Modeling of Transport Demand: Analyzing, Calculating, and Forecasting Transport Demand

ISBN-13: 9780128115138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 500 str.

Vassilios Profillidis; G. N. Botzoris

Spis treści

1. Transport demand and factors affecting it2. Evolution and trends of transport demand3. Methods of modeling transport demand4. Executive judgment, Delphi, scenario writing and survey methods5. Statistical methods for transport demand modeling6. Trend projection and time series methods7. Econometric, gravity and the 4-step methods8. Artificial intelligence - Neural network methods9. Fuzzy methods

O autorze

V.A. Profillidis is Professor for the Section of Transportation at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He holds
the Diploma in Civil Engineering from the University of Thessaloniki, MSc and PhD in Transportation from the
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and the Diploma in Law from the University of Thessaloniki. He
has acted as a consultant to many transport authorities. He has taken part in many international conferences as
well as meetings of the European Union, the World Bank, and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
He has carried out a number of transport studies in modeling and forecasting of demand, transport economics
and feasibility methods, traffic analysis and demand, intelligent transport systems, sustainable mobility, transport
and the environment, organization and management, airport, railway, metro, and port master plans. He has
written to this day 9 books and over 190 scientific papers that have been published in scientific journals, including
Elsevier's Journal of Air Transport Management, as well as conference proceedings. G.N. Botzoris is Assistant Professor for the Section of Transportation at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He
holds the Diploma in Civil Engineering, MSc in Business Administration, and PhD in Transportation. His research
interests include travel behavior analysis and modeling, analysis and forecast of transport demand, transport
economics and feasibility methods, public transport planning and policy, traffic analysis and management,
intelligent transport systems, sustainable mobility, and effects of transport activities on the environment. He is
coauthor of one book and of five chapters in edited volumes. He has written to this day over 140 scientific papers
that have been published in scientific journals, including Elsevier's Journal of Air Transport Management, as well
as conference proceedings.