation at any time. Even if a part of the system fails, is being repaired or modified, the system has to keep functioning. This leads to many requirements for on-line expansion, on-line maintenance, and fault-tolerance. Dynamic changes demand next-generation control, information and service systems to be based on adaptive, reliable and reusable technologies and applications. Such systems are expected to have the characteristics of living systems composed of largely autonomous and decentralized components. Hence they are called Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ADS). This book describes the concept, architecture and technologies of ADS and their applications in intelligent control, information and service systems, with a focus on transport. ADS is explained first using the example of the Japanese railway transport system; applications in other fields and countries follow. The goal is to describe the ADS concept and the technologies, applications and businesses on the basis of a consistent concept for achieving intelligent systems such as for manufacturing, transportation service, air traffic, robotic and distributed services.
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• Table of Content:
• Chapter 1 Fractional Model of Microscopic Pedestrians Based on Fractional Decision Making Process 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Fractional Decision Making Process 1.3 Fractional Microscopic Model 1.4 Simulation Results 1.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 2 Fractional Model of Macroscopic Crowds Based on Fractional Conservation Law 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Fractional Conservation law of Mass/Momentum 2.3 Fractional Macroscopic Model 2.4 Simulation Results 2.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Fractional Model for Micro-Macro Crowds with Presence of Individual of Disabilities 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Fractional Potential Field and IwDs 3.3 Fractional Mean Field Theory 3.4 Fractional Micro-Macro Model 3.5 Simulation Results 3.6 Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Cooperative Control of Microscopic Pedestrians with Long Range Interactions 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Relationship between Long Range Interactions and Fractional Calculus 4.3 Relationship between Long Range Interactions and Macroscopic Movement 4.4 Cooperative Control of Microscopic Pedestrians with Long Range Interactions 4.5 Simulation Results 4.6 Conclusion
• Chapter 5 Boundary Evacuation Control of Macroscopic Crowds of Pedestrians 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Fractional Reaction-advection-diffusion Model 5.3 Boundary Conditions for Desired Evacuation 5.4 Evacuating Controllers for Boundary Robots 5.5 Wave-absorbing Re-design of Boundary Evacuating Controllers 5.6 Simulation Results 5.7 Conclusion
• Chapter 6 Intelligent Evacuation Control of Large Crowds of Pedestrians Using FODIFF-MAS 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Platform of DIFF-MAS and FODIFF-MAS 6.3 Simulation Results of Large Crowds on Micro, Macro and Mesco Scale 6.4 Simulation Results of Large Crowds with Long Range Interactions 6.5 Intelligent Evacuation Control of Large Crowds 6.6 Conclusion.
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This book illustrates the application of fractional calculus in crowd dynamics via modeling and control groups of pedestrians. Decision-making processes, conservation laws of mass/momentum, and micro-macro models are employed to describe system dynamics while cooperative movements in micro scale, and fractional diffusion in macro scale are studied to control the group of pedestrians. Obtained work is included in the Intelligent Evacuation Systems that is used for modeling and to control crowds of pedestrians. With practical issues considered, this book is of interests to mathematicians, physicists, and engineers.
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This collection contains 29 peer-reviewed papers on rail, public transit, and freight operations presented at the International Conference on Transportation and Development 2018, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 15-18, 2018. Topics include: ravel time prediction; modeling traffic behavior patterns; public transit design and passenger behavior; and maintenance of public transit systems.