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European railway traffic management system validation using UML/Petri nets modelling strategy

The European Union set up a European management system for rail traffic: the ERTMS system to ensure, in full safety, train circulation on different European networks. As the full deployment of this system is l...

Authors: Sana Jabri, El Miloudi El Koursi, Thomas Bourdeaud’huy and Etienne Lemaire

Excess travelling—what does it mean? New definition and a case study of excess commuters in Tyne and Wear, UK

This paper has four main aims. Firstly, to undertake a critical review of existing definitions of excess travel focused on travel to work and hence to present a new definition which takes account of important ...

Authors: Stuart Barr, Anna Fraszczyk and Corinne Mulley

Overcoming the barriers to implementing urban road user charging schemes

Urban road user charging offers the potential to achieve significant improvements in urban transport, but is notoriously difficult to implement. Cities need guidance on the range of factors to be considered in...

Authors: Anthony D. May, Andrew Koh, David Blackledge and Michela Fioretto

Logistics FDI in Italy: integration strategies and motivations

The aim of the paper is to investigate the integration strategies (vertical, horizontal and conglomerate) undertaken by foreign logistics multinational enterprises (MNE) in Italy, and analyze the related motiv...

Authors: Elena Maggi and Ilaria Mariotti

Evaluating impact of demerit points system on speeding behavior of drivers

The objective of this research was to evaluate the immediate impact of the demerit points system on speeding behavior of drivers in Al Ain. Al Ain is the fourth largest city in the United Arab Emirates, locate...

Authors: Arif Mehmood

A neo-institutional economic approach to automated speed enforcement systems

From the economic literature, the automated speed enforcement schemes can be interpreted as a specific institution, which works to the reduction of the social cost and enables a better use of road infrastructu...

Authors: Laurent Carnis

A high speed tri-vision system for automotive applications

Cameras are excellent ways of non-invasively monitoring the interior and exterior of vehicles. In particular, high speed stereovision and multivision systems are important for transport applications such as dr...

Authors: Marc Anthony Azzopardi, Ivan Grech and Jacques Leconte

Towards a European ITS for freight transport and logistics: results of current EU funded research and prospects for the future

The purpose of this paper is to review the developments of the last 15 years in the field of Freight Transport research and innovation, primarily (but not exclusively) in Europe focusing on the “Intelligent Tr...

Authors: George A. Giannopoulos

Reduction of commercial aircraft noise emission around airports. A new environmental challenge

Noise abatement procedures (NAPs) are considered as a necessary measure for a balanced approach of noise control around airports. Their correct implementation depends upon many factors, which vary in operation...

Authors: Salah Khardi

Weighting methods in multi-attribute assessment of transport projects

The paper considers the application to transport project assessment of multi-attribute value theory (MAVT). The aim is to compare the results of three weighting methods which are used in MAVT: ratio with swing...

Authors: Paolo Delle Site and Francesco Filippi

EU DRUID project: results of a questionnaire survey amongst participants of driver rehabilitation programmes in Europe

This study was one part of the research activities of work package 5 “Rehabilitation” of the integrated EU DRUID project (6th Framework Programme). It aimed at gathering information about the cognitive–affecti...

Authors: Simone Klipp

An activity-based system of models for student mobility simulation

The objective of this paper is to provide a tool for transport system planning. Therefore, a system of models for student mobility simulation on a university campus is proposed.

Authors: Gabriella Mazzulla

Evaluating the performance of freight transport: a service approach

The objective of this paper is to develop an alternative framework for evaluation of performance in freight transport, based on heterodox service economics. Traditionally, transport performance is analysed thr...

Authors: Corinne Blanquart and Antje Burmeister

In-depth evaluation of the effects of an automatic emergency call system on road fatalities

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of an automatic emergency call system on accident consequences in Finland (ex-ante evaluation). In addition, the effects of the system on emergency response times and t...

Authors: Niina Sihvola, Juha Luoma, Anna Schirokoff, Jari Salo and Kari Karkola

Common before-after accident study on a road site: a low-informative Bayesian method

This note aims at providing a Bayesian methodological basis for routine before-after accident studies, often applied to a single road site, and in conditions of limited resources in terms of time and expertise.

Authors: Thierry Brenac

An off-line map-matching algorithm for incomplete map databases

The task of map-matching consists of finding a correspondence between a geographical point or sequence of points (e.g. obtained from GPS) and a given map. Due to many reasons, namely the noisy input data and i...

Authors: Francisco Câmara Pereira, Hugo Costa and Nuno Martinho Pereira

e-TREAM—improve your knowledge on transport

e-TREAM is an e-learning tool which offers training in transport issues like mobility management and alternative fuels. The main target groups are energy agencies but everybody is welcome who is seeking to dev...

Authors: Tobias Kipp

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Authors: Janez Potočnik

The vehicle approach for freight road transport energy and environmental analysis in Spain

This paper summarizes the results of a permanent road freight sample survey carried out in 1997-2003 on heavy duty vehicles in Spain. In particular, this work reviews some of the key indicators that are measur...

Authors: P. J. Pérez-Martínez

Driver-vehicle interfaces and interaction: where are they going?

The car was born around a century ago and its evolution has been incredibly fast, both in technology and in style. We have to move through different social and cultural evolutions to arrive to the present stat...

Authors: Sergio Damiani, Enrica Deregibus and Luisa Andreone

The effects of travel information presentation through nomadic systems on driver behaviour

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of providing travel information to drivers about a traffic jam ahead and a potential detour or short-cut. Two groups of participants, native and non-native ...

Authors: K. A. Brookhuis and M. Dicke

Drive-style emissions testing on the latest two Honda hybrid technologies

Hybrid technology is seen by many as a potential solution to reduce vehicle emissions in cities. However type approval tests of hybrid vehicles measure emission levels comparable to those of conventional cars ...

Authors: Adriano Alessandrini, Fabio Orecchini, Fernando Ortenzi and Federico Villatico Campbell

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Authors: Evangelos Bekiaris

A demand model for international freight transport by road

This paper presents a system of models for the estimation of road international (import/export) freight flows by using a partial share approach. It allows to simulate generation (for export), attraction (for i...

Authors: Agostino Nuzzolo, Umberto Crisalli and Antonio Comi

Towards safer level crossings: existing recommendations, new applicable technologies and a proposed simulation model

Every year, more than 400 people are killed in over 1,200 accidents at road-rail level crossings in the European Union. Together with tunnels and specific road black spots, level crossings have been identified...

Authors: Louahdi Khoudour, Mohamed Ghazel, Fouzia Boukour, Marc Heddebaut and El-Miloudi El-Koursi

Trespassing on Finnish railways: identification of problem sites and characteristics of trespassing behaviour

This study identified the sites of frequent trespassing on Finnish railways, investigated trespassing behaviour at selected sites, and explored opinions about preventive measures.

Authors: Anne Silla and Juha Luoma

Towards automatic near real-time traffic monitoring with an airborne wide angle camera system

Large area traffic monitoring with high spatial and temporal resolution is a challenge that cannot be served by today available static infrastructure. Therefore, we present an automatic near real-time traffic ...

Authors: Dominik Rosenbaum, Franz Kurz, Ulrike Thomas, Sahil Suri and Peter Reinartz

Super Light Car—lightweight construction thanks to a multi-material design and function integration

The Super Light Car (SLC) project is one of the most important research projects in the European Community for automotive lightweight construction with a multi-material approach. The paper shows the motivation...

Authors: Martin Goede, Marc Stehlin, Lukas Rafflenbeul, Gundolf Kopp and Elmar Beeh