Introduction to Transportation Systems

[S] = Small, Kenneth, and Erik T. Verhoef. The Economics of Urban Transportation . New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415285155.

[M] = Gomez-Ibanez, Jose, William B. Tye, and Clifford Winston, eds. Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy: A Handbook in Honor of John R. Meyer . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780815731818.

[C] = Cascetta, Ennio. Transportation Systems Analysis: Models and Applications . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Springer, forthcoming in 2009. ISBN: 9780387758565.

LEC #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: [S] Chapter 1

LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Discrete choice analysis I · READINGS: [S] Chapter 2 · OPTIONAL READINGS: [M] Chapter 1; [C] Chapter 2

LEC #: 4 · TOPICS: Discrete choice analysis II · READINGS: [S] Chapter 2 · OPTIONAL READINGS: [M] Chapter 1; [C] Chapter 2

LEC #: 5 · TOPICS: Travel demand modeling · READINGS: Meyer, Michael, and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327. (Read chapter 5.4) · OPTIONAL READINGS: [C] Chapter 4

[C] Chapter 4.6

[C] Chapter 4

LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Organizational models · READINGS: Rye, T., and Nigel H. M. Wilson. “The Urban Bus Situation in the UK: Recent Developments and a Case Study of Edinburgh.” Paper presented at TRAIL Seminar on Competition, Public Transport and Service Innovations, March 2002, TU Delft, The Netherlands.

LEC #: 8 · TOPICS: Path choice models · READINGS: Guo, Zhan, and Nigel H. M. Wilson. “Assessment of the Transfer Penalty for Transit Trips: A GIS-Based Disaggregate Modeling Approach.” Transportation Research Record 1872 (2004): 10-18.

LEC #: 10 · TOPICS: Transportation costs · READINGS: [M] Chapter 3

LEC #: 12 · TOPICS: Pricing of transportation services: theory and practice I · READINGS: [M] Chapter 4

LEC #: 13 · TOPICS: Pricing of transportation services: theory and practice II · READINGS: [S] Chapters 4.1.1, 4.2.1, 4.3, and 4.5 · OPTIONAL READINGS: [M] Chapter 6

Meersman, Hilde, and Eddy Van de Voorde. “Dynamic Ports Within a Globalised World.” In 17th International ITF/OECD Symposium on Transport Economics and Policy: Benefitting from Globalisation: Transport Sector Contribution and Policy Challenges . Paris, France: OECD Publishing, 2008, pp. 321-346. ISBN: 9789282101681. Heaver, T., Hilde Meersman, and Eddy Van de Voorde. “Co-operation and Competition in Internal Container Transport.” Maritime Policy and Management 28, no. 3 (2001): 293-305.

Van de Voorde, Eddy. “What Future the Maritime Sector?” Research in Transportation Economics 13 (2005): 253-277.

Meersman, Hilde. “Port Investments in an Uncertain Environment.” Research in Transportation Economics 13, no. 1 (2005): 279-298.

Meersman, Hilde, and Eddy Van de Voorde. “Competition and Ownership: Transferability of Experiences from Maritime Transport to Land-Based Modes.” Chapter 15 in Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport: Selected papers from the 9th International Conference . New York, NY: Elsevier Science, 2007. ISBN: 9780080450957.

Bowman, J. L., Gopinath, D., and Moshe Ben-Akiva. “Estimating the Probability Distribution of a Travel Demand Forecast.” Working Paper, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.

Lam, T. C., and Kenneth Small. “The Value of Time and Reliability: Measurement from a Value Pricing Experiment.” Transportation Research Part E 37, no. 3 (2001): 231-251.

Ben-Akiva, M., D. Bolduc, and M. Bradley. “Estimation of Travel Choice Models with Randomly Distributed Value of Time.” Transportation Research Record 1413 (1993): 88-97.

Gopinath, D. A., and Moshe Ben-Akiva. “Estimation of Randomly Distributed Value of Time.” Working Paper, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997.

Smith, Barry, et al. “Yield Management at American Airlines.” Interfaces 22, no. 1 (1992): 8-31.

Barnhart, Cynthia, et al. “Applications of Operations Research in the Air Transport Industry.” Transportation Science 37, no. 4 (2003): 368-391.

Boyd, E. Andrew, and Royce Kallesen. “The Science of Revenue Management when Passengers Purchase the Lowest Available Fare.” Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management 3, no. 2 (2004): 171-177.

[S] Chapters 6.2-6.4

[M] Chapters 14-15

Rye, T., and Nigel H. M. Wilson. “The Urban Bus Situation in the UK: Recent Developments and a Case Study of Edinburgh.” Paper presented at TRAIL Seminar on Competition, Public Transport and Service Innovations, March 2002, TU Delft, The Netherlands.

[S] Chapter 5.2-3

[C] Chapters 10.1, 10.2.1-2, and 10.3.1-3

LEC #: 25 · TOPICS: Mobility demand in developing countries: some examples · READINGS: Srinivasan, Karthik K., P. V. Lakshmi Bhargav, Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, Vidhya Muthuram, and Sumeeta Srinivasan. “Determinants of Changes in Mobility and Travel Patterns in Developing Countries: Case Study of Chennai, India.” Transportation Research Record 2038 (2008): 42-52.

[S] Chapter 7

Nicholson, Walter, and Christopher Snyder. Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions . 10th ed. New York, NY: South-Western College Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 9780324421620. Read Parts I, II, and IV.

Larsen, Richard, and Morris Marx. An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and its Applications . 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN: 9780131867932. Read Chapters 1-6 and 11.

DeGroot, Morris, and Mark Schervish. Probability and Statistics . 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Addison Wesley, 2006. ISBN: 9781428813809.

Pindyck, Robert, and Daniel Rubinfeld. Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts . 4th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1997. ISBN: 9780079132925.

Greene, William. Econometric Analysis . 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 9780130661890. Read Chapters 1, 2, and 6.

Introduction to Transportation Systems , text by Joseph M. Sussman,

Sussman, Joseph. Introduction to Transportation Systems . Norwood, MA: Artech House Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 1580531415.

R4: Sussman, Joseph M. “Educating the New Transportation Professional.” ITS Quarterly (Summer 1995): 3-10.

R8: Gomez-Ibañez, Jose A., William B. Tye, and Clifford Winston. “Demand.” In Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN: 0815731817.

R10: Shrock, David L. “The Functional Approach to Motor Carrier Costing: Applications and Limitations.” Proceedings, 27th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum (1986): 181-188.

R11: Martland, Carl. “Allocating the Costs of Railroad Infrastructure to Specific Traffic Classes.” Proceedings of Workshop on Integrated Transportation and Economic Modeling (ITEM) 2001.

R12: ———. “Performance-Based Technology Scanning Applied to Containerizable Freight Traffic.” Journal of the Transportation Research Forum 57, no. 2 (2003): 119-34.

R13: Guo, Zhan, and Nigel H. M. Wilson. “Assessment of the Transfer Penalty for Transit Trips: A GIS-based Disaggregate Modeling Approach.” Transportation Research Record 1872 (2004): 10-18.

R14: Pucher, John, and Christian Lefevre. The Urban Transport Crisis in Europe and North America . London, UK: MacMillan, 1996, chapters 2, 9, and 10. ISBN: 0333627954.

R15: Furth, P. G., and N. Wilson. “Setting Frequencies on Bus Routes: Theory and Practice.” Transportation Research Record 818 (1981): 1-7.

R16: Kumar, Vimal, and Carl D. Martland. “Assessment of Current Project Evaluation Techniques.” Working Paper PE-1, September 2003.

R17: National Cooperative Highway Research Program. “Emerging Models for Delivering Transportation Programs and Services.” Research Results Digest 236 (March 1999).

R18: Molina, Luisa. Air Quality in the Mexico Megacity: An Integrated Assessment . Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 1402005075.

R20: Coughlin, Joseph F., and Bryan Reimer. “New Demands from an Older Population: An Integrated Approach to Defining the Future of Older Driver Safety.” Proceedings of the SAE Convergence Conference (2006).

Intro to TS. Chapters 1-4.

Intro to TS. Chapters 6-9.

Intro to TS. Chapters 10-11.

Intro to TS. Chapter 23.

Intro to TS. Chapter 22.

Intro to TS. Chapter 21.

11 · Urban Public Transportation · Intro to TS. Chapter 28.

Intro to TS. Chapter 30.

Intro to TS. Chapter 29.

14 · Introduction to Freight / LOS / Logistics · Intro to TS. Chapter 12.

15 · LOS / Logistics (cont.) · Intro to TS. Chapter 14.

16 · Modes and their Characteristics — Costs / Service / Operations · Intro to TS. Chapter 16.

17 · Operations / Operating Plans / Strategic Plans · Intro to TS. Chapters 17 and 19.

18 · Freight Intermodalism / International Transportation · Intro to TS. Chapter 20.

21 · Transportation Technologies — Their Role and Limitations · Intro to TS. Chapter 24.