An approach of identifying and assessing the factors influencing traffic crashes: A combination of Exploratory Factor Analysis and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process
Available online 23 January 2025
Preventing traffic accidents is a top priority worldwide, considering its extensive negative impact on people’s physical and mental health, the economy, and government expenditure. This research aims...
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Short-term passenger flow prediction of urban rail transit on Bayesian Optimization- Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Causal Temporal Pattern Attention
Available online 23 January 2025
Accurate and reliable short-term passenger flow prediction is crucial for optimizing operational organization and enhancing intelligent management in urban rail transit. However, passenger flow remains...
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Development of an unsupervised 3D LiDAR-based methodology for automated safety monitoring of railway facilities
Available online 23 January 2025
Railway safety (e.g., at grade crossings, platforms, or rail tracks) is a primary concern for transportation authorities. Unfortunately, preventable railway collisions claim the lives of hundreds annually,...
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Optimal seat occupancy rate of customized bus services considering in-vehicle infection risk cost during public health emergencies
Available online 23 January 2025
Customized bus (CB), offering personalized routes and reserved seat arrangements, meets the diverse travel needs of passengers. However, the usage of public transit drops significantly during public...
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Construction of airport digital runway based on in-situ sensing data
Available online 22 January 2025
Performance evaluation of facilities in flight area is a key factor affects the safety of airport, and real-time monitoring of the infrastructures and reporting the performance of the airport runway...
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Integrating acoustic-based risk quantification for modeling one-to-one dynamic pedestrian-vehicle interactions at non-signalized crosswalks using empirical data
Available online 20 January 2025
•Developed a novel model to quantify perceived risk in pedestrian-vehicle interactions.•Identified key risk thresholds to improve autonomous driving decisions.•Revealed four strategic behaviors in pedestrian-vehicle...
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Characterization of long-term field aging: differential impact on rheological, chemical, and morphological properties of binders across the lanes of flexible pavement
Available online 16 January 2025
Field aging is a complicated process wherein the binder ages inevitably due to the synergic effect of temperature, humidity, pressure, UV rays and oxidation that occur in the field and has a significant...
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Measurement errors propagation laws and schemes comparative study in sensor location problem based on turning ratios
Available online 16 January 2025
The Sensor Location Flow-Observability Problem is to identify the optimal set of observed links in a traffic network where sensors should be installed, ensuring that unobserved link flows can be uniquely...
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Potential of a new warm asphalt mix by using soft asphalt and rock asphalt compound
Available online 16 January 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...
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A YOLO-based network with dynamic feature pyramid for multi-scale bridge surface defect detection
Available online 16 January 2025
Bridge surface defect detection is critical to guaranteeing transportation safety and maintenance planning. With the innovation of image acquisition technology and computer vision science, deep learning...
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Examining fine-grained commuting CO2 emission using cellular signaling data: Insights from Shanghai, China
Available online 6 January 2025
Quantifying carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from commuting and the impact of investigating built environment are essential for urban traffic-related emission reduction. This study utilizes more than...
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Roles and functions of asphalt sub-ballast in the modern maintenance of the European railways
Available online 6 January 2025
The railway network is increasingly becoming central to the socio-economic development and the decarbonisation of transport, supporting its growth in compliance with the emission reduction targets set...
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Conflict extraction and characteristics analysis at signalized intersections using trajectory data
Available online 6 January 2025
Potential safety problems at signalized intersections can be recognized most effectively by identifying serious traffic conflict events and analyzing them in different scenarios. However, most studies...
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Pedestrian crossing behaviors at signalized intersections in Utah: Factors affecting spatial and temporal violations
Available online 6 January 2025
•Investigated temporal and spatial patterns of pedestrian signal violations.•Used multilevel regression models on 5,589 crossings at 47 sites for analysis.•Temporal analysis: Violations likely in high...
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Lane number and its impact on commercial motor vehicle crash safety: An econometric perspective
December 2024
This research investigates the intricate relationship between the number of lanes on highways and injury severities sustained by commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers. Many studies have addressed crash...
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Analysis of traffic conflicts with right-turning vehicles at unsignalized intersections in suburban areas
December 2024
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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An empirical study on the stochastic long-term travel demands of a large-scale metro network
December 2024
The widely-existed uncertainty of origin–destination (OD) demand in transportation networks has attracted extensive attention. Most characterizations or models of stochastic OD demands in networks assume...
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Data-driven statewide prioritization of corridors for signal retiming projects
December 2024
While emerging technologies has substantially improved the way traffic signals operated, most agencies still rely on the traditional approach of retiming, which is typically initiated by “trigger” events...
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Analysis on the synergistic variation of soil freezing and pile foundation bearing capacity in permafrost regions
December 2024
The construction of bored piles in permafrost regions disturbs the thermal stability of frozen soil, leading to decreased early bearing capacity of the pile foundation. As the permafrost ground temperature...
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Temporal assessment of emission inventory model for Indian heavy commercial vehicle segment: A top-down approach
December 2024
Heavy commercial vehicles (HCVs) are pivotal to India's economy, but are also significant sources of air pollution. To address this issue, the Indian government implemented Bharat stage VI (BS-VI) emission...
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Performance evaluation of Bailey method used in asphalt mixtures containing natural river sands
December 2024
This study aims to investigate the efficiency of the Bailey method when natural sand is included in the mix at two coarseness levels of aggregate gradations: fine-graded (FG) and coarse-graided (CG),...
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Comparing the vibrational behavior of e-kick scooters and e-bikes: Evidence from Italy
December 2024
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 behavior...
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Effective lane width for cars considering lateral oscillation characteristics based on high-precision field data
December 2024
The cross-sectional width of highways is a major factor that affects the construction cost of engineering projects. With the increasing demand for intensive highway construction, research on dedicated...
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Discovering latent themes in aviation safety reports using text mining and network analytics
December 2024
Aviation accidents, referring to unexpected and undesirable events involving aircraft, often cause great damage to property and human life. Learning from historical accidents is pivotal for improving...
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Neural network surrogate models for aerodynamic analysis in truck platoons: Implications on autonomous freight delivery
December 2024
•Proposed a generalized surrogate model for different truck platoon configurations.•Fuel saving is up to 10% autonomous truck platooning.•Compared autonomous truck delivery vs. conventional trucking...
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