Sustainable Technologies
Applied Research (STAR) Initiative
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(funded by Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs State and Local
Public Policy Project from Grant Through Intelligent Transportation Systems
Institute. Investigator-David Levinson (~$210,000 total over 6 years.))
(See http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/slp/tea21.htm
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Original Abstract:
This research endeavors to understand the dynamic growth process of transportation
networks at a theoretical and empirical level, recognizing the interdependence
of supply and demand, and to develop a model to replicate that process.
Key questions to be examined include: Why do networks expand and contract?
How do expectations of the future (forecasts) affect current decisions?
Do networks self-organize into hierarchies? What investment rules predict
the sequence and location of network improvements? When are already existing
facilities expanded (more lanes on the same link) as opposed to new facilities
being provided (a new link)? How can transportation planning be improved
to take advantage of a new understanding of network dynamics?
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Presentations and Publications
- Yerra, B. and D. Levinson
(2004) The Emergence of Hierarchy
in Transportation Networks (How Networks Grow)- presented at Western
Regional Science Association Conference (February 2003)
- Parthasarathi, P, Levinson, D., and Karamalaputi, Ramachandra (2003)
Induced Demand: A Microscopic Perspective Urban Studies
Volume 40, Number 7 June 2003 pp. 1335-1353
- Zhang , Lei and David Levinson. (2004a) An Agent-Based Approach to Travel Demand Modeling: An Exploratory Analysis Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board #1898 pp. 28-38. (presented at Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting, January 10-14 2004, Washington DC.)
- How Networks Grow. University
of British Columbia Seminar. February 14, 2003
- Levinson, D. and Yerra,
Bhanu (2002) Transportation Network Dynamics INFORMS Conference San
Jose California Nov. 17-20 2002
- Zhang, Lei and Levinson,
D (2004), Road Pricing
with Autonomous Links
- Zhang, Lei and Levinson,
D (2004) A Model of the
Rise and Fall of Roads presented March 2003 at MIT Engineering Systems
Symposium
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Masters Theses
- Pavithra Kandadai Parthsarathi - October 2001 A Disaggregate Analysis
of Induced Demand
- Bhanu Yerra -Fall 2002 - The Emergence of Hierarchy in Transportation
Networks - won the 2003 Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science
- Lei Zhang - 2005 - A Simulator of Network Growth for Network Economics and Policy Analysis
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Ph.D. Dissertations
- Lei Zhang - 2006 - Search, Information, Learning, and Knowledge in Travel Decision-making: A Positive Approach for Travel Behavior and Demand Analysis.
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