Research Reports from the Department of Operations
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
6-1-1970
Abstract
This paper is essentially a survey of traffic network modeling techniques used in transportation studies and planning, a broad field with voluminous literature. It does not pretend to be exhaustive, but most of the relevant work is discussed, and an attempt is made to delineate an apparent trend in research approaches. Transportation research has grown in the past decade to the point where new journals have sprung up and funding is available; the problems of people movement are certainly not highest on the scale of current priorities, but improvements are in order. As with most other issues, transportation cannot be viewed in isolation; it is related to the tendency toward urban sprawl, made possible and encouraged by automobile travel, and to the trends toward decentralization of the business district. Many transit systems have deteriorated in the past two decades, community life is often disrupted by the building of massive freeways, and highway and parking facilities consume large amounts of land. Transportation is certainly one area of urban discontent.
Keywords
Operations research, Transportation--Research, Traffic flow--Mathematical models, Urban transportation, Cities and towns--Growth, Transportation--Planning
Publication Title
Technical Memorandums from the Department of Operations, School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Issue
Technical memorandum no. 191
Rights
This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use
Recommended Citation
Pill, Juri, "Modeling and Simulation of Urban Transportation Systems: A Survey" (1970). Research Reports from the Department of Operations. 317.
https://commons.case.edu/wsom-ops-reports/317