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Title: Capturing Pedestrian-Vehicle Conflicts Using Computer Vision: Predicting the Severity of Conflicts and Examining the Effects of Pedestrian, Vehicle and Signal Timing-Related Factors
Author: Kalambay, Panick
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: According to crash statistics, the United States witnessed 6,205 pedestrian fatalities and 76,000 injuries on its roads in 2019. These numbers are still unacceptably high and urge the need for proactive measures to mitigate pedestrian-vehicle conf...

Title: Experimental and Computational Study of Performance of Highway Embankments
Author: Hassani, Mehrdad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: Highway embankments require careful selection of the borrow material and construction practices. Most highway agencies in North America specify the soil selection criteria based on gradation or Atterberg limits. Furthermore, current construction p...

Title: Modeling Bicycle-Vehicle Crash Frequency on Urban Roads
Author: Mukoko, Kanya
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, City planning
Description: Bicyclists and motorists make mistakes that contribute to traffic crashes involving bicyclists on urban roads. The likelihood of a bicyclist being severely injured or killed daily in traffic crashes is creating fear, anxiety, and becoming a potent...

Title: Modeling Freeway Level-of-Service based on Travel Time and Travel Time Reliability
Author: Imran, Md. Shah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, City planning
Description: The assessment of operational performance is a challenge for the local transportation agencies and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) due to the dynamic nature in traffic movement. As demand approaches to the capacity of a roadway (or of t...

Title: Modeling and Identifying Factors Associated with Fatal Crashes Involving Vehicles with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Author: Gajera, Hardik
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Recent advancements in vehicular technology are expected to enhance traffic safety by either warning the drivers or by automating the tasks related to driving to reduce the human driver’s involvement. The driver warning systems (DWSs) are designed...

Title: PERFORMANCE OF DRILLED SHAFT FOUNDATIONS SUPPORTING COASTAL MAST ARM TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND HIGHWAY SIGN STRUCTURES
Author: Rodriguez, Carlos
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Mast arm traffic signals and cantilever highway signs have an inverted L-shaped structure and this geometry results in high loading demand to their support foundations when subjected to high wind loading. This MS thesis is motivated by an NCDOT re...

Title: POST-DISASTER INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES IN EASTERN INDIA AT VISAKHAPATNAM AFTER VERY SEVERE CYCLONE HUDHUD
Author: ALHAIDER, IBRAHEEM
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: This thesis reports a systematic post-disaster assessment of structures after the Very Severe Cyclone (VSC) Hudhud in eastern India during October 2014, which is the strongest storm event to hit any Indian city. Started as a tropical storm in the ...

Title: Slope Stability Analysis of Embankment Fill Material from North Carolina Coastal Region
Author: McGovern, Ashley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering
Description: This research involved a comprehensive experimental program was carried out to study compaction characteristics and associated engineering properties of test soils from three actual NCDOT highway projects located within the coastal geologic region...