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Title: ADVANCED CONSIDERATIONS IN LIDAR TECHNOLOGY: APPLICATION ENHANCEMENT, INSPECTION WORKFLOW IMPLEMENTATION AND DATA COLLECTION QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Author: Bian, Haitao
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Bridge inspection is a critical topic in infrastructure management and is facing unprecedented challenges as the public is concerned more about bridge safety after a series of bridge failures. LiDAR based remote sensing is recommended as a way in ...

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: CRONBACH'S COEFFICIENT AS A PERFORMANCE MEASURE TO ASSESS LINK-LEVEL RELIABILITY
Author: Puvvala, Ravi Kiran
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Travel time reliability is commonly used in reference to the level of consistency in transportation service for a trip, corridor, mode or route in terms of its travel time. Typically, reliability is viewed by motorists in relation to their past ex...

Title: Comparative evaluation of link travel time from different technologies and sources
Author: Pinnamaneni, Rahul Chowdary
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation--Planning
Description: Accurate travel time information is required to efficiently plan and effectively manage transportation network. Technologies and data sources such as Bluetooth detectors and INRIX offer the potential to continuously collect the data and use it for...

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: Examining the Association Between Bus Transit Reliability and Ridership
Author: Jayanthi, Lakshmi Sravya
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: The road infrastructure has not been developed at the rate of growing travel demand in many cities in the United States, mainly due to space and resource constraints. Practitioners are exploring means to increase public transportation ridership wi...

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: Geo spatial and Statistical Methods to Model Intra city Truck Crashes
Author: Pasupuleti, Naga
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in statistical ranking criteria to identify hot spots on road networks. These criteria potentially represent high crash risk zones for further engineering evaluation and safety improvement. Many s...

Title: Impact of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on Mobility of Highway Systems
Author: Liu, Pengfei
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Automated vehicles
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies are known as an effective way to improve safety and mobility of the transportation system. As a combination technology of connected vehicle and autonomous vehicle, CAVs share real time traffic da...

Title: Impacts of connected and autonomous vehicles on deep reinforcement learning controlled intersection systems
Author: Song, Li
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies could significantly change the car-following behaviors and affect the performance of the intersection systems. As it is expected to have a long transition time during which human driven vehicles ...

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 TRAVEL DEMAND AND CRASHES AT MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC LEVELS
Author: Duddu, Venkata Ramana
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, City planning, Transportation--Planning
Description: Accurate travel demand / Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) and crash predictions helps planners to plan, propose and prioritize infrastructure projects for future improvements. Existing methods are based on demographic characteristics, socio-eco...

Title: Methods to Estimate Link Level Travel Based on Spatial Effects
Author: Kusam, Prasanna
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, City planning, Transportation--Planning
Description: Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) is used in several planning, roadway design, operational and safety analyses by transportation planners and engineers. Existing methods are very complex and do not adequately address the modeling needs. Errors a...

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 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 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...