Travel Time Reliability and Quality Assessment of a Route Set through Route Aggregation

Conventional travel time reliability assessment focuses either on reliability on route level or the determination of the valuation of reliability in route choice. However, a connection between origin and destination usually consists of multiple routes, thereby providing the option to choose. This study assesses the reliability and quality of the...

The provisioning of digital leased lines in an SDH-based transport network

The time between request and realization of private or leased lines (i.e. provisioning time) has traditionally been very long (i.e. months). To a large extent, this has to do with the inflexibility of the "conventional" transport network. With the availability of Digital Cross-connect Systems (DCS) and other network products based on the...