Introduction: Cross Atlantic Perspectives in Methods and Models Analysing Transport and Telecommunications -- Traffic Forecasting and Transport Network Analysis -- Urban Travel Forecasting in the USA and UK -- Towards Developing a Travel Time Forecasting Model for Location-Based Services: A Review -- Transportation Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and Traffic Collision Analysis: A Methodology for the 21st Century -- A Sketch and Simulation of an Integrated Modelling Framework for the Study of Interdependent Infrastructure-Based Networked Systems -- Transportation, Communication and Sustainability: In Search of a Pathway to Comparative Research -- Freight Transport -- Can Freight Transport Models Be Transferred Across the Atlantic? -- Dynamic Game-Theoretic Models of Urban Freight: Formulation and Solution Approach -- A Multi-Criteria Methodology for Stated Preferences Among Freight Transport Alternatives -- An Adaptive Conjoint Analysis of Freight Service Alternatives: Evaluating the Maritime Option -- Telecommunications and Air Transport -- Small-World Phenomena in Communications Networks: A Cross-Atlantic Comparison -- The Diffusion of Cellular Phones: A Model for Italy and a Comparison with the United States -- Congestion Charging at Airports: Dealing with an Inherent Complexity -- Short- and Long-Term Reaction of European Airlines to Exogenous Demand Shifts -- Sustainable Transport and Policy Perspectives -- Taxes and the Environmental Impact of Private Car Use: Evidence from 68 Cities -- European Perspectives on a New Fiscal Framework for Transport -- Time and Travel.

The volume offers new insights into the modeling and analysis of transportation and telecommunication networks, utilizing perspectives from North America, Europe and other areas of the world. It probes interesting questions that can help us to understand the dynamics of our modern networked society: Do properties found in one network fail to exist in other networks and are there geographic factors that can explain this? Are there social, economic or cultural factors that contribute to differences in network properties and dynamics across regions? Can planning models such as those used for traffic forecasting or freight demand modeling be universally applied to networks situated in different regions, and how should this problem be dealt with when a system spans multiple spatial locations? What are the implications for policy analysis and decision-making? These issues are related to the need for a transatlantic synthesis of current transport methods and their applications. The book attempts to offer a prospectus in this respect, together with the emerging reflections on the desirable future evolution of research.