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Multi-agent preemptive longest queue first system to manage the crossing of emergency vehicles at interrupted intersections

Favouring the crossing of Emergency Vehicles (EVs) through intersections in urban cities is very critical for people lives. There have been several efforts toward developing Traffic Signal Control Systems (TSC...

Authors: Ali Louati, Sabeur Elkosantini, Saber Darmoul and Hassen Louati

A new adaptive cruise control strategy and its stabilization effect on traffic flow

Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies are likely to be gradually implemented over time. In this paper, an adaptive cruise control, named Smart Driver Model (SDM), is proposed to describe the auto...

Authors: Chaoru Lu and Arvid Aakre

Predicting personal injury crash risk through working conditions, job strain, and risky driving behaviors among taxi drivers

Taxis play an important role among public transport modes in China, but there has been very little in-depth research regarding taxi drivers’ crash risk. Thus, this study aimed to develop a quantitative method ...

Authors: Xingqiang Ba, Feifei Zhou and Yonggang Wang

Freight and service parking needs and the role of demand management

This paper assesses the parking needs of freight and service related commercial activities and identifies the role of demand management in mitigating these needs.

Authors: Shama Campbell, José Holguín-Veras, Diana G. Ramirez-Rios, Carlos González-Calderón, Lokesh Kalahasthi and Jeffrey Wojtowicz

Travel time predictions: should one model speeds or travel times?

Travel time predictions are of importance for individual trip planning as well as for logistics applications. Since travel time and travel speed have a one-one correspondence, the modeller has the choice to mo...

Authors: Dietmar Bauer and Mirsad Tulic

Range of technical-economic competitiveness of rail-road combined transport

Road haulage has been the most widely used mode of freight transport in many European countries for several decades. Given the attention to sustainable transport in this century, the rail-road combined transpo...

Authors: Angela Carboni and Bruno Dalla Chiara

A Nested Logit analysis of the influence of distraction on types of vehicle crashes

This work aims to study factors, such as driver characteristics, environmental conditions, and vehicle characteristics, that affect different crash types with a special focus on distraction parameters. For thi...

Authors: Hesamoddin Razi-Ardakani, Ahmadreza Mahmoudzadeh and Mohammad Kermanshah

Group decision making process for early stage evaluations of infrastructure projects using extended VIKOR method under fuzzy environment

This paper considers the evaluations of project alternatives at the early stages of infrastructure project developments. Although it is expected to make important decisions at project early stages, it is rarel...

Authors: Ivan Belošević, Milana Kosijer, Miloš Ivić and Norbert Pavlović

Determinants of urban public transport efficiency: case study of the Czech Republic

The aim of this paper is to identify the factors influencing efficiency of urban public transport (UPT) systems and to benchmark Czech UPT systems according to their efficiency.

Authors: Hana Fitzová, Markéta Matulová and Zdeněk Tomeš

Analysis and modelling of performances of the HL (Hyperloop) transport system

Hyperloop (HL) is presented as an efficient alternative of HSR (High Speed Rail) and APT (Air Passenger Transport) systems for long-distance passenger transport. This paper explores the performances of HL and ...

Authors: Kees van Goeverden, Dimitris Milakis, Milan Janic and Rob Konings

Speed reduction effects over distance of animal-vehicle collision countermeasures – a driving simulator study

This study examined if speed reduction effects from animal-vehicle collision (AVC) countermeasures are merely local or do extend to a wider area, and what implications the results have on road planning practic...

Authors: Annika K. Jägerbrand, Hans Antonson and Christer Ahlström

Modeling the effect of days and road type on peak period travels using structural equation modeling and big data from radio frequency identification for private cars and taxis

The main congestion on roads occur during peak hours, apart from incidents such as road accidents and construction works. Although there have been studies on peak period travels, these studies have only implic...

Authors: Tina Dzigbordi Wemegah, Shunying Zhu and Charles Atombo

Topical collection on the role of planning towards sustainable urban mobility

Authors: Hana Brůhová Foltýnová, Maria Attard and Sandra Melo

Assessing the economic and environmental impacts of urban food systems for public school canteens: case study of Great Lyon region

Urban logistics is a subject that interests both city planners and researchers. Although many works are found in non-food distribution, food-based logistics is less studied in an urban context, and sustainabil...

Authors: Laura Palacios-Argüello, Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Natacha Gondran and Fabien Badeig

A psycho-Geoinformatics approach for investigating older adults’ driving behaviours and underlying cognitive mechanisms

Safe driving constantly challenges the driver’s ability to respond to the dynamic traffic scene under space and time constraints. It is of particular importance for older drivers to perform sufficient visual a...

Authors: Qian (Chayn) Sun, Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Jonathan Foster, Torbjörn Falkmer and Hoe Lee

An international review of challenges and opportunities in development and use of crash prediction models

Over the past 10 years, building on road infrastructure data, crash prediction models (CPMs) have become fundamental scientific tools for road safety management. However, there is a gap between state-of-the-ar...

Authors: Jiří Ambros, Chris Jurewicz, Shane Turner and Mariusz Kieć

Sustainability assessment of retail logistics solutions using external costs analysis: a case-study for the city of Antwerp

Policy implementation in the logistics sector might drive unexpected side-effects which sometimes undermine the performance of key economic activities of logistics operators, especially in areas such as transp...

Authors: Konstantinos Papoutsis, Wouter Dewulf, Thierry Vanelslander and Eftihia Nathanail

On the variation of the crash risk with the total number of bicyclists

A prominent policy, which has been proposed in many European municipalities over the last years is the promotion of cycling to decrease pollution and to increase public health. One important part of the assess...

Authors: Leonhard Lücken

Area-wide real-world test scenarios of poor visibility for safe development of automated vehicles

Automated vehicles in everyday real-world traffic are predicted to be developed soon (Gasser et al., Rechtsfolgen zunehmender Fahrzeugautomatisierung, Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Berichte der Bundesanstalt für Straß...

Authors: Thomas Winkle, Christian Erbsmehl and Klaus Bengler

A proposal for an operating cycle description format for road transport missions

This article presents a proposal for an operating cycle format for describing transport missions of road vehicles, for example a logging truck fetching its cargo. The primary application is in dynamic simulati...

Authors: Pär Pettersson, Sixten Berglund, Bengt Jacobson, Lars Fast, Pär Johannesson and Fabio Santandrea

A macroscopic traffic model for traffic flow harmonization

Traffic flow will harmonize to forward conditions. The time and distance required for harmonization can have a significant effect on the traffic density behavior. The flow can evolve into clusters of vehicles ...

Authors: Zawar H. Khan and T. Aaron Gulliver

Smart cities and transport infrastructures topical collection

Authors: Laurent Carnis

Short turning pattern for relieving metro congestion during peak hours: the substance coherence of Shanghai, China

Urban metro system generally has to deal with intractable heavily passenger loading during peak hours, in which demands are extreme huge in certain stations. However, overcrowding doesn’t ubiquitously exist fo...

Authors: Xueqing Ding, Shituo Guan, Daniel Jian Sun and Limin Jia

Delivery truck drivers’ work outside the cab: psychosocial discomforts and risks based on participatory video analyses

Delivery truck drivers face various physical and psychosocial discomforts and risks in their work. Psychosocial perceptions are linked to physiological and psychological loads—strain and stress—affecting drive...

Authors: Jose Manuel Ojel-Jaramillo Romero, Arto Reiman, Jose Juan Cañas Delgado, Seppo Väyrynen, Janne Pekkala and Mikael Forsman

Self-reporting traffic crashes – a systematic literature review

A traffic safety analysis that is based on registered crashes often suffers from underreporting, which may result in biased conclusions and lead to misguided crash-prevention strategies. Self-reporting traffic...

Authors: Noor Azreena Kamaluddin, Camilla Sloth Andersen, Mette Kathrine Larsen, Katrine Rabjerg Meltofte and András Várhelyi

Simulation investigations of the coordinated traffic-responsive signal control strategy TUC with actuation at the local junction level

TUC (Traffic-responsive Urban Control), a strategy aiming at providing coordinated traffic-responsive signal control in large-scale urban networks, has demonstrated high efficiency, especially under saturated ...

Authors: Diamantis Manolis, Christina Diakaki, Ioannis Papamichail and Markos Papageorgiou

Experiences of rail intermodal freight transport for low-density high value (LDHV) goods in Europe

Previous studies have suggested an upward growth trend in low density, high value (LDHV) goods in Europe. Such goods require time sensitive, reliable services and currently, most LDHV goods are transported by ...

Authors: Dewan Md Zahurul Islam and Thomas H. Zunder

Characterization and analysis of metropolitan freight patterns in Medellin, Colombia

This paper seeks to pilot test a novel way to collect freight and service activity data and analyze the collected data in the metropolitan area of Medellin, Colombia.

Authors: Carlos A. Gonzalez-Calderon, Iván Sánchez-Díaz, Iván Sarmiento-Ordosgoitia and José Holguín-Veras

Overview of traffic incident duration analysis and prediction

Non-recurrent congestion caused by traffic incident is difficult to predict but should be dealt with in a timely and effective manner to reduce its influence on road capacity reduction and enormous travel time...

Authors: Ruimin Li, Francisco C. Pereira and Moshe E. Ben-Akiva

Characteristics of variable speed limit systems

The control algorithm used for deciding on the speed limit in variable speed limit systems is crucial for the performance of the systems. The algorithm is designed to fulfil the purpose of the variable speed l...

Authors: Ellen F. Grumert, Andreas Tapani and Xiaoliang Ma

Utilitarian and hedonic walking: examining the impact of the built environment on walking behavior

Most previous studies have mainly focused on utilitarian or recreational walking and discussed their relationship with the built environment. The point is that most of these studies have not been sensitive to ...

Authors: Enayat Mirzaei, Reza Kheyroddin, Mostafa Behzadfar and Dominique Mignot

Industry strategies for the promotion of E-mobility under alternative policy and economic scenarios

In this study, we consider the European electro-mobility market from an industrial perspective, and focus on effects of market conditions and manufacturer strategies, with the objective to gain insight on what...

Authors: Gillian Harrison, Jonatan J. Gómez Vilchez and Christian Thiel

A headway to improve PTW rider safety within the EU through three types of ITS

The current safety situation for Powered Two Wheelers (PTW) within the EU is alarming. According to EU statistics, PTW riders account for 17% of all fatal road injuries in the region and twice as many fataliti...

Authors: Anne Silla, Lars Leden, Pirkko Rämä, Johan Scholliers, Martijn van Noort, Andrew Morris, Graham Hancox and Daniel Bell

Editorial for special issue of European transport research review: transport poverty and inequalities

Authors: Karen Lucas

Travel behaviour of seniors in Eastern Europe: a comparative study of Brno and Bratislava

Although seniors represent a sizable group of a population with distinctive travelling needs, we lack knowledge about their travel behaviour related to usage of public transport in the context of Eastern Europ...

Authors: Michal Šimeček, Vít Gabrhel, Marek Tögel and Michal Lazor

The use of neuropsychological tests to study the effects of aging on driving performance in the UK

Research was conducted to identify a series of neuropsychological tests to assess the ability to drive. Driving performance of young and old UK drivers was modeled through multiple linear regression and univar...

Authors: Rawid Khan, Muhammad Tariq Khan and Bashir Alam

Financing urban transportation infrastructure in a multi-actors environment: the role of value capture

A family of innovative financial mechanisms and tools for urban public transport, based on the value increment caused by enhanced accessibility, are lately gaining much popularity as a solution to the challeng...

Authors: Anastasia Roukouni, Cathy Macharis, Socrates Basbas, Basil Stephanis and George Mintsis

Assessing the market potential of electric bicycles and ICT for low carbon school travel: a case study in the Smart City of ÁGUEDA

Electric bikes (e-bikes) may help in transport decarbonisation in European cities. To fully assess the market potential of e-bikes, further research is needed to understand users' preferences and the range of ...

Authors: Elisabete Arsenio, Joana V. Dias, Sofia Azeredo Lopes and Helena Iglésias Pereira

Vehicle trajectory at curved sections of two-lane mountain roads: a field study under natural driving conditions

The trajectory of a vehicle is comprehensively affected by the interactions between the vehicle, the driving behavior, and the road environment. High-risk driving behaviors and accident-prone road sections can...

Authors: Jin Xu, Xiao Luo and Yi-Ming Shao

SEM application to the household travel survey on weekends versus weekdays: the case of Seoul, South Korea

This study analyzes the relationship that land use has with weekend travel in comparison to weekday travel. Unlike previous studies, it uses the same sample for two models that are specified to test the relati...

Authors: Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim

City-hubs for smarter cities. The case of Lille “EuraFlandres” interchange

The importance of the transport infrastructure role is often described in the attempt to describe the characteristics of a “smart city”. Good planning and organization of communication networks contributes to ...

Authors: Odile Heddebaut and Floridea Di Ciommo

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