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Early adopters of carsharing with and without BEVs with respect to gender preferences

The majority of current e-carsharing users are middle-aged men with a high education and high income; they are most likely to have a full-time employment. Women are consistently underrepresented in previous st...

Authors: Ines Kawgan-Kagan

Consideration of transport logistics hubs in freight transport demand models

The increasing importance of logistics and its effects on transportation processes have been considered in freight transport demand modelling by new model developments incorporating several logistics aspects. ...

Authors: Stefan Huber, Jens Klauenberg and Carina Thaller

“I want complete freedom”: car use and everyday mobility among the newly retired

To investigate car use among newly retired people, to explore to what extent car transport is used for everyday mobility and how it is valued in comparison to other transport modes.

Authors: Jessica Berg, Lena Levin, Marianne Abramsson and Jan-Erik Hagberg

How to promote electromobility for European car drivers? Obstacles to overcome for a broad market penetration

Electric vehicles can be a successful mobility alternative, but several obstacles and challenges have to be overcome first. Especially the customers’ purchase decision determines whether an innovation like ele...

Authors: Jan-André Bühne, Dana Gruschwitz, Jana Hölscher, Matthias Klötzke, Ulrike Kugler and Christoph Schimeczek

A review of fuzzy methods in automotive engineering applications

The paper addresses evolution of fuzzy systems for core applications of automotive engineering.

Authors: Valentin Ivanov

Increasing the competitiveness of e-vehicles in Europe

This paper is concerned with incentives for the take-up and use of e-vehicles that are in place in different European countries. Especially, it analyses Norway and Austria, in order to establish and understand...

Authors: Erik Figenbaum, Nils Fearnley, Paul Pfaffenbichler, Randi Hjorthol, Marika Kolbenstvedt, Reinhard Jellinek, Bettina Emmerling, G. Maarten Bonnema, Farideh Ramjerdi, Liva Vågane and Lykke Møller Iversen

Erratum to: Lisbon’s Establishment-based Freight Survey: revealing retail establishments’ characteristics, goods ordering and delivery processes

Authors: André Romano Alho and João de Abreu e Silva

Distraction effects of navigation and green-driving systems – results from field operational tests (FOTs) in the UK

Navigation systems and green-driving advisory systems are now a common feature in modern vehicles. The interaction of drivers with such systems when driving must be considered to minimise distraction whilst ma...

Authors: Andrew Morris, Steven Reed, Ruth Welsh, Laurie Brown and Stewart Birrell

The Virtual Driving Coach - design and preliminary testing of a predictive eco-driving assistance system for heavy-duty vehicles

The commercial vehicle sector is characterized by high competitive pressure. Fuel consumption is one major factor that influences the transport efficiency and competitiveness of logistics companies. Therefore,...

Authors: Daniel Heyes, Thomas J. Daun, Andreas Zimmermann and Markus Lienkamp

Advanced Train Location Simulator (ATLAS) for developing, testing and validating on-board railway location systems

This article focuses on a novel Advanced Train LocAtion Simulator (ATLAS) for on-board railway location using wireless communication technologies, such as satellite navigation and location based systems. ATLA...

Authors: Jon Goya, Leticia Zamora-Cadenas, Saioa Arrizabalaga, Alfonso Brazález, Juan Meléndez and Jaizki Mendizabal

Prioritization in modal shift: determining a region’s most suitable freight flows

Different policy measures have been introduced to enhance a modal shift from road-only to intermodal transport. In Northwestern European countries such as Belgium, policy makers are increasingly trying to appr...

Authors: Dries Meers and Cathy Macharis

Assessing the impact of the 2011 EU Transport White Paper - a rail freight demand forecast up to 2050 for the EU27

This paper presents a rail freight forecast for the EU27 for the period up to 2050.

Authors: Dewan Md Zahurul Islam, Ross Jackson, Thomas Hagen Zunder and Arnaud Burgess

Short-term traffic flow prediction using seasonal ARIMA model with limited input data

Accurate prediction of traffic flow is an integral component in most of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications. The data driven approach using Box-Jenkins Autoregressive Integrated Moving Av...

Authors: S. Vasantha Kumar and Lelitha Vanajakshi

Working with the daily variation in infrastructure performance on territorial accessibility. The cases of Madrid and Barcelona

Accessibility measurements are good tools for analysing the performance of possible policies on land use / transport / society systems. Until now, accessibility has been approached from a static perspective, e...

Authors: Borja Moya-Gómez and Juan Carlos García-Palomares

Active and attitudinal acceptability of reporting own travel data

In order to offer attractive public transport services, transport operators depend on a clear understanding of travel behavior. Norwegian public transport operators, however, have less access to such data than...

Authors: Kristin Ystmark Bjerkan and Marianne Elvsaas Nordtømme

A Data Envelopment Analysis approach for accessibility measures: Simulating operational enhancement scenarios for railway across Europe

As well known, infrastructure endowment influences competitiveness of a region since the characteristics of a transport system in terms of capacity, connectivity, speeds, etc. determine the advantages/disadvan...

Authors: F. Rotoli, E. Navajas Cawood and P. Christidis

Competitive tendering in an entry regulated market—an accident waiting to happen?

Competitive tendering was introduced in the contract segment of the Norwegian taxi industry in 2005; a market characterised by entry regulation. Using this reform as a natural experiment this research looks in...

Authors: Jørgen Aarhaug

Lisbon’s Establishment-based Freight Survey: revealing retail establishments’ characteristics, goods ordering and delivery processes

Establishment-based freight surveys (EBFS) are a specific data collection process for urban freight operations. The focus of both this research, and of the data collection process, was to investigate vehicle a...

Authors: André Romano Alho and João de Abreu e Silva

How poverty restricts elderly Germans’ everyday travel

Many elderly people are affected by poverty. Furthermore, old-age poverty is likely to increase in the future. However, the everyday travel behaviour of disadvantaged elderly people is not a focus of German tr...

Authors: Flemming Giesel and Katja Köhler

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

In the airline industry the term load factor is defined as the percentage of seats filled by revenue passengers. The load factor is a metric that measures the airline’s capacity and demand management. This pap...

Authors: Yohannes Yebabe Tesfay and Per Bjarte Solibakke

Framework for airfield pavements management—an approach based on cost-effectiveness analysis

The agencies responsible to operate and maintain airfields in developing countries manage the airfield pavements on need to do/ reactive basis instead of resorting to performance based preventive maintenance a...

Authors: Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Bilal Khurshid, Shahid Iqbal and Abid Khan

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

This paper presents a review, classification schemes, critique, a simple meta-analysis and future research implication of fuel consumption optimization (FCO) literature in the air transport sector. This review...

Authors: Vedant Singh and Somesh Kumar Sharma

Variants of transshipment problem

In a transshipment problem all the sources and destinations can function in any direction thus transshipment is very useful to reduce the transportation cost. Sometimes, because of budget/political constraint,...

Authors: Archana Khurana

Sulphur emission control areas and transport strategies -the case of Sweden and the forest industry

The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) decision to lower the allowable amount of sulphur content in marine fuels to 0.1 % in the so-called Emission Control Areas (ECAs) beginning in 2015 has outraged ...

Authors: Rickard Bergqvist, Marcus Turesson and Alexander Weddmark

Service network design in inland waterway liner transportation with empty container repositioning

As inland shipping has been playing a more and more important role in integrated transportation system, the optimization of such a network with empty containers repositioning is of great practical significance...

Authors: Fen An, Hao Hu and Chi Xie

Estimated impacts of the sulphur directive on the Nordic industry

The International Maritime Organization and the European Parliament (EP) have stated that ships must lower sulphur emissions significantly in a specific region in Northern Europe, that is, in the Sulphur Emiss...

Authors: Esa Hämäläinen

Review of remote sensing methodologies for pavement management and assessment

Evaluating the condition of transportation infrastructure is an expensive, labor intensive, and time consuming process. Many traditional road evaluation methods utilize measurements taken in situ along with visua...

Authors: E. Schnebele, B. F. Tanyu, G. Cervone and N. Waters

Precautionary and operational costs of freight train delays: a case study of a Swedish grocery company

There is limited up-to-date knowledge about the monetary valuation of improved reliability for freight transports. This means that the benefits of reduced variability in transport time are not properly taken i...

Authors: Niclas A. Krüger and Inge Vierth

The barriers to low-carbon land-transport and policies to overcome them

Considerable efficiency gains can be made cost-effectively to set the transport sector on a sustainable development pathway. They can be achieved through already available technologies and practices, which wil...

Authors: Oliver Lah

Derivation of level of service by artificial neural networks at horizontal curves: a case study in Egypt

Multi-lane highways represent the majority of the total length of highway network at many countries. The geometric design of such facilities and the traffic volume which includes heavy vehicles percentage (HV)...

Authors: Ahmed Mohamed Semeida

Sensitivity analysis of train schedule of a railway track network using an optimization modeling technique

Modeling of train operations is helpful to plan railway corridor activities and optimize the use of resources. This paper models the train scheduling problem of a single line railway network with main concern ...

Authors: Malik Muneeb Abid and Muhammad Babar Khan

A response to industrial maturity and energetic issues: a possible solution based on constructal law

Transport vehicle industry is suffering a diffused technological maturity. Energy efficiency is increasing with a certain velocity. But many factors in car development are playing against.

Authors: Michele Trancossi

A new urban freight distribution scheme and an optimization methodology for reducing its overall cost

The paper refers to an innovative urban freight distribution scheme, aimed at reducing the externalities connected with the freight delivery process. Both packages destined to commercial activities and to end ...

Authors: Elvezia M. Cepolina and Alessandro Farina

A comparison of North American and European railway systems – a critique and riposte

The objective of current paper is to offer constructive criticism and expose some serious shortcomings in the paper published Clausen and Voll (Transp Res Rev 5:129–133, 2013) in the ETRR.

Authors: Phil Mortimer and Dewan Md Zahurul Islam

The Manchester driver behaviour questionnaire: self-reports of aberrant behaviour among Czech drivers

Considering the human contribution to car crashes, it seems necessary to make a distinction between different forms of aberrant driver behaviour and its different psychological origins. The aim of the present ...

Authors: Matus Sucha, Lenka Sramkova and Ralf Risser

The evaluation of safety efficiency of non-urban infrastructure improvements; a case-study

This study examined the safety efficiency of infrastructure improvements applied on the non-urban roads in Israel. The improvements considered were implemented by the National Transport Infrastructure Company ...

Authors: Victoria Gitelman, Roby Carmel and Fany Pesahov

Are young drivers as careful as they deem? In vehicle data recorders and self reports evaluations

This paper aims to explore the driving behavior of young drivers few years after licensure based on two different evaluation approaches, which are used in a complementary manner. The evaluation was done with r...

Authors: Gila Albert, Tsippy Lotan, Tomer Toledo, Einat Grimberg and Mariano Lasebnik

Argos-ESL: a versatile tool for planning and managing experiments on driving behavior

Argos is a long-term program started in 1990 to promote experimental research about driver behavior under realistic driving conditions. The development of the latest Argos platform has recently been completed ...

Authors: Antonio Pérez, M. Isabel García, Manuel Nieto, José L. Pedraza, Santiago Rodríguez and Juan Zamorano

The study of the possibility of switching driving side in Rwanda

Harmonisation of driving laws of Rwanda with the surrounding East Africa Community (EAC) countries, which mostly drive on the left-hand side of the road, would lead to improved links between these strategic tr...

Authors: Md Mahabubul Bari

Modeling road accident injury under-reporting in Europe

In this research, a disaggregate analysis of road accident injury under-reporting in selected European countries is presented.

Authors: George Yannis, Eleonora Papadimitriou, Antonis Chaziris and Jeremy Broughton

Experimental evaluation of a system for assisting motorcyclists to safely ride road bends

Introduction  Road bends of extra-urban and rural roads are known to be particularly relevant for motorcycle riding safety. For this reason a Curve Warning system has been developed for assisting the motorcyclist...

Authors: Francesco Biral, Paolo Bosetti and Roberto Lot

The necessity for a new quality standard for freight transport and logistics in Europe

The objectives of this paper are to: collect and analyse existing European international standards for freight transport and logistics quality; consult with industry actors and stakeholders in order to ascerta...

Authors: Dewan Md Zahurul Islam and Thomas H. Zunder

Road safety audit on a major freeway: implementing safety improvements

The paper presents (i) the method followed in a road safety audit of Attica Freeway (“Attiki Odos”), (ii) the findings and recommendations which arose from the RSA, (iii) the improvements made by the freeway o...

Authors: Sophia Vardaki, Fanis Papadimitriou and Pantelis Kopelias

Cognitive workload and visual behavior in elderly drivers with hearing loss

To examine eye tracking data and compare visual behavior in individuals with normal hearing (NH) and with moderate hearing loss (HL) during two types of driving conditions: normal driving and driving while per...

Authors: Birgitta Thorslund, Christer Ahlström, Björn Peters, Olle Eriksson, Björn Lidestam and Björn Lyxell

Environmental and economic effects of widespread introduction of electric vehicles in Greece

The scope of this paper is to present the results of the Project HyTech, which aimed, amongst other objectives, to quantify the environmental and economic effects of generalized introduction and use of electri...

Authors: C. I. Chatzikomis, K. N. Spentzas and A. G. Mamalis

Air connectivity and foreign direct investments: economic effects of the introduction of new routes

The key research question for this study was whether the spatial network structure offered by the global airline system contributes to the development of Italian inward Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs). We ar...

Authors: Mariasole Bannò and Renato Redondi

A pattern matching approach to speed forecasting of traffic networks

Unlike other existing traffic data collection techniques, probe vehicles, or floating cars traveling on a road network, have appeared as a complementary solution for increasing coverage areas without requiring...

Authors: V. Fabrizi and R. Ragona

Why is road safety in the U.S. not on par with Sweden, the U.K., and the Netherlands? Lessons to be learned

This study compared road safety and related factors in the U.S. with those in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands (which are among the best-performing countries), in order to identify actions most ...

Authors: Juha Luoma and Michael Sivak

Assessing driver’s ability to estimate compliance rates to in-car, advisory driver support

In-car support systems focus increasingly on improving traffic flow and throughput. Advisory systems allow for fast market penetration, advising drivers how to drive in order to improve general flow. By follow...

Authors: Malte Risto and Marieke H. Martens

Selecting the appropriate public transportation system to access the Sari International Airport by fuzzy decision making

Air travel is the fastest way for transporting goods and human; therefore, the airports are vital parts of transportation industry. Since airports are considered as tourism gates, they have a great influence o...

Authors: GholamAli Shafabakhsh, Mansour Hadjihoseinlou and Seyed Ali Taghizadeh