Mathematical Problems in Engineering Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Engineering Guest Editors: Wuhong Wang, Klaus Bengler, Geert Wets, and Huimin Niu Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Engineering Mathematical Problems in Engineering Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Engineering Guest Editors: Wuhong Wang, Klaus Bengler, Geert Wets, and Huimin Niu Copyright©2013HindawiPublishingCorporation.Allrightsreserved. Thisisaspecialissuepublishedin“MathematicalProblemsinEngineering.”Allarticlesareopenaccessarticlesdistributedunderthe CreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedthe originalworkisproperlycited. 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whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Transportationproblemsincludingcongestion,accidentsand (ix)vehicleactivesafetyandintelligentvehicle, pollution emissions have become important topics, which (x)energy,transportpolicy,andeconomics, haveimpactonsocialandeconomicdevelopments.Recently, the mathematical modeling and simulation methods have (xi)drivingbehavioranddriverassistancesystem. receivedconsiderableattentionregardingtheirpotentialasa Sinceourdailylifeandworkarecloselyrelatedtotraffic powerfultechniquethatcanbewidelyappliedtosolvetraffic andmobility,transportationdemandhasincreaseddramati- andmobilityoperations. cally.Followingthisincrease,weadditionallyhavetobalance This special issue presented an overview of the efforts theincreasingdesireformobilityandefficiencywiththesoci- for creating a safe, green, and intelligent transportation, etalconcernsabouttrafficproblems.Today’strafficdemand especiallythenewachievementofintelligenttransportation is predominantly served by individual motorized vehicles, system(ITS)whichhasbeenreviewedinenoughdetail.This whicharetheprimarymeansoftransportation. special issue aims at gathering the current state of the art Sofarthesignificanteffortsforimprovingtransportation of mathematical modeling and computational intelligence circumstancebyusingnewtechnologieshavebeenmade.In that is applied into transportation engineering. The papers recentyears,ITSactivitieshavefocusedonGreenIntelligence submittedtothisspecialissuehavegreatcontributiontothe Transportation System, which contributes to sustainability applicationofmathematicalmethodsandmodelsorshould and environmental conservation compared to ITS tech- be the representative study in the field of transportation nologies. More advanced transportation applications will research. The main topics of the special issue include the materializeanaccident-freetrafficintheforeseeablefuture. following: Transportation engineering would no doubt move forward (i)intelligenttransportationsystem(ITS), in the direction of safe, reliable, and economic techniques; (ii)logisticsandtransportationmanagement, further improvements will be made in the integration of driverassistancesystemsandtransportationsafety. (iii)transitandrailsystemsoperation, Aimingatsummarizingthestate-of-the-artofmodeling (iv)trafficflowandtransportationmodel, and simulation in the context of modern transportation (v)mathematicaloptimizationintrafficengineering, systems and the debate on the traffic problems, this special issueintendstointroduceanddiscussthedevelopmentsand (vi)trafficsafetyandemergenceresponse, applicationsofmodelingandsimulationintrafficandmobil- (vii)renewableenergysourcesintransportation, ityfromtheperspectiveofintelligenttransportationsystems. (viii)transportplanningandroadtraffic, Wehopethatthepapersinthisspecialissueprovideviewsof