*************** New book from Elsevier ***************
The Network Reliability of Transport: Proceedings of the 1st International
Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR), Kyoto, 31 July-1
August 2001
Edited by M.G.H. Bell and Y. Iida.
* Year: 2003 * Hardbound * ISBN: 0-08-044109-2 * 438 pages * Price: USD 95
EUR 95 * Pergamon *
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, The Network Reliability of Transport, is an outcome of the First
International Symposium on Transport Network Reliability (INSTR), held at
Kyoto in 2001, and consists of twenty-four 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.
For further information on this book and to view the table of contents,
please see:
http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/7/2/7/6/6/index.htt
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