Product Description: "… a well structured and documented book that certainly reflects the new era of logistics." Journal of the Operational Research Society (of a previous edition) Expanded edition includes new research results and numerous modifications to enhance comprehensiveness and clarity...read more

Product Description: This book summarizes a set of lectures given at U.C. Berkeley in the Fall of 2001, highlighting the connection between traffic flow, queuing systems and supply chains. The book unveils the root causes of the "bullwhip" effect; i.e...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field that should be understood by every transportation professional are presented here in a thorough, coherent, and self-contained way. Introductory chapters on "tools" cover topics such as graphical methods, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, statistics and simulation; these are complemented by application chapters on traffic dynamics, control, observation, and scheduled modes, where the fundamental ideas are presented in depth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains recent theoretical and empirical results on the study of traffic flows in urban areas, the optimal control and routing of such traffic, and the analysis of the transportation system performance. The 32 papers address a variety of topics on the scientific aspects of transportation phenomena...read more