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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: 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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 ...

Title: Visibility of Two-Wheeled Motorists Approaching Left Turning Vehicles Under Nighttime Conditions
Author: Spivey, Heath
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering
Description: The number of fatal crashes on United States roadways has declined substantially since 2002, yet the number of fatalities involving two-wheeled motorists has consistently increased over the same period. Examining incidents involving a two-wheel mo...