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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: Evaluation of Multiple Feedstocks for Codigestion
Author: Chouinard, Tracy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Environmental engineering
Description: In the U.S., a move toward the use of anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies for solid waste management has been slow. However, recently, a number of factors have coalesced to renew interest in AD because of its potential to produce renewable energ...

Title: Evidence-Based Human-Centric Lighting Assist Tool towards a Healthier Lit Environment
Author: Amirazar, Armin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Light is an essential element of building design that influences human health, comfort, performance, and well-being. Humans' daily rhythms in behavior and physiology, such as wake/sleep patterns, have evolved under natural light-dark cycles over m...

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: 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: 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 ...

Title: USE OF MULTISENSOR DATA IN MODELING FREEWAY TRAVEL TIME: VARIABILITY ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION
Author: Chen, Zhen
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: Nowadays anonymous vehicle probe data have been greatly improved in both data coverage and data fidelity. Thus, vehicle probe data have become a reliable source for freeway travel time analysis. The travel time variability is highly complex as it ...