The fall 2014 issue of JTRF contains articles covering a broad range of topics. They are: 1. Optimizing Strategic Allocation of Vehicles for One-Way Car-sharing Systems Under Demand Uncertainty 2. Measuring Performance at a Large Metropolitan Area: The Case of the DC (District of Columbia) Metroplex 3. Determinants of Per Capita Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT): The Case of California 4. The Magnitudes of Economic and Non-Economic Factors in the Demand for U.S. Domestic Air Travel 5. Forecast of C02 Emissions From the U.S. Transportation Sector: Estimation from a Double Exponential Smoothing Model 6. State Variation in Railroad Wheat Rates 7. Factors Contributing to Police Attendance at Motor Vehicle Crash Scenes. The first article is by Wei Fan and it is titled "Optimizing Strategic Allocation of Vehicles for One-way Car-sharing Systems Under Demand Uncertainty." Fan's focus is on making car-sharing programs sustainable. To do so he develops a multistage stochastic optimization model to study the strategic allocation of car-sharing vehicles (OSCAV) in one-way car-sharing programs. His approach, involving a multistage linear programming model, is validated using "a seven-stage experimental network" with four car-sharing locations. According to Fan the validation provides high quality solutions suggesting that his proposed models can be used in real world applications.
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