It is essential to build, maintain, and use our transportation systems in a manner that meets our current needs while addressing the social and economic needs of future generations. In today's world, transportation congestion causes serious negative impacts to our societies. To …
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The utilization of wind energy will pose great socioeconomic benefits with reductions in power plant emissions and the supply of zero cost energy; however, large-scale wind energy integration could introduce inevitable challenges to regional transmission systems and hourly syste…
Congestion control is the most important part of ATM's ABR service since it has to fully utilize the available bandwidth without causing cell losses. The congestion control for high speed networks like ATM require a local flow controller at bottleneck nodes. In this thesis, we a…
This thesis examines traffic congestion in twentieth-century London. Ideas about movement, mobility and circulation in the capital's streets intersect with a broad range of discourses and practices, from planning to policing, and from engineering to economics. Within these disco…
Traffic congestion is a significant cost to society, amounting to somewhere between 1 and 2% of GDP according to an EU-wide survey (CE Delft, 2011). To address this cost, road pricing has long been viewed as the first best solution although issues with public and political accep…
This dissertation develops mathematical models to efficiently manage the inland waterway port operations while minimizing the overall supply chain cost. In the first part, a capacitated, multi-commodity, multi-period mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed capturing d…