In this paper, we address the issues of coal supply and blending pertaining to an electric utility company in Taiwan. Since the fuel used by coal-fired power plants are mainly imported in bulk from overseas sources, the planning of coal shipping and blending is of great economic importance. This...

Without successful large-scale regional evacuations, threats such as hurricanes and wild-fires can cause a large loss of life. In this context, automobiles are oftentimes an essential transportation mode for evacuations, but the ensuing traffic typically overwhelms the roadway capacity and...

Knowledge of motorists' origin-destination (OD) travel information is necessary for a wide range of transportation planning activities. The high cost of manpower and other expenses associated with conventional survey techniques for OD estimation have motivated the development of models that can...

We present a nonproportional-assignment, user-equilibrium motivated, linear programming model for estimating origin-destination (O-D) trip tables from available data on link traffic volumes. The model is designed to determine a traffic equilibrium network flow solution that reproduces the link...