In the last couple of decades transportation systems analysis has emerged as a
recognized profession.
More and more government organizations, universities, researchers, consultants,
and private industrial groups around the world are becoming truly multi-modal
in their orientation and are opting a systematic approach to transportation
problems.
The characteristics of transportation system that makes it diverse and complex
are listed below:
- Multi-modal: Covering all modes of transport; air, land, and sea
for both passenger and freight.
- Multi-sector: Encompassing the problems and viewpoints of
government, private industry, and public.
- Multi-problem: Ranging across a spectrum of issues that includes
national and international policy, planning of regional system, the location
and design of specific facilities, carrier management issues, regulatory,
institutional and financial policies.
- Multi-objective: Aiming at national and regional economic
development, urban development, environment quality, and social quality, as
well as service to users and financial and economic feasibility.
- Multi-disciplinary: Drawing on the theories and methods of
engineering, economics, operations research, political science, psychology,
other natural, and social sciences, management and law.
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