6th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation

9 - 11 September 1998

School of Mathematics and Computing Sciences

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Notes on the sessions:

• Chair: If a person indicated in the below program is not able to act as a chairperson at the time stated, then he/she is kindly asked to let the conference organizer know before the conference or to approach a member of the conference secreteriat in good time before the respective session; we encourage the chairperson to arrange for a replacement. Chairpersons are kindly asked to strictly maintain the schedule, except for the case of a no-show, in which case the session continues without any time gaps.

• Presentations: If a speaker is not able to give his/her presentation at the time given, then please let the conference organizer know before the conference, so that a reschedule of the presentation can be made. Each talk is limited to 25 minutes in length, the remaining five minutes designated to questions.

• Program information: Each speaker is kindly asked to check that the information given below is correct, and to approach the conference organizer with corrections, if necessary.

• Program updates: If any updates of the program are made, then the date at the bottom of the page will tell. Any major updates will be highlighted in the program below. The final program will be distributed at registration.

Wednesday, 9 September:

• 10.00-12.00 Registration [Main entrance, Math Building]
• 12.00-13.30 Lunch [Student union restaurant]
• 13.30-14.00 Opening session [Lecture hall, Math Building]
• 14.00-16.00 Session 1.a: Stochastic traffic models, I [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: D. Watling
  • 14.00-14.30 S.P. Evans: Some approaches to the stochastic modelling of traffic assignment
  • 14.30-15.00 G.E. Cantarella (with M. Binetti): Stochastic assignment with Gamma distributed perceived costs
  • 15.00-15.30 E. Cascetta (with A. Papola): An implicit availability/perception random utility model for path choice
  • 15.30-16.00 C. Cassir (with M.G.H. Bell): Performance reliability of transportation networks: A SUE sensitivity based approach
• 14.00-16.00 Session 1.b: Routing Applications, I [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: M. Christiansen
  • 14.00-14.30 A.B. Ndiaye: The model OLREMSE: Optimal localization of emergency services and optimal route choice in case of intervention
  • 14.30-15.00 G.U. Seidler: The slot allocation problem: Recent results for real world data
  • 15.00-15.30 A. Larsen (with O.B.G. Madsen): Dynamic vehicle routing: Models and applications
  • 15.30-16.00 D. Vigo (with P. Toth): A granular tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem
• 16.00-16.30 Coffee break [Main entrance, Math Building]
• 16.30-18.30 Session 2.a: Stochastic traffic models, II [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: E. Cascetta
  • 16.30-17.00 D. Watling: Stochastic modelling of route choice in traffic networks under stochastic demand
  • 17.00-17.30 X. Zhang (with M.J. Maher and P.C. Hughes) : The stochastic user equilibrium assignment problem with elastic demand: A comparison of new approaches
  • 17.30-18.00 M. Thust: Simultaneous capacity restricted assignment, modal split and distribution employing nested logit models
  • 18.00-18.30 P. Coppola (with G.N. Bifulco): A joint model of mode/parking choice with elastic parking demand
• 16.30-18.30 Session 2.b: Flexible Transport Systems [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: M. Bielli
  • 16.30-17.00 F. Malucelli (with T.G. Crainic, M. Nonato and S. Pallottino): Heuristic approaches for flexible transit
  • 17.00-17.30 B. Fortz (with C. Allal and B. Colson): A simulation tool for a park-and-ride integrated system
  • 17.30-18.00 C. Allal (with B. Colson and B. Fortz): Dynamic routing in a demand-responsive transport system
  • 18.00-18.30 B. Colson (with C. Allal and B. Fortz): Travel time prediction for flexible transport systems

Thursday, 10 September:

• 8.00-10.00 Session 3.a: Dynamic traffic models, I [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: S.P. Evans
  • 8.00-8.30 G.E. Cantarella (with V. Adamo, V. Astarita and E. Cascetta): A doubly dynamic traffic assignment model
  • 8.30-9.00 C. Gawron (with P. Wagner): Calculating the dynamic user equilibrium route choices in large networks
  • 8.30-9.00 H.-K. Chen (with C.-Y. Wang): Dynamic user-optimal route choice problem with link capacity side constraint
  • 9.30-10.00 A. Nuzzolo (with U. Crisalli and F. Russo): A stochastic time-dependent path choice model for urban transit networks
• 8.00-10.00 Session 3.b: Routing Applications, II [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: D. Vigo
  • 8.00-8.30 K. Fagerholt (with S.I. Heimdal and A. Loktu): Shortest path in the presence of obstacles: An application to ship routing
  • 8.30-9.00 M. Christiansen (with B. Nygreen): A ship routing problem with soft inventory constraints
  • 9.00-9.30 R.M.P. Goverde: Optimal transfer times in railway timetables
  • 9.30-10.00 S. Ricci (with G. Malavasi): Reliability of railway transport systems: Evaluation and improvement by means of simulation
• 10.00-10.30 Coffee break [Main entrance, Math Building]
• 10.30-12.30 Session 4.a: Transportation Modelling [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: J. Lundgren
  • 10.30-11.00 M. Bielli (with P. Carotenuto and U. Crisalli): Trends in traffic and transportation systems modelling
  • 11.00-11.30 G.N. Bifulco: Transport and land-use: a behavioural approach based on decision-makers
  • 11.30-12.00 P.-O. Lindberg (with T. Larsson, J. Lundgren, M. Patriksson and C. Rydergren): On traffic equilibria with nonlinear time/money relation
  • 12.00-12.30 S. Erlander: Testing the efficiency assumption
• 10.30-12.30 Session 4.b: Railway modelling [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: R.M.P. Goverde
  • 10.30-11.00 A.F. de Kort (with R.-J. van Egmond, G. Hooghiemstra and B. Heidergott): Modeling and analysis of queueing processes at railway stations: A case study
  • 11.00-11.30 P. Mancuso (with P. Reverberi): Operating cost and scope economies in railway services: The case of Italy, 1980-1995
  • 11.30-12.00 T. Mellouli: Periodic maintenence routing for IC/EC trains of Deutsche Bahn by a flow model based on a state-expanded time-space network
  • 12.00-12.30 K. Nachtigall: Optimal stock circulation versus minimal waiting times in periodic railway networks
• 12.30-14.00 Lunch [Student union restaurant]
• 14.00-15.30 Session 5.a: OD Matrix Estimation [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: P.-O. Lindberg
  • 14.00-14.30 F. Leurent: Dual solution of the multiproportional problem
  • 14.30-15.00 R. Garcia (with A. Marin): A bilevel programming approach for estimation of origin-destination matrix and calibration of a network equilibrium model with combined modes
  • 15.00-15.30 X. Zhang (with M. Maher): An algorithm for trip matrix estimation and for traffic signal optimisation on congested networks
• 14.00-15.30 Session 5.b: Dynamic traffic models, II [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: G.E. Cantarella
  • 14.00-14.30 S.P. Hoogendoorn (with P.H.L. Bovy): Macroscopic modelling of multiple user-class traffic flow using conservative variables
  • 14.30-15.00 J.P. Lebacque (with M.M. Khoshyaran): First order macroscopic traffic flow models in the context of dynamic assignment
  • 15.00-15.30 S. Hoogendorn-Lanser (with S.P. Hoogendoorn and P.H.L. Bovy): Fuzzy modelling of urban travel choice behaviour
• 15.30-16.00 Coffee break [Main entrance, Math Building]
• 16.00-17.30 Session 6.a: Public Transport Models, II [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: B. Colson
  • 16.00-16.30 A. Schöbel (with H.W. Hamacher): Design of zone tariff systems in public transportation
  • 16.30-17.00 P. Carotenuto (with M. Caramia and G. Confessore): An iterative scheme for bus networks optimization
  • 17.00-17.30 S. Carrese (with E. Cipriani, S. Gori and T. Picano): An urban bus network design procedure
• 16.00-17.30 Session 6.b: Optimal Signal Control [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: X. Zhang
  • 16.00-16.30 J. Niitymäki: Fuzzy traffic signal control: Fuzzification and defuzzification methods
  • 16.30-17.00 E. Cascetta (with M. Gallo and B. Montella): Optimal signal setting on traffic networks with stochastic equilibrium assignment
  • 17.00-17.30 A. Clune (with A. Battye, M.J. Smith and Y. Xiang): Cone fields and the cone projection method of designing signal settings and prices for transportation networks
• 20.00-23.00 Conference dinner [Feskekörka]

Friday, 11 September:

• 8.30-10.00 Session 7.a: Transportation Systems [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: S. Erlander
  • 8.30-9.00 A. Berri: Analysis of car ownership in different countries: A demographic modeling
  • 9.00-9.30 M. Bielli (with P. Carotenuto and C. Gentile): Application of technology forecasting methods to transportation systems
  • 9.30-10.00 M. Dell'Orco: Effects of information in ATIS environment
• 8.30-10.00 Session 7.b: Traffic Management [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: D. Boyce
  • 8.30-9.00 A. Adamski: Integrated pro-ecological traffic planning and management approach
  • 9.00-9.30 L. Montero (with J. Barcelo, J. Casas, D. Garcia and J.L. Ferrer) : Architectures for advanced wide area traffic management
  • 9.30-10.00 B. Masquilier: A traffic simulation model combined with a pollutant emission simulation model
• 10.00-10.30 Coffee break [Main entrance, Math Building]
• 10.30-12.30 Session 8.a: Traffic equilibrium methods [Lecture hall, Math Building]
  • Chair: F. Leurent
  • 10.30-11.00 H. Bar-Gera (with D. Boyce): Origin-based network assignment
  • 11.00-11.30 C. Rydergren (with T. Larsson, J. Lundgren and M. Patriksson): Most likely traffic equilibrium route flows: Analysis and computation
  • 11.30-12.00 J.A. Seijas-Macias (with L.P. Pedreira-Andrade): Traffic equilibrium assignment using an active set method with bound constraints
  • 12.00-12.30 Y. Xiang (with M.J. Smith): A new general equilibrium model
• 10.30-12.30 Session 8.b: Dynamic traffic models, III [Reading room, Math Building]
  • Chair: G.N. Bifulco
  • 10.30-11.00 J.T. Hughes: AIMSUN2 simulation of a congested Auckland freeway
  • 11.00-11.30 L. Montero (with E. Codina, J. Barcelo and P. Barcelo): A methodology for private transportation planning assessment: GETRAM environment. An application to Barcelona's metropolitan area
  • 11.30-12.00 M.C.J. Bliemer: Multi-user travel time functions
  • 12.00-12.30 R.-J. van Egmond: Propagation of delays in public transport
• 12.30-13.00 Closing session [Lecture hall, Math Building]
• 13.00-14.30 Lunch [Student union restaurant]