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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State of the art in work zone safety: A systematic review
March 2024
The ever-increasing number of accidents is detrimental to the sustainable objectives of work zones. Exploring the causes for work zone safety (WZS) issues, countermeasures, and effectiveness is significant...
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Research on key risk chain mining method for urban rail transit operations: A new approach to risk management
March 2024
•The H-Apriori association rule algorithm based on hazard degree weights is proposed.•A method for mining key risk chains in urban rail transit operation based on complex network theory is proposed.•Using...
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Exploring the operational benefits of transit signal priority: A microsimulation-based analysis
December 2023
This study evaluated the operational performance of Transit Signal Priority (TSP) using a microscopic simulation approach. The analysis was based on a 10-mile study corridor in South Florida. Two microscopic...
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A new model of friction brake efficiency of urban vehicles on unpaved roads using an analytical and numerical approach
December 2023
•The approach estimates the efficiency of disc braking systems of urban vehicles.•The proposed approach takes into account the irregularities of the road surface.•In addition to the surface irregularities,...
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The impact of the combination equilibrium of horizontal and sag-vertical curves on safety
December 2023
Safe and aesthetic interaction between horizontal and vertical alignment may significantly occur when they are combined or closed to each other resulting in safety problems. Previous researches have...
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Analysis of pedestrian-related crossing behavior at intersections: A Latent Dirichlet Allocation approach
December 2023
To study the intention behind pedestrian crossing behavior, this study extracts the trajectory data of vehicles and pedestrians from intersection videos. Based on the classic traffic conflict theory,...
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The potential of changing habitual car user travel modes: The case of Czech towns
December 2023
•The purpose of the research is to learn how to change car users’ behavior.•Using logistic regression and PCA, factors and attitudes affecting the travel mode choice were identified.•Case study of four...
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Exploring the need to model severity of single- and multi-occupant vehicles crashes separately: A case of crashes at highway-rail grade crossings
December 2023
In recent years, traffic safety researchers have attempted to separate single-vehicle and multi-vehicle crashes when analyzing crash severity, considering the significant differences in the mechanism...
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Influence of the human development index, motorcycle growth and policy intervention on road traffic fatalities – A case study of Vietnam
December 2023
Motorcycle ownership in Vietnam has increased exponentially during the last two decades. As a result, traffic congestion, emissions, and traffic safety have been on the rise. Of particular concern is...
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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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Traffic input module for mechanistic-empirical pavement design with weigh-in-motion data
December 2023
•Weigh-in-motion data provides large quantity of traffic information for pavement design.•Reliability of pavement design highly depends on the quality of truck traffic data.•The weigh-in-motion recorded...
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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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Exploring the endogenous effects among car dependency, work arrangement choice, and daily travel using the 2017 NHTS data
December 2023
The paper presents an effort in investigating the cause-effect relationships among telecommuting, car dependency, and trip making behavior. Data from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)...
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Bicyclist injury severity classification using a random parameter logit model
December 2023
Bicycling has been actively promoted as a clean and efficient mode of commute. Besides, due to the personal and societal benefits it provides, it has been adopted by many city dwellers for short-distance...
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A data mining approach for traffic accidents, pattern extraction and test scenario generation for autonomous vehicles
December 2023
To effectively fight against traffic accidents, it is of great importance to analyse and understand the conditions that are linked with accidents. Such an analysis can serve as the basis to (i) develop...
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Short-term and long-term aging effect of the rejuvenation on RAP binder and mixes for sustainable pavement construction
December 2023
•Physical and rheological properties of rejuvenated RAP and virgin binder compared.•Determination of optimum dosage range of the rejuvenator.•Performance evaluation rejuvenated RAP mixes....
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Application of text mining techniques to identify actual wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes in police reports
December 2023
•Identifying actual wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes from potential WWD crashes.•Implementing BERT model and five conventional classification algorithms.•Obtaining the best accuracy for BERT model compared...
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Advancing and Lagging Effects of Weather Conditions on Intercity Traffic Volume: A Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Available online 29 November 2023
With the rapid expansion of urban areas, intercity highways have become crucial for daily transportation. Traffic administrators and planners increasingly rely on evaluating highway traffic volume....
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Real-time risk assessment of aircraft landing based on finite element-virtual prototype-machine learning co-simulation on wet runways
Available online 28 November 2023
The safety of aircraft landing on wet runways is of great importance in runway risk management. In order to ensure landing safety on wet runways, real-time risk warning is required. This paper proposes...
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A State-of-the-art survey of deep learning models for automated pavement crack segmentation
Available online 22 November 2023
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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Train rescheduling and platforming in large high-speed railway stations
Available online 8 November 2023
To deal with train delays in large high-speed railway stations, a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MO-MINLP) optimization model was proposed. The model used the arrival time, departure...
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Injury severity of drowsy drivers involved in single vehicle crashes: Accounting for temporal instability and unobserved heterogeneity
Available online 7 November 2023
Drowsy driving has received comparatively less attention in traffic safety literature when compared to other safety issues, despite its devastating impact on society in terms of human lives lost and...
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Comparing the vibrational behaviour of e-kick scooters and e-bikes: Evidence from Italy
Available online 4 November 2023
E-kick scooters are currently among the most popular emerging electric-powered Personal micro–Mobility Vehicles (e-PMVs) and have recently been equated to e-bikes. However, even if the dynamic behaviour...
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Analysis of traffic conflicts with right-turning vehicles at unsignalized intersections in suburban areas
Available online 27 October 2023
Right-turn collisions at intersections are one of the most dominant crash types in suburban areas, especially at unsignalized intersections. There is, however, a lack of comprehensive research on the...
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