Reliability of Transport Networks: No. 4 (Research Studies in Traffic Engineering S.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863802605 ISBN 13: 9780863802607

Publisher: Research Studies Press, 2001

Synopsis

The reliability of transportation networks has become an increasingly important issue as sustained economic growth and improvements to the quality of life around the world lead to increases in the value of time. Consequently, schedules and routes need to be able to accommodate the unexpected, like accidents, disasters or traffic flow fluctuations, with as little loss in operational efficiency as possible. Sources of unreliability include variation of demand and supply. It is widely expected that network reliability analysis will play a more important role in the planning, design and management of transportation facilities and networks in the future. This book is an outcome of the First International Symposium on Transport Network Reliability (INSTR), held at Kyoto in 2001, and consists of 24 selected papers. It covers various aspects of transport network reliability, such as definitions and methodological developments for reliability indices, behavioural analysis under uncertainty, evaluation methods for the disaster resistance of transport networks, and simulation/observation of travel time reliability.

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Synopsis

Recent high-profile disasters, like the Ladbrook Grove rail accidents in London, have highlighted the susceptibility of transport networks to severe dislocation from time to time. This is more than just an inconvenience, as the emergency services depend on the residual transport network to ferry in help and ferry out the wounded. Spurred on by the catastophic effects on the transport network of the Kobe earthquake, 17 January 1995, Yasunori Iida of Kyoto University, Japan, organized a small group of international experts to work on the topic of network reliability. The objective of the work is to provide tools necessary for designing more reliable transport networks. As part of the work, an international seminar was convened in July 1999. This book contains the edited contributions to the seminar. The issue addressed in the book is not the reliability of individual network components, like bridges or tunnels, which is of course an interesting topic in its own right, but rather the reliability of the large conurbation's are constantly subjected to disruptions due to accidents, road or rail works, adverse weather, building works, demonstrations, terrorist incidents etc.

The book deals with crucial issues relating to the measurement of reliability, traveller decision-making udner uncertainty, the provision of information to travellers, and the design of transport networks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Research Studies Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863802605
• ISBN 13: 9780863802607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bell M. G. H., Cassir Chris