Articles

Rethinking transport – towards clean and inclusive mobility (Highlights of the 2020 Transport Research Arena conference)

Authors: Miloš N. Mladenović, Pekka Leviäkangas, Claudio Roncoli and Saara Hänninen

Examining gender differences of social media use for activity planning and travel choices

The explosive growth of social media has rendered them powerful communication channels. User generated content is an important source of inspiration and influence among web friends, it generates new activities...

Authors: Maria Karatsoli and Eftihia Nathanail

Origin-destination matrix estimation with a conditionally binomial model

A doubly stochastic, conditionally binomial model is proposed to describe volumes of vehicular origin-destination flows in regular vehicular traffic, such as morning rush hours. The statistical properties of t...

Authors: Pirkko Kuusela, Ilkka Norros, Jorma Kilpi and Tomi Räty

Exploring city propensity for the market success of micro-electric vehicles

As a subset of increasing EV growth and micro-mobility technology trends, micro-electric vehicles (micro-EVs) have the potential to address many transport system issues. Little research quantifies micro-EV pot...

Authors: Ilona Loustric and Melinda Matyas

Vehicle energy savings by optimizing road speed-sectioning

In a context of decreasing resources and of climate change, lowering road vehicles consumption is a key point to meet CO₂ reduction requirements. In addition to car technological advances, eco-driving is part of ...

Authors: Alex Coiret, Emir Deljanin and Pierre-Olivier Vandanjon

Freight distribution in urban areas: a method to select the most important loading and unloading areas and a survey tool to investigate related demand patterns

Cities all around the world are observing increasing levels of urban freight activities owing to the growth of internet shopping combined to the traditional distribution to shops, creating additional problems ...

Authors: Marco Diana, Miriam Pirra and Andree Woodcock

Learning from the real practices of users of a smart carpooling app

This paper explores the real practices of users of a smart carpooling application that learns their mobility habits and predicts their future trips to propose relevant matches.

Authors: Sonia Adelé and Corinne Dionisio

Between fairness, welfare and feasibility: an approach for applying different distributive principles in transport evaluation

For assessing the desirability and feasibility of major transport projects decision makers often recur to ex-ante evaluation methods such as cost-benefit analysis or multi-criteria analysis. In these methods p...

Authors: Geert te Boveldt, Imre Keseru and Cathy Macharis

Analyzing passenger and freight vehicle movements from automatic-Number plate recognition camera data

Modern urban-transport planning requires evidence-based insights into current transport flows to better understand the needs and impacts of policymaking. Urban transport includes passenger and freight vehicles...

Authors: Sheida Hadavi, Heleen Buldeo Rai, Sara Verlinde, He Huang, Cathy Macharis and Tias Guns

Identifying user classes for shared and automated mobility services

New forms of shared mobility such as free-floating car-sharing services and shared automated vehicles have the potential to change urban travel behaviour. In this paper, we identify potential user classes for ...

Authors: Konstanze Winter, Oded Cats, Karel Martens and Bart van Arem

Variation of performance, of self-reported alertness and effort as a function of low doses of alcohol and of driving experience

Alcohol is the most frequent detected substance in the automobile fatal crashes but its precise mode of action on mental state is not always clear, notably when combined with lack of driving experience. The ai...

Authors: Catherine Berthelon and Edith Galy

Multimodal warning design for take-over request in conditionally automated driving

Humans are required to respond to a vehicle’s request to take-over anytime even when they are not responsible for monitoring driving environments in automated driving, e.g., a SAE level-3 vehicle. Thus, a safe...

Authors: Hanna Yun and Ji Hyun Yang

How does road marking in horizontal curves influence driving behaviour?

Given the inconsistent application of various road markings on Czech rural roads, there is a question “How does road marking in horizontal curves influence driving behaviour?” The study objective was to assess...

Authors: Pavel Havránek, Robert Zůvala, Jakub Špaňhel, Adam Herout, Veronika Valentová and Jiří Ambros

Satisfaction with general functionality and safety of travel in relation to residential environment and satisfaction with transport modes

The objective of this paper is to study 1) do people living in certain residential environments express more dissatisfaction with general functionality and safety of travel, 2) is dissatisfaction with general ...

Authors: Hanne Tiikkaja, Heikki Liimatainen and Markus Pöllänen

Welfare consequences of request stops at transport services with low demand

Demand-responsive transport is an alternative to fixed-route, fixed-scheduled transport services in low-demand areas.

Authors: Finn Jørgensen and Gisle Solvoll

The role of numerical tests in assessing road restraint system functionality

Key to understanding the needs and building road infrastructure management tools to prevent and mitigate run-off-road accidents is to identify hazards and their sources which are a result of wrong design, cons...

Authors: Marcin Budzynski, Kazimierz Jamroz, Krzysztof Wilde, Wojciech Witkowski, Lukasz Jelinski and Dawid Bruski

Prevalence and factors associated with pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries: case Finland

The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries (MAIS3+) in traffic, and to identify differences in the factors associated with the injury severities. The study...

Authors: Fanny Malin, Anne Silla and Miloš N. Mladenović

Correction to: Improving inbound logistic planning for large-scale real-world routing problems: a novel ant-colony simulation-based optimization

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Giovanni Calabrò, Vincenza Torrisi, Giuseppe Inturri and Matteo Ignaccolo

What are the factors and needs promoting mobility-as-a-service? Findings from the Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS)

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a service that supports customers’ transportation needs by providing information and ticketing for a multitude of transport modes in one interface; thus, buy potentially fosteri...

Authors: Raphael Hoerler, Anna Stünzi, Anthony Patt and Andrea Del Duce

User rating and acceptance of attention-adaptive driver safety systems

Current statistics show that distraction is a central cause of traffic accidents. Safety systems with distance control currently available on the market have great potential for preventing accidents and signif...

Authors: Betina Weber, Manfred Dangelmaier, Frederik Diederichs and Dieter Spath

Application of Self-Organizing Maps on Time Series Data for identifying interpretable Driving Manoeuvres

Understanding the usage of a product is essential for any manufacturer in particular for further development. Driving style of the driver is a significant factor in the usage of a city bus. This work proposes ...

Authors: Sivakkumaran Lakshminarayanan

Correction to: The impact of driving homogeneity due to automation and cooperation of vehicles on uphill freeway sections

In the original publication of this article [1], the whole Abstract section is revised as below. This is an error caused during the production stage.

Authors: Michail Makridis, Ludovic Leclercq, Konstantinos Mattas and Biagio Ciuffo

Evaluating the performance of the vessel train concept

To improve safety and address current employment challenges in the waterborne transport sector, the VT concept is developed. The VT is a vessel platooning concept that is semi-autonomous. The VT is composed by...

Authors: Hilde Meersman, Eleni Moschouli, Loghman NanwayBoukani, Christa Sys, Edwin van Hassel, Thierry Vanelslander and Eddy Van de Voorde

Enabling a green just-in-time navigation through stakeholder collaboration

The shipping industry has grown spectacularly during the last 50 years transporting nowadays, approximately, the 80–90% of goods worldwide. However, maritime transport remains a highly inefficient industry. On...

Authors: Jordi Arjona Aroca, José Andrés Giménez Maldonado, Gabriel Ferrús Clari, Nuria Alonso i García, Lucía Calabria and Jorge Lara

Improving inbound logistic planning for large-scale real-world routing problems: a novel ant-colony simulation-based optimization

This paper presents the first results of an agent-based model aimed at solving a Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) for inbound logistics using a novel Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm, develope...

Authors: Giovanni Calabrò, Vincenza Torrisi, Giuseppe Inturri and Matteo Ignaccolo

Which factors affect willingness-to-pay for automated vehicle services? Evidence from public road deployment in Stockholm, Sweden

Travel demand and travel satisfaction of a transport service are affected by user perceptions of the service quality attributes, and such perceptions should be included in studying user willingness-to-pay (WTP...

Authors: Pei Nen Esther Chee, Yusak O. Susilo, Yiik Diew Wong and Anna Pernestål

A systematic review of indicators to assess the sustainability of road infrastructure projects

This study aims to examine to what extent sustainability has been incorporated into assessments of road infrastructure projects. It identifies promising approaches that include indicators reflecting core susta...

Authors: Gede B. Suprayoga, Martha Bakker, Patrick Witte and Tejo Spit

Internal versus external European air market realities: the competitive divide

This paper looks at how ongoing attempts to improve air market competitiveness in Europe are challenged by the differing internal and external realities that exist. Europe’s internal multilateral single air ma...

Authors: Darren Ellis

The energy impact of adaptive cruise control in real-world highway multiple-car-following scenarios

Surging acceptance of adaptive cruise control (ACC) across the globe is further escalating concerns over its energy impact. Two questions have directed much of this project: how to distinguish ACC driving beha...

Authors: Yinglong He, Michail Makridis, Georgios Fontaras, Konstantinos Mattas, Hongming Xu and Biagio Ciuffo

Speedometer monitoring when driving with a speed warning system

The study investigated how a speed warning system influence drivers’ speedometer monitoring, and how drivers respond when they receive a speed warning. With a speed warning system, drivers may pay more attenti...

Authors: Esko Lehtonen, Neha Malhotra, Nicola J. Starkey and Samuel G. Charlton

The impact of driving homogeneity due to automation and cooperation of vehicles on uphill freeway sections

This work presents a microsimulation study on the topic on an uphill network, regarding the potential impact of AVs and Cooperative-AVs (Coop-AVs or CAVs), vehicles able to cooperate with the infrastructure. T...

Authors: Michail Makridis, Ludovic Leclercq, Konstantinos Mattas and Biagio Ciuffo

Impacts of increasing maximum truck weight – case Finland

Finnish government allowed in October 2013 operating high capacity vehicles (HCV) with a maximum weight limit of 76 t on Finnish roads. An analysis on how HCVs have affected the Finnish road freight transport ...

Authors: Heikki Liimatainen, Markus Pöllänen and Lasse Nykänen

Mobility styles and car sharing use in Europe: attitudes, behaviours, motives and sustainability

What are the profiles of both users and non-users of car sharing in European cities regarding their travel patterns and psychological aspects? Two subsamples (1519 users and 3695 non-users of car sharing) part...

Authors: Érika Martins Silva Ramos, Cecilia Jakobsson Bergstad, Andrea Chicco and Marco Diana

Trade-offs in traffic: does being mainly a car driver or a cyclist affect adaptive behaviour while driving and cycling?

Road users, such as cyclists and car drivers, are constantly adapting to each other and to the road infrastructure. This study aimed to investigate what trade-offs can be observed when drivers and cyclists ada...

Authors: Sara Nygårdhs, Katja Kircher and Björn J. E. Johansson

Materials selection for structured horizontal road markings: financial and environmental case studies

On majority of roads, horizontal road markings are essential safety feature that must be periodically renewed to maintain appropriate performance.

Authors: Tomasz E. Burghardt and Anton Pashkevich

Robust methods and conditional expectations for vehicular traffic count analysis

We study the problem of making algorithmic statistical inferences about the dynamics of city traffic. Our data is based on loop detector counts of observed vehicles in various roads in the city of Tampere, Fin...

Authors: Jorma Kilpi, Ilkka Norros, Pirkko Kuusela, Fanny Malin and Tomi Räty

Influence of seat-belt use on the severity of injury in traffic accidents

About 1.35 million people died in traffic accidents around the world in 2018, make this type of accidents the 8th cause of death in the world. Particularly, in Spain, there were 204,596 traffic accidents durin...

Authors: Juan Diego Febres, Susana García-Herrero, Sixto Herrera, J. M. Gutiérrez, J. R. López-García and Miguel A. Mariscal

The disruption transport model: computing user delays resulting from infrastructure failures for multi-modal passenger & freight traffic

Transport infrastructure owners are moving from reactive toward proactive infrastructure management. This involves computation of costs associated with failure or maintenance, including expected transport dela...

Authors: Marieke S. van der Tuin and Adam J. Pel

Opportunities and barriers to multimodal cities: lessons learned from in-depth interviews about attitudes towards mobility as a service

With the emergence of the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) concept, it is important to understand whether it has the potential to support behaviour change and the shift away from private vehicle ownership and use....

Authors: Melinda Matyas

Impact of conflict resolution parameters on combined alternate-directions lane assignment and reservation-based intersection control

We recently proposed a concept, called Combined Alternate-Direction Lane Assignment and Reservation-based Intersection Control (CADLARIC), for organizing directionally unrestricted traffic flows in automated v...

Authors: Aleksandar Stevanovic and Nikola Mitrovic

Exploring everyday mobility in a living lab based on economic interventions

New mobility solutions, such as Mobility as a Service, have been suggested to have the potential to reduce car ownership and be part of a transition towards a more sustainable transportation system. However, r...

Authors: Martin Sjöman, Tina Ringenson and Anna Kramers

Forecasts of future scenarios for airport noise based on collection and processing of web data

This paper presents an analysis of short-term (2025) scenarios for noise emission from civil air traffic in airport areas.

Authors: Marco Pretto, Pietro Giannattasio, Michele De Gennaro, Alessandro Zanon and Helmut Kuehnelt

Multi-year maintenance planning framework using multi-attribute utility theory and genetic algorithms

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for the development of optimal multi-year maintenance plans for a large number of bridges. A maintenance plan is said to be optimal when, within the given budget...

Authors: Zaharah Allah Bukhsh, Irina Stipanovic and Andre G. Doree

Energy minimization for an electric bus using a genetic algorithm

This paper addresses, in simulation, energy minimization of an autonomous electric minibus operating in an urban environment. Two different case studies have been considered, each involving a total of 10 diffe...

Authors: Sina Torabi, Mauro Bellone and Mattias Wahde

Modelling travelers’ appraisal of ridepooling service characteristics with a discrete choice experiment

Ridepooling services have been predicted a bright future since they promise a flexible and user-centered mobility service. However, there is a research gap in examining the travelers’ perception of ridepooling...

Authors: Alexandra König and Jan Grippenkoven

Vision-based vehicle detection and counting system using deep learning in highway scenes

Intelligent vehicle detection and counting are becoming increasingly important in the field of highway management. However, due to the different sizes of vehicles, their detection remains a challenge that dire...

Authors: Huansheng Song, Haoxiang Liang, Huaiyu Li, Zhe Dai and Xu Yun

Manage with care: the frailty of self-connections in the European airport network

This study evaluates the attractiveness of self-hubbing in terms of the (a) symmetry of itineraries and the consequences for passengers in the case of missed flights. We compute the most attractive European or...

Authors: Mattia Cattaneo, Paolo Malighetti, Stefano Paleari and Renato Redondi

Subsidising urban and sub-urban transport – distributional impacts

This paper studies distributional effects of public transport (PT) subsidies focusing on the Greater Oslo region. We identify how different PT markets enjoy different levels of subsidies. We describe how subsi...

Authors: Nils Fearnley and Jørgen Aarhaug

Port selection based on customer questionnaire: a case study of German port selection

A new research idea regarding port selection concerns customer-oriented, rather than product-oriented, thinking. Through investigation and interviews with over 280 active customers in the global shipping indus...

Authors: Yisong Lin and Xuefeng Wang

Relationships between risk of causing a motorway crash in Austria and attributes of drivers

The emphasis of the study presented in this paper was to identify the attributes of drivers who are prone to cause a motorway crash. It was induced byambitions to enhance the effectiveness of traffic safety ca...

Authors: Wolfgang J. Berger and Reinhard Hössinger