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- Title
- A TARGETED APPROACH TO PROVIDE WEATHER GUIDANCE FOR GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS BASED ON ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE AND PERSONAL WEATHER MINIMUMS
- Author
- Dennstaedt, Scott
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Meteorology, Atmospheric science
- Description
- Over the last two decades, general aviation pilots in the United States, especially those who fly light fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, have portrayed high rates of vulnerability to weather-related accidents. This high vulnerability rate is i...
- Title
- Applying Travel Time Reliability Measures in Identifying and Ranking Freeway Bottlenecks at the Network Level
- Author
- Gong, Linfeng
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation
- Description
- The continuing growth of traffic congestion on U.S. roadways has become an increasing concern for both travelers and transportation agencies. According to the Texas Transportation Institute’s estimate, the total financial cost of congestion in the...
- Title
- EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL USE OF CROWDSOURCED BICYCLE DATA FOR CYCLING ACTIVITIES AND SAFETY ANALYSIS
- Author
- Lin, Zijing
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- Cycling, as a healthier and greener travel mode, has been encouraged for short-distance trips by city planners and policymakers. Since cycling provides an efficient way to improve public health, alleviate traffic congestion, and reduce energy cons...
- Title
- Examining Associations, Identifying Chokepoints, and Modeling Truck Travel Time Performance Measures
- Author
- Duvvuri, Sarvani
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Civil engineering
- Description
- Trucks transport a significant amount of freight tonnage and are more susceptible to complex interactions with other vehicles in a traffic stream. While traffic congestion continues to be an important ‘highway’ problem, delays in truck travel resu...
- Title
- FORECASTING TRAVEL TIME AND VARIATIONS IN TRAVEL TIME DUE TO VEHICLE ACCIDENTS IN SPATIO-TEMPORAL CONTEXT ALONG FREEWAY
- Author
- Reza, Rashid Mohammad
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
- Description
- The growth in population, technological advancements, increase in average life expectancy, and newer and fuel-efficient vehicles has led to a meteoric rise in travel demand over the past few decades. However, the road network capacity has not incr...
- Title
- Investigating the Determinants of Autonomous Vehicles and Their Potential Impacts on Travel Behaviors and Land Use Distribution
- Author
- Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning, Land use--Planning
- Description
- Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are imminent and they are not in people’s dreams now. Now the burning questions the research community is interested in include how quickly AVs would be implemented for public use, whether people would accept them, and ho...
- Title
- MODELING ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC FOR LOCAL FUNCTIONALLY CLASSIFIED ROADS
- Author
- Mathew, Sonu
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- The rapid increase in population, the growth in demand for travel, and the subsequent traffic congestion and road safety challenges call for better utilization of existing road infrastructure. A federally funded state-administered program known as...
- Title
- MODELING CRASH RISK DUE TO TRAFFIC RULE VIOLATIONS FOR EDUCATION, ENFORCEMENT AND ENGINEERING COUNTERMEASURES
- Author
- Penmetsa, Praveena
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation
- Description
- With 1.3 million deaths, motor vehicle crashes contributed to 2.2% of the total deaths in the world during 2012. Traffic rule violations are the major reason for the occurrence of crashes and fatalities world-wide. Education, enforcement and engin...
- Title
- MODELING RISK AND THE EFFECT OF AN INCREASE IN FREEWAY POSTED SPEED LIMIT ON CRASHES IN SPEED-CHANGE LANES
- Author
- Tagar, Synthia
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Statistics
- Description
- Providing adequate design standards and capacity of speed-change lane is important for merging and diverging traffic to safely complete their maneuvers. Short speed-change lanes limit the ability of merging vehicles (/diverging vehicles) to reach ...
- Title
- Modeling Operational Performance of Urban Roads with Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions
- Author
- Kodupuganti, Swapneel Rao
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation
- Description
- Several urban areas in the United States have planned for new facilities to cater to the needs of users of alternative modes of transportation (e.g., public transportation, walking, and bicycling) over the next decade. As an example, the city of C...
- Title
- Modeling and Evaluating the Safety Effectiveness of Mini-Roundabouts
- Author
- Mishra, Raunak
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation, Sustainability
- Description
- Mini-roundabouts are a type of roundabout characterized by a small diameter, and fully traversable central island and splitter islands. They are an alternative intersection design option in areas with constraints requiring additional land acquisit...
- Title
- Modeling the Crash Injury Severity in Work Zone Areas on Freeways
- Author
- Miatudila, Sr., Alain
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
- Description
- The rising frequency of crashes in work zones on American freeways is a growing issue inherently linked to the degrading state of our transportation infrastructure. As travel demand increases and our infrastructure continues to age and wear out, w...
- Title
- Modeling the Effect of a Road Construction Project on Travel Time at Link-Level
- Author
- Kukkapalli, Venu Madhav
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Statistics
- Description
- Drivers observe variation in travel time due to congestion and delay on existing transportation facilities. A road construction project has a significant effect on travel time, leading to increased congestion, delay, and driver frustration. The ef...
- Title
- Modeling the Effects of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems on Driver Behavior
- Author
- Gouribhatla, Raghuveer
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- About 38,000 fatalities are reported every year in the United States and traffic crashes (referred to as crashes) are the leading cause of deaths among people up to 54 years. Additionally, economic loss due to crashes is estimated equal to $380 mi...
- Title
- Modeling the Influence of Land Use Developments within the Vicinity of the Link and Network Characteristics on Travel Time
- Author
- Mane, Ajinkya
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Statistics, Geodesy
- Description
- From the year 2000 to the year 2010, the total population in the United States increased by 12.1%. About ~80% of the total population resides in the urban areas. The growth in the urban population influenced the urban sprawl, congestion, and, subs...
- Title
- Prediction of Defect Hotspots for Highway Maintenance Management: A Multi-asset Machine Learning Approach
- Author
- Karimzadeh, Arash
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation, Artificial intelligence
- Description
- Given multiple budget and revenue constraints that the transportation sector encounters, predictive analytics enables maintenance agencies to make effective decisions, prioritize maintenance tasks, and provide efficient life-cycle planning. To thi...
- Title
- THE USE OF MACHINE LEARNING METHOD FOR MODELING AND ANALYZING PEDESTRIAN CRASH DATA AND COMPARISONS WITH TRADITIONAL DISCRETE CHOICE METHODS
- Author
- Li, Yang
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- As one of the most vulnerable entity within the transportation system, pedestrians might face more dangers and sustain severer injuries in the traffic crashes than others. The safety of pedestrians is particularly critical within the context of co...
- Title
- The impact of connected and autonomous vehicles on the performance of superstreets
- Author
- Liu, Shaojie
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Human ecology--Study and teaching
- Description
- Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are a type of emerging technology that has promising potentials in improving many aspects of the existing transportation infrastructure, including operations, safety, and the environment. With the capabilit...
- Title
- The impact of connected and autonomous vehicles on the performance of superstreets
- Author
- Liu, Shaojie
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Human ecology--Study and teaching
- Description
- Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are a type of emerging technology that has promising potentials in improving many aspects of the existing transportation infrastructure, including operations, safety, and the environment. With the capabilit...
- Title
- Travel Time Forecasting on a Freeway Corridor: a Dynamic Information Fusion Model based on the Machine Learning Approaches
- Author
- Qiu, Bo
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
- Description
- Metropolitan areas suffer from frequent road traffic congestion not only during peak hours but also during off-peak periods. Currently, the increasing availability of vehicle probe data has made the real-time travel time prediction a reality. The ...