The ISTTT series is the main gathering for the world?s transportation and traffic theorists, and the resulting volume is a field-defining milestone featuring the most promising thinking and theoretical developments. It reflects the major renewal the field is experiencing, with the entry of many new scientists from a variety of disciplines, and the mutual coexistence of a growing number of theoretical perspectives and modelling cultures. While this volume covers a wide range of aspects of the modelling of transportation processes as complex systems, an overarching theme is the recognition that these systems are a collective expression of individual human decisions. A significant number of the contributions published here therefore deal with some aspect of human behaviour – whether as travellers, drivers, passengers, operators, or regulators – reflecting the great strides being made in developing theories and mathematical representations of these phenomena. This book contains the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory ( ISTTT ) that was held at the University of Maryland, College Park in Maryland, USA from July 18 - 21, 2005. (Author/publisher)
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