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Laboratories for Research on Freight Systems and Planning
Urban Informatics, pp.171-195
The Urban Book Series, Springer Nature Singapore
2021
Abstract
Advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) and the advent of novel mobility solutions have brought about drastic changes in the urban mobility environment. Pervasive ICT devices acquire new sources of data that can inform detailed transportation simulation models, and are useful in analyzing new policies and technologies. In this context, we developed software laboratories that leverage the latest technological developments and enhance freight research. Future mobility sensing (FMS) is a data-collection platform that integrates tracking devices and mobile apps, a backend with machine-learning technologies and user interfaces to deliver highly accurate and detailed mobility data. The second platform, SimMobility, is an open-source, agent-based urban simulation platform which replicates urban passenger and goods movements in a fully disaggregated manner. The two platforms have been used jointly to advance the state of the art in behavioral modeling for passenger and goods movements. In this chapter, we review recent developments in freight-transportation data-collection techniques, including contributions to transportation modeling, and state-of-the-art transportation models. We then introduce FMS and SimMobility and demonstrate a coordinated application using three examples. Lastly, we highlight potential innovations and future challenges in these research domains.
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- Title
- Laboratories for Research on Freight Systems and Planning
- Authors
- André Romano Alho (Corresponding Author) - Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and TechnologyTakanori Sakai - Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and TechnologyFang Zhao - Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and TechnologyLinlin You - Sun Yat-sen UniversityPeiyu Jing - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLynette Cheah - Singapore University of Technology and DesignChristopher Zegras - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMoshe Ben-Akiva - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Contributors
- Wenzhong Shi (Editor) - Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityMichael Goodchild (Editor) - University of California, Santa BarbaraMichael Batty (Editor) - University College LondonMei-Po Kwan (Editor) - Chinese University of Hong KongAnshu Zhang (Editor) - Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Publication details
- Urban Informatics, pp.171-195
- Series
- The Urban Book Series
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_12; 10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6
- ISSN
- 2365-7588; 2365-7588; 2365-757X
- ISBN
- 9789811589836
- Copyright note
- © 2021 The Author(s). This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991029391102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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