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Title: Web-GIS Based Bridge Information Database Visualization Analytics and Distributed Sensing Framework
Author: Tong, Yonghong
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The national bridge system plays very important role in society operations ensuring mobilities that can sustain social and economic growth. Recent increasingly growing concerns about the safety of existing bridges are shared by highway agencies at...

Title: Vehicle Velocity Trajectory Optimization in Non-deterministic Environments
Author: Borek, John
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Optimally modulating a vehicle's speed profile through highway, urban, and suburban environments can result in pronounced fuel savings, particularly with heavy-duty vehicles. However, existing strategies for speed profile optimization traditionall...

Title: Transit Riders and Access to Bus Service: A Neighborhood Analysis
Author: Wells, Kirstin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Public administration, Transportation--Planning
Description: Intra-jurisdictional delivery of publicly provided services often results in observable differences in service levels that vary by spatial subunit (neighborhood). These variations are related to the socio-demographic characteristics of neighborhoo...

Title: TERRESTRIAL LIDAR-BASED BRIDGE EVALUATION
Author: Liu, Wanqiu
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Considering the over half million bridges in the US state highway system, more than 70% of which were built before 1935, it is of little wonder that bridge maintenance and management is facing severe challenges and the significant funding scarcity...

Title: Reduced Order Aerodynamic Model Development of Road/Race Vehicles
Author: Halterman, Jaclynn
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Aerospace engineering
Description: This research systematically develops a real-time capable reduced order aerodynamic model of a race vehicle to predict the aerodynamic characterization of a transient vehicle. The aerodynamic model modularly combines the quasi steady state aerodyn...

Title: Predictive Energy Function Based Power System Transient Stability Assessment and Improvement
Author: SAHAMI, AMIRREZA
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Transient stability assessment and improvement are critical for power grid operation. It deals with the assessment of transient behavior of the power grid (especially the generators) when subjected to large disturbances. State-of-the-art approache...

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: Optimal Centralized And Decentralized Management Strategies For Electric Vehicles Considering Customer Demand, Road And Electric Grid Infrastructure
Author: Aygun, Ali Ihsan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The electrical grid is a complex network becoming increasingly linked with smart devices and energy sources, such as electric vehicles, appliances, grid support systems, and renewable energy resources. However, the power delivery systems in use to...

Title: Modelling and Control of Multi-Vehicle Traffic Networks using an Integrated VISSIM-MATLAB Platform
Author: Shindgikar, Shubhankar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Transportation
Description: This thesis aims to optimize the road traffic network by using different control algorithms and techniques to monitor road driving conditions and improve road safety. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have paved the way for opportunities in...

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: 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: Integrated Water Management and Green Infrastructure Retrofits in Urban Areas: Perspectives on Energy Savings, Water Quality Improvements and Economic Incentives
Author: Malinowski, Patricia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Environmental economics, Water resources development--Management, Environmental management
Description: This research investigates various aspects of implementing integrated water management (IWM) measures in urban areas, with a specific focus on green infrastructure (GI) retrofits. Three major perspectives are examined in relation to water resource...

Title: Insight into the Aerodynamics of Race and Idealized Road Vehicles Using Scale-Resolved and Scale-Averaged CFD Simulations
Author: Misar, Adit
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Aerodynamics has long been perceived as the single most important aspect amongst all factors that contribute to the on-track performance of a racecar. As such, in all forms of motorsports, race teams dedicate a significant portion of their budget ...

Title: Environmental Sustainability of Light Rail Transit in Urban Areas
Author: Sarmiento, Hazel Marie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Sustainability, Transportation--Planning
Description: Light rail transit is considered as an environmentally sustainable transit option based on perceptions of its possible benefits on minimizing air pollution, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This study seeks to determine how light r...

Title: Designing Hierarchical Infrastructure-based Traffic Control Frameworks for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Traffic Networks
Author: Karimi Shahri, Pouria
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research aims to develop, enhance, and validate infrastructure-based hierarchical control framework designs for improving the mobility of large-scale heterogeneous traffic networks. This research defines heterogeneity as a multi-vehicle traff...

Title: Design Considerations for Intermittently Connected Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Rajib, Md Majharul Islam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequ...

Title: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: CONTROLLED GROWTH AND PROPERTY STUDY OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED NANOSTRUCTURES OF MOLYBDENUM OXIDE
Author: Razmyar, Soheil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Nanotechnology
Description: Molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) is a versatile semiconductor material with a wide range of potential applications in photocatalysis, electrochromism/photochromism, sensing, and energy storage. Its highly anisotropic layered structure with weak van der ...