Design, Data Collection, and Driver Behavior Simulation for the Open- Mode Integrated Transportation System (OMITS)

With the remarkable increase in the population and number of vehicles, traffic has become a severe problem in most metropolitan areas. Traffic congestion has imposed tight constraints on economic growth, national security, and mobility of riders and goods. The open-mode integrated transportation system (OMITS) has been designed to improve the traffic condition of roadways by increasing the ridership of vehicles and optimizing transportation modes through smart services integrating emerging information communication technologies, big data management, social networking, and transportation management. Even a modest reduction in the number of vehicles on roadways will lead to a considerable cost savings in terms of time and money. Additionally the reduction in traffic jams will lead to a significant decrease in both gasoline consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, novel transportation management is critical to reduce vehicle mileage in the peak time of the road network. The OMITS was proposed to enhance transportation services in respect to the following three aspects: optimization of the transportation modes by multimodal traveling assignment, dynamic routing and ridesh