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  1. Road accidents have come to be considered a major public health problem worldwide. The aim of many studies is therefore to identify the main factors contributing to the severity of crashes.

    Authors: Addi Ait-Mlouk, Fatima Gharnati and Tarik Agouti
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:40
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  2. Passenger car occupancy has been falling for years. Partly empty vehicles on our road networks decrease passenger transport sustainability but also contain an opportunity for freight transport. Within Crowd logis...

    Authors: Heleen Buldeo Rai, Sara Verlinde, Jan Merckx and Cathy Macharis
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:39
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  3. An important requirement for knowledge infrastructures in smart cities is the continuous updating of location-based information. Protocols for dynamic location referencing like e.g. OpenLR or AGORA-C tackle th...

    Authors: Rüdiger Ebendt and Louis Calvin Touko Tcheumadjeu
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:38
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  4. We are interested in what policy insights can be transferred from EU countries that have been most successful in introducing EVs to those that are debating policy options. As we use a model to explore this, we...

    Authors: Gillian Harrison and Christian Thiel
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:37
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  6. In the process of nowadays efficiency evaluation of any mode of transportation, sustainability results are the most important factor. In regard to railway sustainability, Train Control Information Systems (TCI...

    Authors: Evelin Krmac and Boban Djordjević
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:35
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  9. This paper proposes an innovative approach to decision-making processes for urban freight planning that could easily be transferred across cities while capable of jointly taking into account: (1) all the conce...

    Authors: Valerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci and Michela Le Pira
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:32
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  10. The overall aim of this study is to compare day-time driving with night-time driving looking at line crossings during self-reported sleepiness and long blinks. The hypothesis is that high levels of self-report...

    Authors: Anna Anund, Carina Fors and Christer Ahlstrom
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:31
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  11. European Commission has promoted actions and policies with the aim of reducing the negative impacts on traffic and environment caused by city logistics. One increasingly popular measure is the use of cargo bik...

    Authors: Sandra Melo and Patrícia Baptista
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:30
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  14. As part of the overall goal of carbon emissions reduction, European cities are expected to encourage the electrification of urban transport. In order to prepare themselves to welcome the increased number of el...

    Authors: Dimitrios Efthymiou, Katerina Chrysostomou, Maria Morfoulaki and Georgia Aifantopoulou
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:27
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  15. Using a three-week household activity-travel survey, this paper explores the relationship between individuals’ self-reported physical, mental and social health conditions and their time allocation for differen...

    Authors: Yusak O. Susilo and Chengxi Liu
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:26
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  18. The taxi industry has boomed over the years, both in street-hail and dispatch market. However, few studies focus on comprehensive perspectives, which make decisions such as implementing regulative or incentive...

    Authors: Yong Zhang, Miner Zhong and Yunjian Jiang
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:23
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  19. This paper presents some of the work conducted in FP7 VRUITS project to draw a set of general recommendations for actions at the EU level aiming to enhance the deployment of ITS systems directed to improve the...

    Authors: Dick Mans, Ioannis Giannelos, Ricardo van Breemen, Menzo Rood, Anne Silla, Pirkko Rämä, Johan Scholliers, Oscar Martin Perez and Kerry Malone
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:22
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  20. This paper describes the modification and development of methodologies to assess the impacts of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications for Vulnerable Road users (VRUs) in the domains of safety, mobil...

    Authors: Kerry Malone, Anne Silla, Charlotta Johanssen and Daniel Bell
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:21
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  22. The accessibility of a certain place can evolve either as the direct result of transport changes or as a consequence of the spatial redistribution of economic activities. These two factors are often indistingu...

    Authors: Ana Condeço-Melhorado, José Luis Zofío and Panayotis Christidis
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:19
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  23. In gap-acceptance theory the critical and the follow-up headways have a significant role in determining roundabout entry capacities which in turn depend on circulating flow rates under a specified arrival head...

    Authors: Orazio Giuffrè, Anna Granà and Maria Luisa Tumminello
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:18
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  24. Road lighting illuminates road surface and surrounding areas of objects on a road, while car headlights illuminate vertical objects on a road. The goal of the study was to investigate the interaction between r...

    Authors: Sanaz Bozorg Chenani, Matti T. Vaaja, Matti Kurkela, Iisakki Kosonen and Tapio Luttinen
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:17
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  25. The introduction of novel fuel and propulsion technologies, such as battery, (plug-in) hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles, and the need to combat the exhaust emission of local and global pollutants from th...

    Authors: Vegard Østli, Lasse Fridstrøm, Kjell Werner Johansen and Yin-Yen Tseng
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:16
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  26. This paper describes the development of an architecture for the integration of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), i.e. pedestrians, cyclists and powered two-wheelers (PTWs) in Cooperative ITS (C-ITS) systems, and t...

    Authors: Johan Scholliers, Marcel van Sambeek and Kees Moerman
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:15
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  27. The aim was to examine attitudes among older adults in Sweden as regards a possible legislation for medical assessment at license renewal depending on their health status (vision and hearing) and gender.

    Authors: Birgitta Thorslund, Niklas Strand and Tania Dukic Willstrand
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:14
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  28. This paper presents a “CPN/B method” based process for railway systems safety analysis. Achieving interoperability through the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS/ETCS) is facing difficulties in rai...

    Authors: Zakaryae Boudi, Rahma Ben-Ayed, El Miloudi El Koursi, Simon Collart-Dutilleul, Thomas Nolasco and Mohamed Haloua
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:13
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  31. Using intermodal transportation is vital for the delivery of relief supplies when single mode alternative becomes unusable or infeasible. The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of intermodal fre...

    Authors: Mustafa Alp Ertem, Melike İşbilir and Ayşenur Şahin Arslan
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:10
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  32. Within the field of goods vehicles mobility, the paper points out the road safety that has impacts on both social and economic sustainability spheres. The contribution of goods vehicles is investigated and the...

    Authors: Francesco Russo and Antonio Comi
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:9
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  33. This paper builds our knowledge of truck driver behaviour in and experience of automated truck platooning, focusing on the effect of partially and fully automated truck platoons on driver workload, trust, acce...

    Authors: Magnus Hjälmdahl, Stas Krupenia and Birgitta Thorslund
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:8
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  34. This paper develops recommendations which would enable national governments to support individual cities in their development of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. It draws on the work of an Advisory Group of t...

    Authors: Anthony May, Susanne Boehler-Baedeker, Laura Delgado, Thomas Durlin, Mircea Enache and Jan-Willem van der Pas
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:7
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  36. First aid is a factor that reduces damage to health and loss of life in traffic accidents. It is therefore necessary to make even the lay population ready to give at least basic first aid. Czech driving school...

    Authors: Veronika Kureckova, Vit Gabrhel, Petr Zamecnik, Pavel Rezac, Ales Zaoral and Jan Hobl
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2017 9:5
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  37. In order to explore the effect of curb parking on dynamic traffic and formulate some reasonable and effective traffic management measures, the effects on capacity and traffic safety are studied.

    Authors: Y . Cao, Z. Z. Yang and Z. Y. Zuo
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 9:4
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  38. The main aim of this study is to identify factors behind Finland having a poorer road traffic accident record compared to Sweden. Another aim is to study whether there are any benefits to using real disaggrega...

    Authors: Harri Peltola and Juha Luoma
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 9:3
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  42. Swiss Split is a rail service in Switzerland which distributes containers via conventional shunting yards directly from intermodal terminals to the final recipients’ sidings by rail. Today’s Swiss Split servic...

    Authors: Dirk Bruckmann, Patrik Dober, Albert Mancera, Irmhild Saabel and Ulrich Weidmann
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 8:28
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  45. In the Netherlands, the bicycle plays an important in station access and, to a lesser extent, in station egress. There is however fairly little knowledge in the potential effects of bicycle-train integration p...

    Authors: Karst T. Geurs, Lissy La Paix and Sander Van Weperen
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 8:25
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  46. The paper studies the progressive occupancy of parking capacity along the street by candidate users, under the user equilibrium paradigm. The situation depicted typically applies to a parking peak period.

    Authors: Natalia Kotelnikova and Fabien Leurent
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 8:24
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  47. This paper reviews and adapts the methodology “Guide on the methodology for carrying out cost-benefit analysis” prepared by the European Commission (EC). It is specifically tailored to the assessment of an inn...

    Authors: Giuseppe Siciliano, Francesco Barontini, Dewan Md Zahurul Islam, Thomas H. Zunder, Stefan Mahler and Ilaria Grossoni
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 8:23
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  48. Various regulatory and fiscal policy instruments are in force to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases and local pollutants emitted by private cars. The incentives operate primarily—or exclusively—on the newes...

    Authors: Lasse Fridstrøm, Vegard Østli and Kjell Werner Johansen
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 8:22
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  50. Depending on the calibration of their cognitive abilities, some older drivers (ODs) might stop driving prematurely (under-estimators, UEs) and others could expose themselves to risky situations (over-estimator...

    Authors: Marion Hay, Nicolas Adam, Marie-Laure Bocca and Catherine Gabaude
    Citation: European Transport Research Review 2016 8:20
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