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Incorporating Robustness Analysis into Urban Transportation Planning Process

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Network Reliability in Practice

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When developing a regional transportation plan (RTP), growth assumptions are made for socioeconomic factors such as population, housing, and employment for a future planning horizon. In turn, these factors become the basis of projecting future transportation networks, streets, highways, transit loadings, and the resulting traffic flows. Like any future forecasting, these assumptions are bound to contain some errors.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, Ohio, 45469, USA

    Deogratias Eustace

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, 2118 Fiedler Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

    Eugene Russell

  3. Kansas State University, 2118 Fiedler Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

    Landman E. Dean

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  1. Deogratias Eustace
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Correspondence to Deogratias Eustace .

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  1. , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Pillsbury Dr. S E 500, Minneapolis, 55455, Minnesota, USA

    David M. Levinson

  2. , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Pillsbury Dr S E 500, Minneapolis, 55455, Minnesota, USA

    Henry X. Liu

  3. Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

    Michael Bell

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Eustace, D., Russell, E., Dean, L.E. (2012). Incorporating Robustness Analysis into Urban Transportation Planning Process. In: Levinson, D., Liu, H., Bell, M. (eds) Network Reliability in Practice. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0947-2_7

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