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Assessment of existing and future rail freight services and Technologies for low Density High Value Goods in Europe

In recent years there have been major changes in the composition of cargo to the point where, in Europe, semi-finished products (e.g. car parts) and finished goods represent the greatest transport demand. This...

Authors: Thomas H. Zunder and Dewan Md Zahurul Islam

An analytical model for vehicle miles traveled and carbon emissions for goods delivery scenarios

This paper presents an analytical model to contrast the carbon emissions from a number of goods delivery methods. This includes individuals travelling to the store by car, and delivery trucks delivering to hom...

Authors: Anne Goodchild, Erica Wygonik and Nathan Mayes

Investigation and sensitivity analysis of air pollution caused by road transportation at signalized intersections using IVE model in Iran

The development of urbanization has had many negative outcomes in different societies. Population growth and the increase in the transportation are the consequences of urban growth which has resulted into prob...

Authors: GholamAli Shafabakhsh, Seyed Ali Taghizadeh and Saeed Mehrabi Kooshki

The role of fines and rewards in the self-regulation of young drivers

The current study examined the relations between objective and subjective measures of driving patterns, focusing on traffic violations. In addition, the study explored the potential use of rewards in order to ...

Authors: Wafa Elias

Integrated American-European protocol for safety interventions on existing two-lane rural roads

The main purpose was to integrate two strategies for road safety analyses (qualitative: audits, inspections; and quantitative: accident predictions) and develop a possible protocol for the safety interventions...

Authors: Pasquale Colonna, Paolo Intini, Nicola Berloco and Vittorio Ranieri

Restrained mobility in a high-accessible and migrant-rich area in downtown Beijing

Immigrant travel has become an emerging research field in transportation planning. A handful of scholars have studied the travel behavior of residents in immigrant enclaves in North America. However, thus far,...

Authors: Shengxiao Li and Pengjun Zhao

Headway distribution models of two-lane roads under mixed traffic conditions: a case study from India

The time headway of vehicles is of fundamental importance in traffic engineering applications like capacity, level-of-service and safety studies. Further, the performance of traffic simulation depends on inputs i...

Authors: Rupali Roy and Pritam Saha

Simulation of B2C e-commerce distribution in Antwerp using cargo bikes and delivery points

The growth of e-commerce is accompanied by an increasing distribution of parcels in cities resulting in externalities like traffic congestion or emissions. As a consequence, different delivery concepts like bi...

Authors: F. Arnold, I. Cardenas, K. Sörensen and W. Dewulf

Exploring the relationship between urban freight demand and the purchasing behaviour of a University

This research was focused on the ‘receiver’ end of the supply chain that has, in recent years, emerged as a novel area of investigation by European urban freight researchers. The paper explores the importance ...

Authors: Paulus T. Aditjandra and Thomas H. Zunder

Challenges in the development of national policies on transport

Authors: Günter Emberger and Anthony D. May

Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies

This paper addresses the complex problem of multi-stakeholder decisions in urban freight transport policy-making from a public authority perspective, by proposing a procedure based on a modelling approach to s...

Authors: Michela Le Pira, Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Matteo Ignaccolo, Giuseppe Inturri and Alessandro Pluchino

Equity in transport: Learning from the policy domains of housing, health care and education

The aim of this paper is to explore the equity principles in three main domains of government intervention (health, education and especially housing) and to draw lessons for the domain of transport. In line wi...

Authors: J. F. Jeekel and C. J. C. M. Martens

Plan for sustainable urban logistics – comparing between Scandinavian and UK practices

Common practices in current urban logistics planning in Scandinavia and the UK, and the degree to which SUTP (Sustainable Urban Transport Plan), SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) and SULP (Sustainable Ur...

Authors: Karin Fossheim and Jardar Andersen

Planning transport infrastructures in an uncertain context. Analysis and limits to contemporary planning in France

The planning of transport infrastructures in France has been marked by three major developments: the European reform concerning the opening of rail transport to competition, the privatisation of semi-public mo...

Authors: Geneviève Zembri-Mary

Data stories from urban loading bays

Freight vehicle parking facilities at large urban freight traffic generators, such as urban retail malls, are often characterized by a high volume of vehicle arrivals and a poor parking supply infrastructure. ...

Authors: Giacomo Dalla Chiara and Lynette Cheah

Fundamental diagrams of pedestrian flow characteristics: A review

The dimensionality of pedestrian infrastructure facilities have a great influence on pedestrian movements and a considerable impact on natural environment of the facility. Understanding the pedestrian movement...

Authors: Lakshmi Devi Vanumu, K. Ramachandra Rao and Geetam Tiwari

Modelling delay saving through pro-active incident management techniques

Road traffic incidents cause delay, affect public safety and the environment. The CEDR PRIMA project aims to extend practical guidance for traffic managers in pro-active Traffic Incident Management (TIM) techn...

Authors: Nicholas B. Taylor, Johan Olstam, Viktor Bernhardsson and Philippe Nitsche

Cars and ground-level ozone: how do fuels compare?

An important question for policy-makers is how the main automotive fuels – diesel, gasoline, LPG (and increasingly, electricity) – compare in terms of ground-level ozone formation.

Authors: Eric Johnson

The complexity of planning for goods delivery in a shared urban space: a case study involving cyclists and trucks

Growth in urban areas has resulted in conflicts between road users as they share the roadway. Such conflicts are only exacerbated by failings in the planning process. The purpose of this study is to examine, t...

Authors: Kelly Pitera, Petr Pokorny, Terje Kristensen and Astrid Bjørgen

Does competition in the housing market cause transport poverty? Interrelations of residential location choice and mobility

This contribution examines the impact of the housing market on daily mobility and is based on the assumption that, in a supply-dominated housing market, as availability and affordability decline, many people m...

Authors: Lena Sterzer

Japan’s transport planning at national level, natural disasters, and their interplays

This research aims to give an overview of Japan’s national-level transport planning schemes, and to discuss interplays between them and recoveries from natural disasters. In the first part, Japan’s national sp...

Authors: Takeru Shibayama

Opening the door to social equity: local and participatory approaches to transportation planning in Montreal

Transportation systems play a key role in providing individuals with a diversity of means to access their desired destinations and have significant impacts on their quality of life. The social perspective of m...

Authors: Geneviève Boisjoly and Genesis T. Yengoh

Stated preference survey for estimating passenger transfer penalties: design and application to Madrid

Transfers in multimodal urban trips imply a disutility for travellers, who perceive them as a penalty when using public transport. It is therefore important to estimate the utility associated to transfers and ...

Authors: Rocio Cascajo, Andres Garcia-Martinez and Andres Monzon

Topical collection on human factors and safety

Authors: Dominique Mignot

An improved approach for association rule mining using a multi-criteria decision support system: a case study in road safety

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

Crowd logistics: an opportunity for more sustainable urban freight transport?

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

An approach to geometry-based dynamic location referencing

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

Policy insights and modelling challenges: The case of passenger car powertrain technology transition in the European Union

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

The use of freight apps in road freight transport for CO₂ reduction

The purpose of this study was to investigate how a smart phone freight application service (Apps) could reduce CO₂ emissions in road freight transport and to identify the core problems for improvements.

Authors: Ye Li and Yuewu Yu

An evaluation of train control information systems for sustainable railway using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model

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

Maintaining and researching port safety: a case study of the port of Kaohsiung

Maintaining port safety in full conformity with IMO standards is a requisite for every port and country. To do this, understanding the challenges and human factors involved is key. To date, much research has s...

Authors: Po-Hsing Tseng and Nick Pilcher

Topical collection on accessibility and policy making

Authors: Ana Condeço-Melhorado and Karst T. Geurs

Smart urban freight planning process: integrating desk, living lab and modelling approaches in decision-making

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

The severity of driver fatigue in terms of line crossing: a pilot study comparing day- and night time driving in simulator

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

Evaluating the impacts of using cargo cycles on urban logistics: integrating traffic, environmental and operational boundaries

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

Effectiveness and acceptability of milled rumble strips on rural two-lane roads in Sweden

The study sought to estimate the effects of centreline milled rumble strips on rural two-lane roads in Sweden in a wide perspective. Traffic safety effects (i.e., fewer crashes and injuries), driver experience...

Authors: Anna Vadeby and Anna Anund

Transport policy planning in Germany - An analysis of political programs and investment masterplans

In Germany, the most recent comprehensive transport policy program of the federal government was published in the year 2000, followed by several sector specific programs. Aims, strategies, and priorities speci...

Authors: Frank Fichert

Electric vehicles charging infrastructure location: a genetic algorithm approach

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

Examining the relationships between individual’s time use and activity participations with their health indicators

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

A case study exploring firefighters’ and municipal officials’ preparedness for electrical vehicles

This study presents a social perspective on new vehicle technology. It explores the self-reported preparedness of the fire departments (i.e., rescue services) in Sweden’s three largest cities regarding rescue ...

Authors: Christina Stave and Annelie Carlson

Severity analysis of powered two wheeler traffic accidents in Uttarakhand, India

Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) vehicles are one of the preferred modes of transport used in India. Also, PTWs accidents are comparatively more frequent than other type of accidents on road. The influencing factors ...

Authors: Sachin Kumar and Durga Toshniwal

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