Currently, society has become increasingly dependent on their transport systems
to support a wide variety of activities ranging from commuting, to supplying
energy needs, to distributing parts between factories. A quite frequent challenge
is to develop transport systems that satisfy mobility needs as well as support
economic development. Moreover, it became quite crucial for transportation in
general to consider ecological and social issues. Transportation itself is a major
part of our day-to-day routine in order to overcome space which is shaped by a
great variety of human and physical constraints. The most common ones are
time, distance, administrative divisions and/or topography. The goal of
transportation is thus to transform the geographical attributes of freight, people or
information, from an origin to a destination conferring them an added value in the
process. In doing so, social, ecological and obviously economic aspects of
transportation have to be considered