Copy of Sustainable Tranportation: Re-thinking Exisiting Systems

Falling budget, political, and environmental constraints force decision makers and transportation authorities to develop innovative ways to better manage existing facilities. Managed lanes, more specifically, high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) and high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, have been recognized as viable options to improve vehicle trips without constructing additional capacity. (2015)

Highway right-of-way (ROW) areas are becoming recognized as potential alternative energy resources to many state departments of transportation (DOTs). In an era of limited state DOT budgets, ROW areas can be a source of income and cost savings to DOTs for alternative energy development, especially in the area of solar energy. (2014)

Based on the analysis of the combined freight transport network - which consists of highways, waterways, and railways - an optimization model is presented with consideration of the environmental costs of CO2 emissions and transit cost during the transferring. (2014)

The development of transport policy measures to reduce negative environmental impacts and social costs is crucial for decision makers and traffic researchers seeking ways to decrease transport demand (mostly passenger car) and congestion levels. (2015)

This paper explores potential governance responses to driverless automobility by considering how the transportation system is reproduced by agents – travelers, regulators, companies and other groups - through a case study of Uber, a taxi service that utilizes riders’ global positioning system (GPS)-enabled smartphones. (2015)

While activity based models are starting to be used for actual transportation metropolitan planning and policy-making; experience is lacking in using the wealth of information and measures such models provide. This paper shows the implementation of an advanced activity-based model developed for the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area for use in analyzing various transport, activity, and emission impacts of auto restraint, transit and land-use policies. (2015)

This paper critically reflects on traditional transportation planning and two potential alternatives: transportation planning for sustainability and transportation planning for accessibility. (2015)