ABSTRACT
Managing the transportation infrastructure entails balancing different objectives that may be in conflict-maximize throughput, maximize reliability and service quality, minimize accidents, minimize vulnerability, minimize environmental degradation and energy use, maximize productivity, and so on. Improvements in one objective sometimes entail degradation in another, requiring difficult trade-offs to be made. This talk will highlight the role of emerging technologies and new operational concepts in the management of transportation networks and delivery of transportation services, in a way that seeks to push the system towards improvements along several objectives simultaneously. The talk will also discuss methodological implications and approaches for both off-line evaluation as well as real-time operational decision-making in this context.
