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The future of freight transport

Authors: Cathy Macharis and Silvio Nocera

Correction to: The vibrations induced by surface irregularities in road pavements – a Matlab® approach

After publication of this article [1], it is noticed the article contained an error with eq. 12, the c_s should be squared. The correct eq. 12 is provided below:

Authors: M. Agostinacchio, D. Ciampa and S. Olita

Synchromodality in the Physical Internet – dual sourcing and real-time switching between transport modes

Synchromodality, also referred to as “synchronized intermodality”, employs multiple transport modes in a flexible, dynamic way in order to induce a modal shift towards more environmentally friendly transport m...

Authors: Nina Lemmens, Joren Gijsbrechts and Robert Boute

The effect of road safety education on the relationship between Driver’s errors, violations and accidents: Slovenian case study

One of the pillars of road safety strategies, in almost every country in the world, is training and education. Due to the diversity and different extents of evaluation methods, the influence of educational and...

Authors: Darja Topolšek, Dario Babić and Mario Fiolić

Planning urban pavement maintenance by a new interactive multiobjective optimization approach

Pavement maintenance is essential to prevent the deterioration of asset value and to satisfy the expectations of all stakeholders (objectives). However, the budgets are often insufficient to keep the road pave...

Authors: Maria Grazia Augeri, Salvatore Greco and Vittorio Nicolosi

Avoiding drunk driving with a push

The present study explores a novel approach for changing implicit attitudes toward drunk driving with behavioural training. Contrary to explicit attitudes, which people are consciously aware of and therefore c...

Authors: Laila Marianne Martinussen and Mikael Julius Sømhovd

Units of information on dynamic message signs: a speed pattern analysis

A single unit of information is an answer to any anticipated question a motorist may ask. Such questions include: “What happened? Where? What do I do?” This study, a first of its kind, analyzes the optimum num...

Authors: Snehanshu Banerjee, Mansoureh Jeihani, Nashid K. Khadem and Danny D. Brown

Location, location, relocation: how the relocation of offices from suburbs to the inner city impacts commuting on foot and by bike

In recent decades there has been increasing focus on the development of compact and accessible urban environments, in part based on the reasoning that this can help to reduce the transportation requirements of...

Authors: Ray Pritchard and Yngve Frøyen

Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries

Cities crave innovative logistics solutions dealing with the requirements of the ‘on demand economy’. The paper estimates the willingness to act as a crowdshipper (supply) and to buy a crowdshipping service (d...

Authors: Valerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Marialisa Nigro and Simone Serafini

Compositional data techniques for the analysis of the container traffic share in a multi-port region

The statistical techniques based on compositional data are applied to investigate the evolution of the traffic share of the container throughput in a multi-port system. Compositional vectors are those which co...

Authors: M. Grifoll, M. I. Ortego and J. J. Egozcue

Measuring delivery route cost trade-offs between electric-assist cargo bicycles and delivery trucks in dense urban areas

Completing urban freight deliveries is increasingly a challenge in congested urban areas, particularly when delivery trucks are required to meet time windows. Depending on the route characteristics, Electric A...

Authors: Manali Sheth, Polina Butrina, Anne Goodchild and Edward McCormack

The impact of distance on mode choice in freight transport

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of distance on choosing between intermodal rail-road and unimodal road transport and to examine the hypothesis that distance is an important factor influencin...

Authors: Borut Zgonc, Metka Tekavčič and Marko Jakšič

A spatial framework for Planning station-based bike sharing systems

Urban bike sharing systems (BSS) are currently gaining momentum worldwide. They are regarded as integrated elements of public transport systems and perfectly anticipate the societal trend of the sharing econom...

Authors: Martin Loidl, Ursula Witzmann-Müller and Bernhard Zagel

A shift-share based tool for assessing the contribution of a modal shift to the decarbonisation of inland freight transport

Resulting from the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015, the European Union’s (EU) current climate and energy objective is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% below 1990 level...

Authors: Olaf Jonkeren, Jan Francke and Johan Visser

Intermodal transportation of full and empty containers in harbor-inland regions based on revenue management

The transport of full containers and repositioning of empty containers are essential for the operation of a container logistic enterprise. In a large inland region, railway and road transportation take their o...

Authors: Zixuan Peng, Huaizhu Wang, Wensi Wang and Yonglei Jiang

Feature selection and extraction in spatiotemporal traffic forecasting: a systematic literature review

A spatiotemporal approach that simultaneously utilises both spatial and temporal relationships is gaining scientific interest in the field of traffic flow forecasting. Accurate identification of the spatiotemp...

Authors: Dmitry Pavlyuk

Heterogeneity of logistics facilities: an issue for a better understanding and planning of the location of logistics facilities

In the last few years, the issue of the location of logistics activities emerged in the literature, in Europe and in the United States, especially from the perspective of logistics spatial dynamics as logistic...

Authors: Adeline Heitz, Pierre Launay and Adrien Beziat

DEA Malmquist productivity index based on a double-frontier slacks-based model: Iranian road safety assessment

Many governments in the developing world face the social and economic consequences of road accidents and mortalities. Hence, more precise evaluation of regional programs to reduce road fatalities has been a co...

Authors: S. S. Ganji and A. A. Rassafi

Investigating the preferences of individuals on public transport innovations using the Maximum Difference Scaling method

Public Transport users have diverse mobility needs and preferences on how to meet those needs. While this is consistent with typical standards for both academic scholars and practitioners, less is known about ...

Authors: Stelios Tsafarakis, Panagiotis Gkorezis, Dimitrios Nalmpantis, Evangelos Genitsaris, Andreas Andronikidis and Efthymios Altsitsiadis

Evaluation of a momentum based impact model in frontal car collisions for the prospective assessment of ADAS

The advent of active safety systems calls for the development of appropriate testing methods that are able to assess their capabilities to avoid accidents or lower impact speeds and thus, to mitigate the injur...

Authors: Stefan Smit, Ernst Tomasch, Harald Kolk, Michael Alois Plank, Jürgen Gugler and Hannes Glaser

Safety assessment of Czech motorways and national roads

Czech motorways and national roads form the primary road network, which is critical in terms of safety. To be able to rationally manage network safety in both planning and operation stages, quality network-wid...

Authors: Jiří Ambros, Richard Turek, Milan Brich and Jan Kubeček

Large-scale spatial population synthesis for Denmark

The recent development in micro-based transport models is a major step towards an improved understanding of transport demand and its underlying drivers. By adapting a detailed geographical resolution level and...

Authors: Jeppe Rich

Flexible car–following models for mixed traffic and weak lane–discipline conditions

Heterogeneous mixture of vehicle types and lack of lane discipline are common characteristics of cities in the developing countries. These conditions lead to driving manoeuvres that combine both longitudinal a...

Authors: Vasileia Papathanasopoulou and Constantinos Antoniou

Fuzzy maximum capacity and occupancy time rate measurements in urban railway lines

Nowadays, railway transport capacity is an important bottleneck for many railway operators that face its ever-increasing demand. This poses a challenge to existing lines as operation under conditions close to ...

Authors: L. M. Navarro, A. Fernandez-Cardador and A. P. Cucala

Topical collection on the influence of Intelligent Transport Systems on vulnerable road user accidents

Authors: Johan Scholliers

Intelligent personalized ADAS warnings

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have been among the key innovations in the automotive market for over a decade, since they promote traffic safety. This tendency is strengthened even more lately, with...

Authors: Maria C. Panou

Transport indicator analysis and comparison of 151 urban areas, based on open source data

The accurate analysis and comparison of transport indicators from a large variety of urban areas can help to evaluate the performance of different adopted transport policies. This paper attempts to determine i...

Authors: Ali Enes Dingil, Joerg Schweizer, Federico Rupi and Zaneta Stasiskiene

Being ready for the next Uber: can local government reinvent itself?

The history of Uber’s interaction with local and national governments is surveyed to provide a case study for the wider issue of the governance of private-sector involvement, technological innovation and disru...

Authors: Tom Cohen

Using an integrated order picking-vehicle routing problem to study the impact of delivery time windows in e-commerce

European e-commerce sales are increasing every year. Nowadays, customers buy more frequently online in smaller quantities. Handling this large amount of customer orders puts the logistic activities of the supp...

Authors: Katrien Ramaekers, An Caris, Stef Moons and Teun van Gils

Accommodating urban freight in city planning

Authors: Ivan Sanchez-Diaz and Michael Browne

Development of an assessment model for predicting public electric vehicle charging stations

Deploying an adequate electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure to support the increasing EV market is one of the major strategic goals of the U.S. government. This requires a well-designed EV charging net...

Authors: Shekar Viswanathan, Jeffrey Appel, Lixia Chang, Irina V. Man, Rami Saba and Ahmed Gamel

Options for reducing external costs from freight transport along the Brenner corridor

The Brenner is the most heavily travelled transalpine corridor in terms of freight transport. The current modal split tends heavily towards road (71% road – 29% rail), with significant repercussions in terms o...

Authors: Silvio Nocera, Federico Cavallaro and Olga Irranca Galati

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

Digibus©: results from the first self-driving shuttle trial on a public road in Austria

From April to November 2017, the non-profit research organisation Salzburg Research conducted the “Digibus© 2017” trial, the first trial of a self-driving shuttle on a public road in Austria. The shuttle from ...

Authors: Karl Rehrl and Cornelia Zankl

Analyzing urban traffic demand distribution and the correlation between traffic flow and the built environment based on detector data and POIs

This paper aims to determine the urban traffic flow spatiotemporal characteristics and correlation with the built environment using SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) and POIs (Point of Interes...

Authors: Shiguang Wang, Dexin Yu, Xiaogang Ma and Xue Xing

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