National Transport Models: Recent Developments and Prospects

ISBN-13: 9783642076282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 204 str.

Lars Lundqvist; Lars-Goran Mattsson

Opis

Environmental impacts transcend regional and national boundaries and transport policies affecting these environmental impacts involve all spatial levels. This volume presents the state of the art and prospects of a sample of the most advanced national and European transport models within a comparative framework.

Spis treści

1 National Transport Models: Introduction and Comparative Analysis.- I The Model Development Context.- 2 An Overview of European National Models.- 3 Updating and Extending National Models.- 4 National Models: How to Make It Happen. The Case of the Swedish National Model System: SAMPERS.- 5 General Modelling Approaches: Top-down or Bottom-up?.- 6 Deterministic Time Table Transit Assignment.- II National Transport Models.- 7 Application Areas for the Dutch National Model.- 8 The New Swedish National Model — SAMPERS: System and Validation.- 9 SAMPERS — The New Swedish National Travel Demand Forecasting Tool.- 10 Italian Models: Application and Planned Development.- 11 PETRA — An Activity-based Approach to Travel Demand Analysis.- 12 GB Traffic Forecasts — Status and Development.- III European Transport Models.- 13 Designing the STREAMS Model of Europe.- 14 Tests of Nonlinearity, Modal Captivity and Spatial Competition within the STEMM Multicountry Application for Passengers.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Author Index.- Contributors.