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Urban freight consultations in the Paris region

This article describes recent freight consultations in the Paris region (called the Ile de France) and assesses their usefulness to the urban freight policy. The Ile de France is one of 22 French regions, and ...

Authors: Laetitia Dablanc, Diana Diziain and Hervé Levifve

Which sign is more visible? Measuring the visibility of traffic signs through the conspicuity index method

A new method of measuring visibility taking context into account introduced by Alexander Wertheim has been validated in this study. The purpose was to see if a simple and practical technique could render robus...

Authors: Thomas Porathe and Lennart Strand

Investigating the accelerated deterioration of flexible pavement using two-stage design analysis approach

The accelerated deterioration of flexible pavement and its relation to design strength requirements is a major problem facing highway engineers. The goal of this research is to investigate a possible relations...

Authors: Khaled A. Abaza and Suleiman A. Ashur

Transport capacity constraints on the mass transit system: a systemic analysis

A public passenger transit system is complex, because it involves two types of traffic unit, passengers and vehicles. The system operations require supplying passengers with stations where they can access vehi...

Authors: Fabien Leurent

Objective and subjective evaluation of an advanced motorcycle riding simulator

This paper outlines the characteristics of a top-of-the range motorcycle simulator designed and built at the University of Padua over a period of several years last years; it consists of a motorcycle mock-up w...

Authors: Vittore Cossalter, Roberto Lot and Stefano Rota

Estimated societal costs of a hierarchical measures approach to enhanced school transportation safety at bus stops on roads with high speed limits

Most school bus related injury events in Sweden take place when the child is outside the bus. In order to enhance their safety, the societal costs of four different measures applied on “bus stops” on high spee...

Authors: Torbjörn Falkmer, Linda Renner and Anna Anund

An activity-based approach for complex travel behaviour modelling

In this paper an activity-based modelling framework is presented. It enhances many of the characteristics of existing approaches and enables a more accurate travel demand modelling.

Authors: Gennaro Nicola Bifulco, Armando Cartenì and Andrea Papola

The economic impact of the upcoming EU emissions trading system on airlines and EU Member States—an empirical estimation

In February 2009, the European Union’s (EU) Directive for the inclusion of aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) for CO₂-emissions came into force. From 2012 onwards, the EU-ETS will cover virtua...

Authors: Martin Schaefer, Janina Scheelhaase, Wolfgang Grimme and Sven Maertens

Data accuracy on automatic traffic counting: the SMART project results

In this paper the results of an experimental survey on traffic monitoring devices, named SMART Project, are presented. Aim of the project was to define the requirements to be applied to traffic technologies to...

Authors: Patrizia Bellucci and Ernesto Cipriani

The application of in-vehicle systems for elderly drivers

In response to the rapidly ageing global population, the purpose of this paper is to identify the problems of elderly drivers and their relation to emerging in-vehicle technologies.

Authors: Amy Weihong Guo, Jenny F. Brake, Simon J. Edwards, Phil T. Blythe and Richard G. Fairchild

A methodology to assess pedestrian crossing safety

The safety level of a pedestrian crossing is affected by infrastructure characteristics and vehicular and pedestrian traffic level. This paper presents a methodology that allows assessing the safety level of a...

Authors: Olga Basile, Luca Persia and Davide Shingo Usami

Piloting smart safe school bus: exploration of security gains from implementation of a driver support system, additional technical equipment and intelligent bus stops

Road crash statistics reveal that school children are frequent victims and the most risky situation is when the child is outside the bus. The aim of this pilot study was to explore possible changes in speed, i...

Authors: Anna Anund, Tania Dukic, Björn Börsbo and Torbjörn Falkmer

Field test on visibility at cycle crossings at night

The main purpose of the study was to compare the night-time visibility distance of cycle crossings to the night-time visibility distance of bicyclists at the corresponding cycle crossings. This was tested both...

Authors: Sara Nygårdhs and Carina Fors

An intelligent curve warning system for powered two wheel vehicles

This article illustrates a novel Curve Warning system for motorcycles which has been developed in the SAFERIDER project (www.​saferider-eu.​org) of the 7th EU ...

Authors: Francesco Biral, Mauro Da Lio, Roberto Lot and Roberto Sartori

Galileo for railway operations: question about the positioning performances analogy with the RAMS requirements allocated to safety applications

GNSS is penetrating, surely but certainly, the railway market. Introduction is performed through non safety oriented applications such as fleet management or passenger information. However, a huge panel of saf...

Authors: Julie Beugin, Aleš Filip, Juliette Marais and Marion Berbineau

A comparative study of models for the incident duration prediction

This study is intended to investigate the reliability of different incident duration prediction models for real time application with a view to contribute to the development of a decision aid tool within the i...

Authors: Gaetano Valenti, Maria Lelli and Domenico Cucina

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

Model based traffic congestion detection in optical remote sensing imagery

A new model based approach for the traffic congestion detection in time series of airborne optical digital camera images is proposed.

Authors: Gintautas Palubinskas, Franz Kurz and Peter Reinartz

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

Note from the editor

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