Publisher's Synopsis
These papers are organized from four sets of conference sessions: advanced technologies in transportation; transportation infrastructure management; information technology in transportation; and transportation planning and modeling. Topics include traveler information systems; data collection and estimation; information technology system (ITS) practices and technologies; incident detection and congestion management; advanced systems in hardware, information, and fuel; design, safety, and mobility; high speed transportation; advanced information systems and transportation policies; condition assessment; performance modeling of infrastructure systems; asset management; global information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) applications; remote sensing and spatial data application; planning and modeling; emergency preparedness and responses; public transportation systems; application of genetic algorithms; simulation; application of artificial neural networks; and new approaches in transportation computing. The 121 technical papers in this proceedings were presented at the Seventh International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation, held in Boston, Massachusetts, August 5-7, 2002.
