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A data-driven quantitative assessment model for taxi industry: the scope of business ecosystem’s health

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

Recommendations for actions concerning supporting ITS developments for VRUs

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

Safety, mobility and comfort assessment methodologies of intelligent transport systems for vulnerable road users

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

Transport policies in Hungary - historical background and current practice for national and regional level

This paper presents an overview of the current and past evolution of the Hungarian Transport Policies and investigates how and what kind of results could be used in the future transport concepts and strategies...

Authors: Vilmos Oszter

Drivers of changes in Spanish accessibility for the 1960–2010 period

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

Exploring the uncertainty in capacity estimation at roundabouts

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

Target detection distances under different road lighting intensities

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

A generic discrete choice model of automobile purchase

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

Integration of vulnerable road users in cooperative ITS systems

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

Attitudes among older drivers towards medical assessment at renewal of driving license in Sweden

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

A CPN/B method transformation framework for railway safety rules formal validation

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

The local economic impacts of high-speed railways: theories and facts

Elected officials and practitioners generally believe that - along with gains in time, environment, and roadway safety - the local economic impacts brought by high-speed railways (HSR) could be a major ingredi...

Authors: Corinne Blanquart and Martin Koning

The future of European rail freight transport and logistics

Authors: Dewan Md Zahurul Islam and Magnus Blinge

Review of intermodal freight transportation in humanitarian logistics

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

From the analysis of European accident data to safety assessment for planning: the role of good vehicles in urban area

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

Driver behaviour and driver experience of partial and fully automated truck platooning – a simulator study

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

Appropriate national policy frameworks for sustainable urban mobility plans

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

National transport policy in Austria – from its beginning till today

The objective of the paper is to research the historic development of the Austrian transport policy. It explores when a transport strategy was made for the first time, from whom, and which purpose was pursuit....

Authors: Guenter Emberger

First aid as an important traffic safety factor – evaluation of the experience–based training

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

The effect of curb parking on road capacity and traffic safety

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

Comparison of road safety in Finland and Sweden

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

Effects of winter Tyre type on roughness and polishing of road surfaces covered with ice and compact snow

This field study was designed to compare to what degree various proportions of studded and unstudded winter tyres affect the roughness and polishing of road surfaces covered with ice and compact snow.

Authors: Mikko Malmivuo and Juha Luoma

On fault detection and exclusion in snapshot and recursive positioning algorithms for maritime applications

Introduction Resilient provision of Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) data can be considered as a key element of the e-Navigation strategy developed by the International Maritime Orga...

Authors: Ralf Ziebold, Luis Lanca and Michailas Romanovas

Complex railway systems: capacity and utilisation of interconnected networks

Worldwide the transport sector faces several issues related to the rising of traffic demand such as congestion, energy consumption, noise, pollution, safety, etc. Trying to stem the problem, the European Commi...

Authors: Rotoli Francesco, Malavasi Gabriele and Ricci Stefano

Swiss Split—a holistic approach to the distribution of containers to private sidings

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

Organisation of railway freight transport: case study CIM/SMGS between Slovakia and Ukraine

This paper presents a method for optimising freight traffic procedures on the border between Slovakia (European Union) and Ukraine.

Authors: Borna Abramović, Vladislav Zitricky and Vedran Biškup

Variability in daily activity-travel patterns: the case of a one-week travel diary

Understanding temporal rhythms in travel and activity patterns has been recognized as an important issue for the effective management of urban congestion. Research issues related to this topic concern the degr...

Authors: Charles Raux, Tai-Yu Ma and Eric Cornelis

A multi-modal network approach to model public transport accessibility impacts of bicycle-train integration policies

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

Parking equilibrium along the street

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

Adapted cost-benefit analysis methodology for innovative railway services

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

A stock-flow cohort model of the national car fleet

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

Sight distance restriction on highways’ horizontal curves: insights and sensitivity analysis

The study focuses on sight distance restrictions on horizontal curves in highway design. Barriers along open highways and walls on tunnels may restrict the available sight distance in the design of horizontal ...

Authors: Shy Bassan

Effectiveness of two cognitive training programs on the performance of older drivers with a cognitive self-assessment bias

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

Transferring urban traveling speed model fits across cities

Link traveling time models form the basis for route planning methods used in navigation devices as well as for logistic applications. These models are provided based on extensive real world data sets which are...

Authors: Christian Heinze, Maximilian Leodolter, Hannes Koller and Dietmar Bauer

How to make modal shift from road to rail possible in the European transport market, as aspired to in the EU Transport White Paper 2011

The total demand for freight transport in Europe has increased significantly in recent decades, but most of it has been handled by road transport. To fulfil the modal shift targets set in the EU White Paper 20...

Authors: Dewan Md Zahurul Islam, Stefano Ricci and Bo-Lennart Nelldal

Recognition of built-up and non-built-up areas from road scenes

In many cases, it does not follow from the road design, whether the given scene is within or outside the posted built-up area. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate road scenes, how far they can be consider...

Authors: Gabriella Kosztolanyi-Ivan, Csaba Koren and Attila Borsos

Lessons learned from the collaborative European project RESTRAIL: REduction of suicides and trespasses on RAILway property

RESTRAIL was a three year EU FP7 research project which aimed to help reduce the occurrence of suicides and trespasses on railway property and the costly service disruption caused by these events. The project ...

Authors: Grigore M. Havârneanu, Marie-Hélène Bonneau and Jacques Colliard

Predicting the results of a referendum on urban road pricing in France: “the cry of Cassandra”?

Abundant literature now exists on the acceptability of the new pricing measure represented by urban tolls. However, this literature contains few examples providing a “political” analysis of their introduction....

Authors: Stéphanie Souche-Le Corvec, C. Raux, J. Eliasson, C. Hamilton, K. Brundell-Freij, K. Kiiskilä and J. Tervonen

The study design of UDRIVE: the naturalistic driving study across Europe for cars, trucks and scooters

UDRIVE is the first large-scale European Naturalistic Driving Study on cars, trucks and powered two-wheelers. The acronym stands for “European naturalistic Driving and Riding for Infrastructure & Vehicle safet...

Authors: Yvonne Barnard, Fabian Utesch, Nicole van Nes, Rob Eenink and Martin Baumann

Characterisation of road bumps using smartphones

Speed bumps are used as the main means of controlling vehicle speeds all over the world. It is not too infrequent, especially in the emerging economies, to have unmarked bumps that can be perilous for the pass...

Authors: Abhijit Mukherjee and Subhra Majhi

Analyzing the moderating effects of respondent type and experience on the fuel efficiency improvement in air transport using structural equation modeling

The limited nature of oil, and hence aviation fuel is increasingly becoming a restraining factor for the air transport industry. Also, fuel efficiency is crucial for commercial air transport as fuel is one of ...

Authors: Vedant Singh and Somesh K. Sharma

A new aircraft architecture based on the ACHEON Coanda effect nozzle: flight model and energy evaluation

Aeronautic transport has an effective necessity of reducing fuel consumption and emissions to deliver efficiency and competitiveness driven by today commercial and legislative requirements. Actual aircraft con...

Authors: Michele Trancossi, Mauro Madonia, Antonio Dumas, Diego Angeli, Chris Bingham, Shyam Sumanta Das, Francesco Grimaccia, Jose Pascoa Marques, Eliana Porreca, Tim Smith, Paul Stewart, Maharshi Subhash, Anna Sunol and Dean Vucinic

Intensive travel time: an obligation or a choice?

This paper explores what prompts some individuals to spend a significant amount of time travelling. In the literature, travel time tends to be regarded as useless, unproductive time and, in some cases, as the ...

Authors: Iragaël Joly and Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin

Accessibility and territorial cohesion in a case of transport infrastructure improvements with changing population distributions

In the last decade or so several studies have looked into the impacts of transport infrastructure improvements on decreasing territorial disparities. In those studies population levels are usually assumed stat...

Authors: Chris Jacobs-Crisioni, Filipe Batista e Silva, Carlo Lavalle, Claudia Baranzelli, Ana Barbosa and Carolina Perpiña Castillo

Three-dimensional stopping sight distance control on passing lanes of divided highways

Stopping Sight Distance control of passing lanes of divided highways represents currently a discussion point among researchers. A 3-D approach to address the issue is accepted as the overall solution to the pr...

Authors: Stergios Mavromatis, Fotis Mertzanis, Giorgos Kleioutis and Basil Psarianos

Traffic (safety) culture and alcohol use: cultural patterns in the light of results of the SARTRE 4 study

Culture is put centre stage not only in contemporary social science, but also in safety research. In this paper we ask whether a safety culture exists in contemporary traffic systems across Europe and how it m...

Authors: Christopher Schlembach, Gerald Furian and Christian Brandstätter

Erratum to: Spectral density estimation of European airlines load factors for Europe-Middle East and Europe-Far East flights

Authors: Yohannes Yebabe Tesfay and Per Bjarte Solibakke

Erratum to: Fuel consumption optimization in air transport: a review, classification, critique, simple meta-analysis, and future research implications

Authors: Vedant Singh and Somesh Kumar Sharma

A decision support tool for evaluating decision options for out-bound flight delays considering high-valuable passengers

Though studies show that arriving on-time is the service characteristic most valued by the air passengers and passenger service coordinators are consulted in the operation disruptions, passengers rarely drive ...

Authors: Slavica Radivojevic and Olaf Milbredt

Guest Editorial

Authors: O. A. Elrahman