Special Session on Traffic and Transportation

Session Chairs:
Dr. Mauro Dell'Orco
Associate Professor, Department of Roads and Transportation, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Email: dellorco@poliba.it

Dr. Michele Ottomanelli
Department of Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Email: m.ottomanelli@poliba.it

Abstract:
Understanding of the decision making process of humans is an essential component of the transportation planning process. Given a set of stimuli in the form of transportation service alternatives, humans, individually or collectively, make certain decisions or choices. To predict these responses and choices, models of human stimulus-response pattern are used. Since Uncertainty is an inseparable part of the problem when dealing with human reasoning process, it is consequently crucial in problems of transportation planning and engineering.

The connection among uncertainty and travelers’ choices has become the central subject in recent years in view of the worldwide effort to advance methods and models for transportation planning. This special session of WSC10 devoted to “Application of Multivariate Logic in Transportation Problems”, aims to review the recent progresses in the subject and to develop greater understanding of uncertainty treatment in transportation problems, as well as building a greater circle of researchers interested in this discipline. Topics concern both theory and innovative applications to real world problems. Especially, advance in applications of Uncertainty Treatment, Possibility Theory, Fuzzy Logic, Soft Computing, information and Choice applied to transportation engineering and planning problems, with emphasis to Travel demand forecasting, Transportation planning, land use and policy making processes, Intelligent Transportation Systems.

For more information on this Special Session, please contact the Session Chair, Mauro Dell'Orco, Email: dellorco@poliba.it