Abstract: Disaster response in areas of high population density is centered on efficient evacuation of people and/or goods. Developing evacuation plans suitable for different levels of urgency based on the intensity of threat is a ...

Abstract: Work zones have become the second largest contributor to the nonrecurring delay disruptions of traffic on US highways. The development of a sound model to minimize the total cost (i.e., road user cost and agency cost) ...

Abstract: Estimating truck fleet size for winter road maintenance, such as snowplowing, is a challenging task for highway maintenance agencies. To estimate the fleet size for a snowplowing operation, a mathematic model is developed ...

Abstract: Ensuring a transportation system’s operational efficiency and effectiveness is a challenge particularly for road maintenance agencies in winter times. Winter road maintenance involves snow plowing and chemicals/abrasives ...

Abstract: A CORSIM-based microscopic simulation model is developed, which provides transit planners and operators with the ability to simulate bus operations on transit routes. Several modules in CORSIM for processing bus operations ...