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Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) digital marketplace impact on EU passengers’ rights

Integrated and seamless mobility has been a futuristic vision of mobility for a few years already. Today, Mobility as a Service (MaaS) embodies that vision through the integration of existing and new mobility ...

Authors: Erion Murati

Research on feeder network design: a case study of feeder service for the port of Kotka

By exemplifying the feeder service for the port of Kotka, this study proposed a multi-objective optimization model for feeder network design. Innovative for difference from the single-objective evaluation syst...

Authors: Yisong Lin, Xuefeng Wang, Hao Hu and Hui Zhao

A cost benefit model for high capacity transport in a comprehensive line-haul network

The objective of the paper is to analyse the potential of introducing High Capacity Transport (HCT) within a comprehensive line-haul network. Barriers and enablers have been identified, and a cost benefit mode...

Authors: David Lindqvist, Marwan Salman and Rickard Bergqvist

Economic impact of autonomous vehicles in Spain

Pollution, traffic accidents, and congestion are huge problems in most urban areas. Autonomous and electric vehicles are leading our society to a new mobility model, also known as the New Era of Transportation...

Authors: Efrén Alonso, Cristina Arpón, María González, Ramón Ángel Fernández and Mariano Nieto

Costs related to serious road injuries: a European perspective

Costs related to road crashes represent an important societal burden. Additionally they constitute an essential input variable to assess the cost efficiency of road safety measures. While most attention is usu...

Authors: Annelies Schoeters, Wim Wijnen, Laurent Carnis, Wendy Weijermars, Rune Elvik, Stijn Daniels and Heiko Johannsen

Performance assessment of alternative SSS networks by combining KPIs and factor-cluster analysis

Performance assessment is a fundamental tool to successfully monitor and manage logistics and transport systems. In the field of Short Sea Shipping (SSS), the performance of the various maritime initiatives sh...

Authors: Patrizia Serra and Gianfranco Fancello

Assessing transport policies for tourist mobility based on accessibility indicators

Tourism is a key sector in the national economies, representing a real asset for increasing the competitiveness and the world-wide visibility of a Country. In Italy, the widespread diffusion of the tourist her...

Authors: Pierluigi Coppola, Armando Carbone, Carmine Aveta and Piera Stangherlin

State-of-art review of traffic signal control methods: challenges and opportunities

Due to the menacing increase in the number of vehicles on a daily basis, abating road congestion is becoming a key challenge these years. To cope-up with the prevailing traffic scenarios and to meet the ever-i...

Authors: Syed Shah Sultan Mohiuddin Qadri, Mahmut Ali Gökçe and Erdinç Öner

Optimization of resource demand for passenger services at airports during system failures such as blackouts

In recent years, power outages at airports caused total collapses of terminal operations at the affected airports. These incidents have shown that existing emergency power systems were not sufficient to mainta...

Authors: Lisa-Marie Brause, Andrei Popa, Tobias Koch, Andreas Deutschmann and Martin Hellmann

Correction to: Impact assessment of rural PPP MaaS pilots

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Jenni Eckhardt, Arttu Lauhkonen and Aki Aapaoja

Why drivers are frustrated: results from a diary study and focus groups

Designing emotion-aware systems has become a manageable aim through recent developments in computer vision and machine learning. In the context of driver behaviour, especially negative emotions like frustratio...

Authors: Esther Bosch, Klas Ihme, Uwe Drewitz, Meike Jipp and Michael Oehl

Distributional effects of carbon taxation in passenger transport with lump-sum offset: low income households, retirees and families would benefit in Germany

The introduction of a carbon tax on passenger transport is currently being discussed in Germany. Various stakeholders favour a consumption-based, revenue-neutral carbon tax with a uniform lump-sum offset for p...

Authors: Christine Eisenmann, Felix Steck, Lars Hedemann, Barbara Lenz and Florian Koller

The traffic signal control problem for intersections: a review

The intersection traffic signal control problem (ITSCP) has become even more important as traffic congestion has been more intractable. The ITSCP seeks an efficient schedule for traffic signal settings at inte...

Authors: Myungeun Eom and Byung-In Kim

Impact assessment of rural PPP MaaS pilots

The purpose of this paper is to present the impact assessment results of Mobility as a Service pilots based on public-private collaboration. In the pilots, companies and local and regional stakeholders joined ...

Authors: Jenni Eckhardt, Arttu Lauhkonen and Aki Aapaoja

Towards behaviour based testing to understand the black box of autonomous cars

Autonomous cars could make traffic safer, more convenient, efficient and sustainable. They promise the convenience of a personal taxi, without the need for a human driver. Artificial intelligence would operate...

Authors: Fabian Utesch, Alexander Brandies, Paulin Pekezou Fouopi and Caroline Schießl

Optimization of a physical internet based supply chain using reinforcement learning

Physical Internet based supply chains create open, global logistics systems that enable new types of collaboration among participants. The open system allows the logistical examination of vehicle technology in...

Authors: Eszter Puskás, Ádám Budai and Gábor Bohács

Human factors of digitalized mobility forms and services

Authors: Alexandra Millonig and Sonja Haustein

Rethinking transport – towards clean and inclusive mobility (Highlights of the 2020 Transport Research Arena conference)

Authors: Miloš N. Mladenović, Pekka Leviäkangas, Claudio Roncoli and Saara Hänninen

Examining gender differences of social media use for activity planning and travel choices

The explosive growth of social media has rendered them powerful communication channels. User generated content is an important source of inspiration and influence among web friends, it generates new activities...

Authors: Maria Karatsoli and Eftihia Nathanail

Origin-destination matrix estimation with a conditionally binomial model

A doubly stochastic, conditionally binomial model is proposed to describe volumes of vehicular origin-destination flows in regular vehicular traffic, such as morning rush hours. The statistical properties of t...

Authors: Pirkko Kuusela, Ilkka Norros, Jorma Kilpi and Tomi Räty

Exploring city propensity for the market success of micro-electric vehicles

As a subset of increasing EV growth and micro-mobility technology trends, micro-electric vehicles (micro-EVs) have the potential to address many transport system issues. Little research quantifies micro-EV pot...

Authors: Ilona Loustric and Melinda Matyas

Vehicle energy savings by optimizing road speed-sectioning

In a context of decreasing resources and of climate change, lowering road vehicles consumption is a key point to meet CO₂ reduction requirements. In addition to car technological advances, eco-driving is part of ...

Authors: Alex Coiret, Emir Deljanin and Pierre-Olivier Vandanjon

Freight distribution in urban areas: a method to select the most important loading and unloading areas and a survey tool to investigate related demand patterns

Cities all around the world are observing increasing levels of urban freight activities owing to the growth of internet shopping combined to the traditional distribution to shops, creating additional problems ...

Authors: Marco Diana, Miriam Pirra and Andree Woodcock

Learning from the real practices of users of a smart carpooling app

This paper explores the real practices of users of a smart carpooling application that learns their mobility habits and predicts their future trips to propose relevant matches.

Authors: Sonia Adelé and Corinne Dionisio

Between fairness, welfare and feasibility: an approach for applying different distributive principles in transport evaluation

For assessing the desirability and feasibility of major transport projects decision makers often recur to ex-ante evaluation methods such as cost-benefit analysis or multi-criteria analysis. In these methods p...

Authors: Geert te Boveldt, Imre Keseru and Cathy Macharis

Analyzing passenger and freight vehicle movements from automatic-Number plate recognition camera data

Modern urban-transport planning requires evidence-based insights into current transport flows to better understand the needs and impacts of policymaking. Urban transport includes passenger and freight vehicles...

Authors: Sheida Hadavi, Heleen Buldeo Rai, Sara Verlinde, He Huang, Cathy Macharis and Tias Guns

Identifying user classes for shared and automated mobility services

New forms of shared mobility such as free-floating car-sharing services and shared automated vehicles have the potential to change urban travel behaviour. In this paper, we identify potential user classes for ...

Authors: Konstanze Winter, Oded Cats, Karel Martens and Bart van Arem

Variation of performance, of self-reported alertness and effort as a function of low doses of alcohol and of driving experience

Alcohol is the most frequent detected substance in the automobile fatal crashes but its precise mode of action on mental state is not always clear, notably when combined with lack of driving experience. The ai...

Authors: Catherine Berthelon and Edith Galy

Multimodal warning design for take-over request in conditionally automated driving

Humans are required to respond to a vehicle’s request to take-over anytime even when they are not responsible for monitoring driving environments in automated driving, e.g., a SAE level-3 vehicle. Thus, a safe...

Authors: Hanna Yun and Ji Hyun Yang

How does road marking in horizontal curves influence driving behaviour?

Given the inconsistent application of various road markings on Czech rural roads, there is a question “How does road marking in horizontal curves influence driving behaviour?” The study objective was to assess...

Authors: Pavel Havránek, Robert Zůvala, Jakub Špaňhel, Adam Herout, Veronika Valentová and Jiří Ambros

Satisfaction with general functionality and safety of travel in relation to residential environment and satisfaction with transport modes

The objective of this paper is to study 1) do people living in certain residential environments express more dissatisfaction with general functionality and safety of travel, 2) is dissatisfaction with general ...

Authors: Hanne Tiikkaja, Heikki Liimatainen and Markus Pöllänen

Welfare consequences of request stops at transport services with low demand

Demand-responsive transport is an alternative to fixed-route, fixed-scheduled transport services in low-demand areas.

Authors: Finn Jørgensen and Gisle Solvoll

The role of numerical tests in assessing road restraint system functionality

Key to understanding the needs and building road infrastructure management tools to prevent and mitigate run-off-road accidents is to identify hazards and their sources which are a result of wrong design, cons...

Authors: Marcin Budzynski, Kazimierz Jamroz, Krzysztof Wilde, Wojciech Witkowski, Lukasz Jelinski and Dawid Bruski

Prevalence and factors associated with pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries: case Finland

The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries (MAIS3+) in traffic, and to identify differences in the factors associated with the injury severities. The study...

Authors: Fanny Malin, Anne Silla and Miloš N. Mladenović

Correction to: Improving inbound logistic planning for large-scale real-world routing problems: a novel ant-colony simulation-based optimization

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Giovanni Calabrò, Vincenza Torrisi, Giuseppe Inturri and Matteo Ignaccolo

What are the factors and needs promoting mobility-as-a-service? Findings from the Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS)

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a service that supports customers’ transportation needs by providing information and ticketing for a multitude of transport modes in one interface; thus, buy potentially fosteri...

Authors: Raphael Hoerler, Anna Stünzi, Anthony Patt and Andrea Del Duce

User rating and acceptance of attention-adaptive driver safety systems

Current statistics show that distraction is a central cause of traffic accidents. Safety systems with distance control currently available on the market have great potential for preventing accidents and signif...

Authors: Betina Weber, Manfred Dangelmaier, Frederik Diederichs and Dieter Spath

Application of Self-Organizing Maps on Time Series Data for identifying interpretable Driving Manoeuvres

Understanding the usage of a product is essential for any manufacturer in particular for further development. Driving style of the driver is a significant factor in the usage of a city bus. This work proposes ...

Authors: Sivakkumaran Lakshminarayanan

Correction to: The impact of driving homogeneity due to automation and cooperation of vehicles on uphill freeway sections

In the original publication of this article [1], the whole Abstract section is revised as below. This is an error caused during the production stage.

Authors: Michail Makridis, Ludovic Leclercq, Konstantinos Mattas and Biagio Ciuffo

Evaluating the performance of the vessel train concept

To improve safety and address current employment challenges in the waterborne transport sector, the VT concept is developed. The VT is a vessel platooning concept that is semi-autonomous. The VT is composed by...

Authors: Hilde Meersman, Eleni Moschouli, Loghman NanwayBoukani, Christa Sys, Edwin van Hassel, Thierry Vanelslander and Eddy Van de Voorde

Enabling a green just-in-time navigation through stakeholder collaboration

The shipping industry has grown spectacularly during the last 50 years transporting nowadays, approximately, the 80–90% of goods worldwide. However, maritime transport remains a highly inefficient industry. On...

Authors: Jordi Arjona Aroca, José Andrés Giménez Maldonado, Gabriel Ferrús Clari, Nuria Alonso i García, Lucía Calabria and Jorge Lara

Improving inbound logistic planning for large-scale real-world routing problems: a novel ant-colony simulation-based optimization

This paper presents the first results of an agent-based model aimed at solving a Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) for inbound logistics using a novel Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm, develope...

Authors: Giovanni Calabrò, Vincenza Torrisi, Giuseppe Inturri and Matteo Ignaccolo

Which factors affect willingness-to-pay for automated vehicle services? Evidence from public road deployment in Stockholm, Sweden

Travel demand and travel satisfaction of a transport service are affected by user perceptions of the service quality attributes, and such perceptions should be included in studying user willingness-to-pay (WTP...

Authors: Pei Nen Esther Chee, Yusak O. Susilo, Yiik Diew Wong and Anna Pernestål

A systematic review of indicators to assess the sustainability of road infrastructure projects

This study aims to examine to what extent sustainability has been incorporated into assessments of road infrastructure projects. It identifies promising approaches that include indicators reflecting core susta...

Authors: Gede B. Suprayoga, Martha Bakker, Patrick Witte and Tejo Spit

Internal versus external European air market realities: the competitive divide

This paper looks at how ongoing attempts to improve air market competitiveness in Europe are challenged by the differing internal and external realities that exist. Europe’s internal multilateral single air ma...

Authors: Darren Ellis

The energy impact of adaptive cruise control in real-world highway multiple-car-following scenarios

Surging acceptance of adaptive cruise control (ACC) across the globe is further escalating concerns over its energy impact. Two questions have directed much of this project: how to distinguish ACC driving beha...

Authors: Yinglong He, Michail Makridis, Georgios Fontaras, Konstantinos Mattas, Hongming Xu and Biagio Ciuffo

Speedometer monitoring when driving with a speed warning system

The study investigated how a speed warning system influence drivers’ speedometer monitoring, and how drivers respond when they receive a speed warning. With a speed warning system, drivers may pay more attenti...

Authors: Esko Lehtonen, Neha Malhotra, Nicola J. Starkey and Samuel G. Charlton

The impact of driving homogeneity due to automation and cooperation of vehicles on uphill freeway sections

This work presents a microsimulation study on the topic on an uphill network, regarding the potential impact of AVs and Cooperative-AVs (Coop-AVs or CAVs), vehicles able to cooperate with the infrastructure. T...

Authors: Michail Makridis, Ludovic Leclercq, Konstantinos Mattas and Biagio Ciuffo

Impacts of increasing maximum truck weight – case Finland

Finnish government allowed in October 2013 operating high capacity vehicles (HCV) with a maximum weight limit of 76 t on Finnish roads. An analysis on how HCVs have affected the Finnish road freight transport ...

Authors: Heikki Liimatainen, Markus Pöllänen and Lasse Nykänen

Trade-offs in traffic: does being mainly a car driver or a cyclist affect adaptive behaviour while driving and cycling?

Road users, such as cyclists and car drivers, are constantly adapting to each other and to the road infrastructure. This study aimed to investigate what trade-offs can be observed when drivers and cyclists ada...

Authors: Sara Nygårdhs, Katja Kircher and Björn J. E. Johansson