Indian traffic sign detection and recognition using deep learning
September 2023
•Deep learning based model named Refined Mask R-CNN (RMR-CNN).•Customized Indian Traffic sign dataset with 6480 images.•Pre-processing methods included to increase the efficiency of the model.•Accuracy...
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The economic burden of road traffic accidents and injuries: A small island perspective
Available online 7 March 2024
The existing evidence on the economic burden of road accidents on GDP focused mainly on developed countries. This paper addresses an important gap in the literature by investigating into the impact...
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In-situ resources for infrastructure construction on Mars: A review
March 2022
•Possible in-situ resources for infrastructure construction on Mars were proposed.•Feasibility of in-situ energy exploitation and intelligent construction was proposed.•The Martian soil, basalt and...
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Estimation of Passenger Car Unit on urban roads: A literature review
September 2021
•This paper provides an idea of the status of PCU related research.•It also extends a collective knowledge of how PCU varies with the change in traffic and other conditions.•The present paper helps...
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A study on airlines’ responses and customer satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic
December 2023
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak has significantly impacted the airline industry worldwide. However, limited studies have systematically investigated the airlines' responses and customer...
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Factors and incentives that affect electric vehicle adoption in Greece
December 2023
•Consumer intentions to purchase and also pay extra for an EV were analyzed.•Discrete choice models are developed to examine the factors that affect the adoption of EVs.•Provision of financial incentives...
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Understanding the effects of structural factors and traffic loading on flexible pavement performance
March 2023
Pavement damage increases rapidly with vehicle loads. The deterioration in pavements over time is caused by various factors but traffic loading plays a significant role in the consumption of pavement...
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Transport accessibility for wheelchair users: A qualitative analysis of inclusion and health
June 2019
Using the case of wheelchair users who choose to use public transport in London, this paper highlights the experiences of a marginalized group within infrastructure to investigate how transport impacts...
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Origin-destination inference in public transportation systems: A comprehensive review
March 2023
Origin-destination (OD) modeling facilitates effective demand-responsive public transportation planning in order to meet emergent needs. Given recent advances in transit information and personal communications...
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Truck acceleration behavior study and acceleration lane length recommendations for metered on-ramps
October 2016
This paper investigated the actual truck acceleration capability at metered on-ramps. Truck acceleration performance data were collected through a video-based data collection method. A piecewise constant...
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Advancements, prospects, and impacts of automated driving systems
September 2017
Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in automated driving systems (ADS). Given the current momentum and progress, ADS can be expected to continue to advance and a variety of ADS...
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Investigating e-grocery shopping behavior and its travel effect
March 2024
Since the adoption rate of e-grocery skyrocketed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic due to the influx of first-time e-grocery shoppers, grocery shopping behavior has been evolving and the travel effects...
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Optimizing roads for sustainability: Inverted pavement design with life cycle cost analysis and carbon footprint estimation
Available online 24 April 2024
Inverted pavements have proven performance across the world and there is a need to optimize the layer thickness and material properties of the pavement addressing the critical failures in the Mechanistic-Empirical...
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Airline efficiency and environmental impacts – Data envelopment analysis
June 2023
Airline efficiency has been a research interest for decades. While early airline efficiency research focused primarily on revenue generation and profitability, growing airline social responsibility...
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Emerging technologies and policies for carbon–neutral transportation
March 2023
Many countries and regions across the world have been actively implementing their commitments to achieve carbon neutrality in response to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement...
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Measurement model of passengers’ expectations of airport service quality
December 2021
•This empirical study of airport quality factors was conducted in Thailand.•Confirmatory factor analysis was used to develop a model of passengers’ service quality expectations.•The analysis identified...
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Smartphone sensing for understanding driving behavior: Current practice and challenges
September 2021
•Understanding of driving behavior based on smartphone data is the core of the paper.•An inclusive 4-step methodological framework is established for driving analytics.•The 4 steps are: Data collection,...
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A state-of-the-art survey of deep learning models for automated pavement crack segmentation
March 2024
Survey of road cracks in a timely, complete, and accurate way is pivotal to pavement maintenance planning. Motivated by the increasingly heavy task of identifying cracks, researchers have developed...
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An integrated approach for optimizing location-inventory and location-inventory-routing problem for perishable products
March 2023
The grocery market, especially the perishable product market is under amazing developments in China, accounting for half of overall food expenditure. However, the supply chain of perishable products...
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Inland Waterway Transportation (IWT) in Ghana: A case study of Volta Lake Transport
March 2021
Water bodies have been an amazing mode of transport for carrying people and/or goods within and across regional, national and continental borders. Hitherto, a lot of countries still depend on inland...
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Application of permeable pavements in highways for stormwater runoff management and pollution prevention: California research experiences
December 2019
In the future, permeable pavements including the full depth permeable pavement (FDPP) will be part of an integrated sustainable transportation program. When designed properly, FDPP can be used as an...
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Dynamic adaptive vehicle re-routing strategy for traffic congestion mitigation of grid network
June 2024
•A kSP-inspired re-routing algorithm is proposed to mitigate traffic congestion.•A grid traffic network model is developed imitating actual traffic events.•This re-routing algorithm is simulated and...
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Pavement distress detection using convolutional neural network (CNN): A case study in Montreal, Canada
June 2022
•Montreal Pavement Dataset includes four distress types and marking, clean images.•Model with Batch Normalization and lower rate of Dropout has the best performance.•The Convolutional Neural Network...
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Injury severity analysis of rural vehicle crashes involving familiar and unfamiliar drivers
March 2024
Familiar and unfamiliar drivers may exhibit different behaviours in response to the road environment. Overall familiarity with the road environment is a human factor believed to play a role in road...
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Simulation study on effect of permeable pavement on reducing flood risk of urban runoff
December 2019
Permeable pavement is part of the low impact development (LID) measurement, which can decrease urban surface runoff coefficient and flood peak flow. In this paper, a two-way, six-lane road in Nanjing...
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