Potential of a new warm asphalt mix by using soft asphalt and rock asphalt compound
December 2025
Warm mix asphalt (WMA) has gained significant attention in the asphalt industry, traditionally dominated by Hot mix asphalt (HMA), due to its advantages in reducing energy consumption and lowering carbon...
Understanding customer preferences for autonomous delivery vehicles in instant delivery: exploring the impact of delivery and personal attributes
December 2025
•Instant delivery services face several challenges, including high labor costs, low efficiency, and courier accidents.•Despite the increasing popularity of ADVs, there is a paucity of research on customer...
Event-triggered prescribed-time control for vehicular platoon systems with unknown disturbances
December 2025
An event-triggered prescribed-time control scheme is proposed for vehicular platoon systems (VPSs) subject to parameter uncertainties, unknown external disturbances, and actuator saturation. By utilizing...
Learning to search for parking like a human: a deep inverse reinforcement learning approach
December 2025
•Maximum entropy-based DIRL for learning parking search behavior.•High-fidelity simulation platform with 987 trajectories from Unity3D.•Hybrid simulation system integrating DIRL and traditional traffic...
Temporal dynamics of pedestrian injury severity: a seasonally constrained random parameters approach
December 2025
Pedestrians are the most at-risk group in the transportation system, experiencing a troubling and persistent rise in both the frequency and proportion of fatalities over the past decade. In 2022, pedestrian...
First train schedule optimization for metro systems considering minimum adjustment cost for special event scenarios
December 2025
During special events, some metro lines and stations may alter their first train schedules to an earlier time, while others remain unchanged. These adjustments can result in longer transfer waiting...
Collective accessibility impacts of public transport automation on rural areas: the case study of Mühlwald, South Tyrol
December 2025
Collective autonomous vehicles (AVs) might change the accessibility of rural areas in the following decades. For instance, the operating cost savings triggered by automation could allow upgrading traditional...
Joint optimization of metro train timetable and stopping plan for the first service period: an integrated energy-efficient and time-saving model
December 2025
This paper addresses the energy conservation challenge in metro systems during the first service period, characterized by large train headways and low passenger demands. A novel train timetabling method...
An enhanced dynamic programming approach to the deterministic time-dependent lot-sizing problem under shared warehousing
Available online 23 December 2025
The lot-sizing problem for one-to-one distribution with time-dependent demand has long been studied in logistics at the operational level. Conventionally, the heuristic-based forward dynamic programming...
How does home-based teleworking reshape commuting and activity participation? An empirical study in Shanghai using machine learning
Available online 17 December 2025
Despite the growing adoption of teleworking, empirical studies remain limited in developing nations, including China. However, the rapid rise of teleworking, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, highlights...
Application of hybrid fiber reinforced polymer concrete in railway sleepers: a perspective to rebar-free concrete sleeper
Available online 5 December 2025
Traditional concrete railway sleepers reinforced with prestressed steel rebar face durability challenges, including corrosion, thermal expansion, and chloride attack. This study explores hybrid fiber-reinforced...
Using machine learning to investigate user behaviour of Tyne and Wear Metro
Available online 3 December 2025
This study investigates the factors influencing passenger satisfaction on the Tyne and Wear Metro system, a key public transportation network in North East England. The research explores how various...
Fuzzy adaptive zoning algorithm: integrating LiDAR and fuzzy logic for enhanced autonomous electric vehicle navigation in controlled spaces
Available online 22 October 2025
•FAZA with LiDAR enables precise autonomous navigation in confined spaces through fuzzy logic.•Zone-based architecture achieves perfect accuracy in 96 test scenarios with LiDAR VLP-16.•Hybrid membership...
Improved model for pavement performance prediction based on recurrent neural network using LTPP database
September 2025
Accurate pavement performance prediction plays a critical role in formulating maintenance and repair strategies for transportation departments, enabling the achievement of better pavement performance...
Nighttime agglomerate fog event detection considering car light glare based on video
September 2025
Agglomerate fog event poses more serious threat than normal foggy weather to expressway traffic safety, due to its localized nature and suddenly uneven formation. However, vision-based fog detection...
Identifying the key factors of intermodal travel using interpretative ensemble learning
September 2025
•Development of a novel interpretability-based ensemble learning model to identify key factors affecting intermodal travel.•Differences in feature interpretability between the developed model and the...
Collaborative rescheduling of train timetables to relieve passenger congestions in an urban rail transit network: a rolling horizon approach
September 2025
At certain urban rail transit (URT) stations, large events, emergencies, or holidays often cause a rapid surge in passenger flow, referred to as large passenger flow (LPF) events. The passenger congestion...
Evaluating the potential for micromobility in South Florida through a stated preference survey
September 2025
This paper aims aimed at evaluating the potential for micromobility in South Florida. The influential factors motivating users to switch to micromobility modes are investigated, utilizing a stated preference...
Hierarchical dynamic modeling for highway network real-time risk forecasting with digitalized vehicle data
September 2025
In traffic safety management, identifying high-risk areas prone to traffic crashes is crucial. Road authorities focus on these high-risk segments to implement strategies that mitigate the impact of...
Non-linear relationship between built environment and active travel: a hybrid model considering spatial heterogeneity
September 2025
Exploring the mechanisms between the built environment and active travel is crucial for promoting green transportation and fostering the sustainable development of cities. Existing literature focuses...
Evaluating the role of AI and empirical models for predicting regional economic growth and transportation dynamics: an application of advanced AI approaches
September 2025
The advent of the artificial intelligence (AI) age offers substantial potentials for predicting regional gross domestic product (GDP) growth and transportation dynamics. This article presents an in-depth...
Commercial adaptive cruise control (ACC) and capacity drop at freeway bottlenecks
September 2025
Vehicle automation has already become commercially available. Today’s mainstream vehicles are equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC) to automate longitudinal car-following (CF). However, ACC’s...
Investigation and optimization of short-term aging test conditions for asphalt binders
September 2025
The existing short-term aging test methods have disadvantages such as not being suitable for high viscosity modified asphalt, independent aging degree, and poor testing convenience. Therefore, this...
Geometric design optimization of speed tables at urban arterials using UAV assistance
September 2025
One of the primary risk factors at junctions on urban roads is vehicle speed. To curb over-speeding and road crashes at intersections, traffic calming measures are introduced. Current research aims...
Freeway merging trajectory prediction for automated vehicles using naturalistic driving data
September 2025
Due to the speed difference and the complex interaction between merging and through-lane vehicles at freeway merging sections, crashes involving both human drivers and automated vehicles (AVs) persist....