Integrating simulation and business intelligence analyses for tactical and strategic decisions in transportation systems

摘要

Transportation planners, analysts and decision-makers usually make use of simulationtools in order to accurately predict the performance of new practices and policies before theirimplementation. Additionally, most of them, recently introduced new auxiliary BusinessIntelligence decision support tools in order to transform their available huge amount of realoperating data into timely and accurate information for their decisions.Although both of those types of automated decision support are valuable, very fewattempts were already made by researchers to integrate them into a unified tool.This paper proposes a conceptual framework for a decision support system thatintegrates both of these technologies, simulation and Business Intelligence, in order to enhancethe overall practical interest for its usage by taking advantage of the foreseen synergy of theintegration.The paper discusses the potential interest of the proposed integration, and identifies aset of questions that can then be answered with effectiveness and more efficiently than before.