Quantitative Methods in Transportation

Quantitative Methods in Transportation provides the most useful, simple, and advanced quantitative techniques for solving real-life transportation engineering problems. It aims to help transportation engineers and analysts to predict travel and freight demand, plan new transportation networks, and develop various traffic control strategies that are safer, more cost effective, and greener.

Transportation networks can be exceptionally large, and this makes many transportation problems combinatorial, and the challenges are compounded by the stochastic and independent nature of trip-planners decision making. Methods outlined in this book range from linear programming, multi-attribute decision making, data envelopment analysis, probability theory, and simulation to computer techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, ant colony optimization, and bee colony optimization. The book is supported with problems and has a solutions manual to aid course instructors.

List of contents

1. Mathematical programming
2. Optimal paths
3. Multi-attribute decision-making
4. Probability theory
5. Statistics
6. Simulation
7. Queueing theory
8. Heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms
Appendix

About the author

Dr Dušan Teodorović is Professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech. He is the Editor of the Routledge Handbook of Transportation.
Dr Miloš Nikolić is Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and he has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

This textbook of quantitative methods in transportation engineering comes with problems and a solutions manual for adopting course instructors. Basic mathematics and calculus are prerequisites.

Additional text

‘[The book] articulates novel, leading edge quantitative methods that include metaheuristic methods and artificial intelligence applications. These are relatively new in transportation.’
-- David Gillingwater, Loughborough University, UK

Product details

• Authors: Milo¿ Nikoli¿, Milos Nikolic, Miloš Nikolić, Du¿an Teodorovi¿, Dusan Teodorovic, Dusan (University of Belgrade Teodorovic, Dusan Nikolic Teodorovic, Dušan Teodorović
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367250546
• ISBN: 978-0-367-25054-6
• No. of pages: 462
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; TRANSPORTATION / General, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, MATHEMATICS / Applied, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Transportation, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / Bayesian Analysis, Probability & statistics, Stochastics, Mathematical modelling, Probability and statistics, Transport technology and trades, Transport Technology & Trades