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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

Modelling travel time uncertainty in urban networks based on floating taxi data

The prediction of the uncertainty of route travel time predictions for all possible routes in an urban road network is of importance for example for logistics. Such predictions need to take the essential featu...

Authors: Dietmar Bauer, Mirsad Tulic and Wolfgang Scherrer

Influence of drivers’ visual and cognitive attention on their perception of changes in the traffic environment

Drivers are met with numerous elements requiring their attention while driving. The present research focuses on selected visual and cognitive distractions that the driver is faced with, and on their influence ...

Authors: Tina Cvahte Ojsteršek and Darja Topolšek

Preventing the risks of monotony related fatigue while driving through gamification

Driving fatigue can have serious consequences. Too often fatal accidents are caused by fatigue. However, it is not uncommon for fatigue to occur while driving when the driver is under-challenged. Due to the in...

Authors: Lukas Bier, Michael Emele, Kaja Gut, Jasna Kulenovic, David Rzany, Max Peter and Bettina Abendroth

Response-based methods to measure road surface irregularity: a state-of-the-art review

With the development of smart technologies, Internet of Things and inexpensive onboard sensors, many response-based methods to evaluate road surface conditions have emerged in the recent decade. Various techni...

Authors: Teron Nguyen, Bernhard Lechner and Yiik Diew Wong

Electrophysiological and performance variations following driving events involving an increase in mental workload

This study aimed at investigating how driver’s mental workload could be assessed during driving, using driving performance as well as electrophysiological and subjective data. Participants had to follow a lead...

Authors: Hugo Loeches De La Fuente, Catherine Berthelon, Alexandra Fort, Virginie Etienne, Marleen De Weser, Jonas Ambeck and Christophe Jallais

Integrating mobility data sources to define and quantify a vehicle-level congestion indicator: an application for the city of Turin

Traffic congestion is a large-scale problem in urban areas all over the world that can lead to substantial costs for travellers and business operations. This paper focus on how to measure the way in which cong...

Authors: Miriam Pirra and Marco Diana

Modelling the impacts of EU countries’ electric car deployment plans on atmospheric emissions and concentrations

The purpose of this work is to quantify key environmental impacts of electric vehicles deployment in the European Union. This is achieved by soft-linking three models (PRIMES-TREMOVE, DIONE and SHERPA) to expl...

Authors: Jonatan J. Gómez Vilchez, Andreea Julea, Emanuela Peduzzi, Enrico Pisoni, Jette Krause, Pelopidas Siskos and Christian Thiel

Optimisation and personalization technologies and algorithms for future transportation systems

Authors: Evangelos D. Bekiaris

Preferences in regional public transport: a literature review

The purpose of this article is to analyse quality attributes of regional public transport and their influence on modal choice, demand, and customer satisfaction through a literature review. The review is based...

Authors: Joel Hansson, Fredrik Pettersson, Helena Svensson and Anders Wretstrand

The social perception of urban transport in the city of Madrid: the application of the Servicescape Model to the bus and underground services

This paper is a study of the user’s perception of urban and suburban transport and was carried out in an attempt to compare the social value of various means of transport. The measurement of social perceptions...

Authors: María Luisa Delgado Jalón, Alba Gómez Ortega and Javier De Esteban Curiel

Impacts of gradual automated vehicle penetration on motorway operation: a comprehensive evaluation

Gradual penetration of automated vehicles (AVs) into current motorway systems will usher the stage of mixed traffic in which AVs will coexist with human driven vehicles. Thus, there is an urgent need to identi...

Authors: Duo Li and Peter Wagner

Driving simulator-based training to improve self-rating ability of driving performance in older adults – a pilot study

The aim was to investigate the potential of using simulator-based training (SBT) to improve older drivers' self-rating ability and to compare two forms of feedback; corrective versus corrective and rewarding f...

Authors: Helena Selander, Christina Stave, Tania Dukic WiIlstrand and Björn Peters

Implementing a quattromodal freight hub: an approach for the city of Vienna

In terms of freight transportation it is essential to pick the most convenient mode(s) of transport (MOT). To get a more flexible system, one can assume that the number of transport options at each hub should ...

Authors: Karin Markvica, Matthias Prandtstetter, Jürgen Zajicek, Bernhard Heilmann, Gernot Lenz, Georg Hauger, Monika Wanjek, Claudia Berkowitsch, Sarah Pfoser, Oliver Schauer, Lisa-Maria Putz, Reinhold Schodl and Sandra Eitler

Developing a user typology considering unimodal and intermodal mobility behavior: a cluster analysis approach using survey data

This paper aims to develop a user typology which enables user-specific analyses in respect of mobility behavior. It addresses the challenge of integrating unimodal and intermodal travel behavior into a user ty...

Authors: Rebekka Oostendorp, Simon Nieland and Laura Gebhardt

Perceived action spaces for public actors in the development of Mobility as a Service

The public sector is showing increased interest in Mobility as a Service (MaaS), as its introduction and market penetration is proposed to potentially disrupt the personal transport system. However, involved p...

Authors: Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Göran Smith

Owning or sharing autonomous vehicles: comparing different ownership and usage scenarios

The impact of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on urban mobility systems is an increasingly discussed topic in recent years. There is currently some discussions about different ownership models and their consequences...

Authors: Abood Mourad, Jakob Puchinger and Chengbin Chu

Last mile delivery by drones: an estimation of viable market potential and access to citizens across European cities

Rapid technological developments in autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV or drones) and an evolving legislation may soon open the way for their large-scale implementation in the last mile delivery of produ...

Authors: Jean-Philippe Aurambout, Konstantinos Gkoumas and Biagio Ciuffo

Truck-bicycle safety: an overview of methods of study, risk factors and research needs

The growing numbers of cyclists either injured or killed in accidents caused by trucks have been generally regarded as a safety problem since the 1980s (McCarthy & Gilbert, Accident Analysis & Prevention 28:27...

Authors: Petr Pokorny and Kelly Pitera

Key factors for the implementation and integration of innovative ICT solutions in SMEs and large companies involved in the multimodal transport of dangerous goods

The increased number of transports with dangerous goods (TDG) increases the risk of both accidents and terrorist attacks. Digitalisation is crucial in order to avoid human errors and to increase safety, securi...

Authors: Gemma Dolores Molero, Francisco Enrique Santarremigia, Sara Poveda-Reyes, Melanie Mayrhofer, Samir Awad-Núñez and Abdullah Kassabji

Combining ITS and optimization in public transportation planning: state of the art and future research paths

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications in public transportation have allowed for automated data collection, which is particularly useful for planning and operations. While technological advancem...

Authors: Christina Iliopoulou and Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou

Interpreting risk factors for truck crash severity on mountainous freeways in Jiangxi and Shaanxi, China

The occurrence and severity of truck crashes generally involve complex interactions among factors correlated to driver characteristics, vehicle attributes, roadway geometry and environment conditions. Thus, th...

Authors: Yonggang Wang, Ye Luo and Fayu Chen

Dual-hub connectivity: a case study on China Eastern Airlines in Shanghai

To deal with slot constraints and insufficient capacity, emerging multi-airport systems have been under construction in China. This paper chose China Eastern Airlines as a case study, evaluating its hub connec...

Authors: Huijuan Yang and Weiwei Liu

Including negative externalities during transport infrastructure construction in assessment of investment projects

The paper presents a method for optimizing the financing option for transport infrastructure project. The execution time for large project is substantial and the social costs generated during the construction ...

Authors: Serban Raicu, Dorinela Costescu, Mihaela Popa and Mircea Augustin Rosca

Foreign countries, foreign customs: an analysis of short-distance mobility of new immigrants in the Rhine-Main region in Germany

Mobility is an important driver of social integration. Against this background, the years since 2014 challenged cities and municipalities in Europe when a large number of immigrating refugees came to Europe an...

Authors: Isabella Geis

Evaluation of innovative ideas for Public Transport proposed by citizens using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

The use of participatory techniques in the field of transport is coming to the forefront recently. In this frame, eight co-creation workshops and five online crowdsourcing campaigns took place in Thessaloniki,...

Authors: Dimitrios Nalmpantis, Anastasia Roukouni, Evangelos Genitsaris, Afroditi Stamelou and Aristotelis Naniopoulos

The future of freight transport

Authors: Cathy Macharis and Silvio Nocera

Correction to: The vibrations induced by surface irregularities in road pavements – a Matlab® approach

After publication of this article [1], it is noticed the article contained an error with eq. 12, the c_s should be squared. The correct eq. 12 is provided below:

Authors: M. Agostinacchio, D. Ciampa and S. Olita

Synchromodality in the Physical Internet – dual sourcing and real-time switching between transport modes

Synchromodality, also referred to as “synchronized intermodality”, employs multiple transport modes in a flexible, dynamic way in order to induce a modal shift towards more environmentally friendly transport m...

Authors: Nina Lemmens, Joren Gijsbrechts and Robert Boute

The effect of road safety education on the relationship between Driver’s errors, violations and accidents: Slovenian case study

One of the pillars of road safety strategies, in almost every country in the world, is training and education. Due to the diversity and different extents of evaluation methods, the influence of educational and...

Authors: Darja Topolšek, Dario Babić and Mario Fiolić

Planning urban pavement maintenance by a new interactive multiobjective optimization approach

Pavement maintenance is essential to prevent the deterioration of asset value and to satisfy the expectations of all stakeholders (objectives). However, the budgets are often insufficient to keep the road pave...

Authors: Maria Grazia Augeri, Salvatore Greco and Vittorio Nicolosi

Avoiding drunk driving with a push

The present study explores a novel approach for changing implicit attitudes toward drunk driving with behavioural training. Contrary to explicit attitudes, which people are consciously aware of and therefore c...

Authors: Laila Marianne Martinussen and Mikael Julius Sømhovd

Units of information on dynamic message signs: a speed pattern analysis

A single unit of information is an answer to any anticipated question a motorist may ask. Such questions include: “What happened? Where? What do I do?” This study, a first of its kind, analyzes the optimum num...

Authors: Snehanshu Banerjee, Mansoureh Jeihani, Nashid K. Khadem and Danny D. Brown

Location, location, relocation: how the relocation of offices from suburbs to the inner city impacts commuting on foot and by bike

In recent decades there has been increasing focus on the development of compact and accessible urban environments, in part based on the reasoning that this can help to reduce the transportation requirements of...

Authors: Ray Pritchard and Yngve Frøyen

Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries

Cities crave innovative logistics solutions dealing with the requirements of the ‘on demand economy’. The paper estimates the willingness to act as a crowdshipper (supply) and to buy a crowdshipping service (d...

Authors: Valerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Marialisa Nigro and Simone Serafini

Compositional data techniques for the analysis of the container traffic share in a multi-port region

The statistical techniques based on compositional data are applied to investigate the evolution of the traffic share of the container throughput in a multi-port system. Compositional vectors are those which co...

Authors: M. Grifoll, M. I. Ortego and J. J. Egozcue

Measuring delivery route cost trade-offs between electric-assist cargo bicycles and delivery trucks in dense urban areas

Completing urban freight deliveries is increasingly a challenge in congested urban areas, particularly when delivery trucks are required to meet time windows. Depending on the route characteristics, Electric A...

Authors: Manali Sheth, Polina Butrina, Anne Goodchild and Edward McCormack

The impact of distance on mode choice in freight transport

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of distance on choosing between intermodal rail-road and unimodal road transport and to examine the hypothesis that distance is an important factor influencin...

Authors: Borut Zgonc, Metka Tekavčič and Marko Jakšič

A spatial framework for Planning station-based bike sharing systems

Urban bike sharing systems (BSS) are currently gaining momentum worldwide. They are regarded as integrated elements of public transport systems and perfectly anticipate the societal trend of the sharing econom...

Authors: Martin Loidl, Ursula Witzmann-Müller and Bernhard Zagel

A shift-share based tool for assessing the contribution of a modal shift to the decarbonisation of inland freight transport

Resulting from the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015, the European Union’s (EU) current climate and energy objective is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% below 1990 level...

Authors: Olaf Jonkeren, Jan Francke and Johan Visser

Intermodal transportation of full and empty containers in harbor-inland regions based on revenue management

The transport of full containers and repositioning of empty containers are essential for the operation of a container logistic enterprise. In a large inland region, railway and road transportation take their o...

Authors: Zixuan Peng, Huaizhu Wang, Wensi Wang and Yonglei Jiang

Feature selection and extraction in spatiotemporal traffic forecasting: a systematic literature review

A spatiotemporal approach that simultaneously utilises both spatial and temporal relationships is gaining scientific interest in the field of traffic flow forecasting. Accurate identification of the spatiotemp...

Authors: Dmitry Pavlyuk

Heterogeneity of logistics facilities: an issue for a better understanding and planning of the location of logistics facilities

In the last few years, the issue of the location of logistics activities emerged in the literature, in Europe and in the United States, especially from the perspective of logistics spatial dynamics as logistic...

Authors: Adeline Heitz, Pierre Launay and Adrien Beziat

DEA Malmquist productivity index based on a double-frontier slacks-based model: Iranian road safety assessment

Many governments in the developing world face the social and economic consequences of road accidents and mortalities. Hence, more precise evaluation of regional programs to reduce road fatalities has been a co...

Authors: S. S. Ganji and A. A. Rassafi

Investigating the preferences of individuals on public transport innovations using the Maximum Difference Scaling method

Public Transport users have diverse mobility needs and preferences on how to meet those needs. While this is consistent with typical standards for both academic scholars and practitioners, less is known about ...

Authors: Stelios Tsafarakis, Panagiotis Gkorezis, Dimitrios Nalmpantis, Evangelos Genitsaris, Andreas Andronikidis and Efthymios Altsitsiadis

Evaluation of a momentum based impact model in frontal car collisions for the prospective assessment of ADAS

The advent of active safety systems calls for the development of appropriate testing methods that are able to assess their capabilities to avoid accidents or lower impact speeds and thus, to mitigate the injur...

Authors: Stefan Smit, Ernst Tomasch, Harald Kolk, Michael Alois Plank, Jürgen Gugler and Hannes Glaser