SEARCH AND CHOICE IN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS PLANNING. VOLUME II. A PROTOTYPE ANALYSIS.

Abstract

A prototype system designed for the equilibrium analysis of regional multimodal transportation systems is described, and the system is used to analyze an aggregated representation of air, rail and private automobile travel in the Northeast Corridor. The system has been designed to illustrate the importance and usefulness of applying the equilibrium approach to transportation systems analysis. The theoretical framework of this approach is, therefore, presented as an introduction. Many concepts arising from urban transportation planning methodology have been incorporated into the prototype system. For this reason, urban transportation is presented as a particular approximation of the equilibrium approach. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0693072

Entities

People

  • Earl R. Ruiter

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automobiles
  • Laboratory Procedures
  • Land Transportation
  • Marine Transportation
  • Pilot Studies
  • Prototypes
  • Surface Transportation
  • Systems Analysis
  • Transport Ships
  • Transportation
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics.