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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: 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: 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: 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 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...

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: Optimal variable speed limit control for mixed traffic flows in a connected and autonomous vehicle environment
Author: Yu, Miao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Traffic demand grows rapidly over the past decades around the world, which leads to severe traffic congestion problems. Congestion has numerous negative effects, such as wasting time of drivers and passengers, increasing delays, decreasing travel ...

Title: Robust Condition Monitoring for Modern Power Conversion
Author: Anderson, Jason
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The entire US electrical grid contains assets valued at approximately $800 billion, and many of these assets are nearing the end of their design lifetimes. In addition, there is a growing dependence upon power electronics in mission-critical asset...

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 ...