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- Title
- A Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
- Author
- Najaf, Pooya
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning
- Description
- The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...
- Title
- A TARGETED APPROACH TO PROVIDE WEATHER GUIDANCE FOR GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS BASED ON ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE AND PERSONAL WEATHER MINIMUMS
- Author
- Dennstaedt, Scott
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Meteorology, Atmospheric science
- Description
- Over the last two decades, general aviation pilots in the United States, especially those who fly light fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, have portrayed high rates of vulnerability to weather-related accidents. This high vulnerability rate is i...
- Title
- Advancing Highway Safety: Embedded-Edge AI for Real-Time Applications
- Author
- Katariya, Vinit Amrutlal
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Transportation
- Description
- This dissertation presents the systematic design and development of datasets, algorithms, and an AI pipeline specifically curated for real-time trajectory prediction and anomaly detection in highway environments. These innovations are meticulously...
- Title
- Advancing Safety in Roadway Work Zones with Worker-Centred Augmented Reality: Assessing the Feasibility, Usability, And Effectiveness Of AR-Enabled Warning Systems
- Author
- Sabeti, Sepehr
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Computer science
- Description
- In recent years, there has been a concerning increase in serious injuries and fatalities within highway work zones, deviating from a previously declining trend. While innovative technologies offer potential for improving safety, the specific needs...
- 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
- Capturing Pedestrian-Vehicle Conflicts Using Computer Vision: Predicting the Severity of Conflicts and Examining the Effects of Pedestrian, Vehicle and Signal Timing-Related Factors
- Author
- Kalambay, Panick
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- According to crash statistics, the United States witnessed 6,205 pedestrian fatalities and 76,000 injuries on its roads in 2019. These numbers are still unacceptably high and urge the need for proactive measures to mitigate pedestrian-vehicle conf...
- Title
- Distance friction and spatial interaction dynamics of international freight transportation
- Author
- Jung, Paul
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Transportation
- Description
- The modern economy runs with heavy reliance on the free flow of goods across the international logistic and supply chain. Advances in international freight transportation systems supported by intermodal integration, freight containerization, hub-a...
- 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
- 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 Light Rail Investment on Commercial Landscapes in Transit Neighborhoods
- Author
- Shepard, Elina
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Geography, City planning
- Description
- City governments across the country invest in rail transit to provide localized access to vital facilities for vulnerable groups of their populations, and to encourage development around transit lines and stations (Transit Oriented Development). S...
- 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
- 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
- MODELING ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC FOR LOCAL FUNCTIONALLY CLASSIFIED ROADS
- Author
- Mathew, Sonu
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation
- Description
- The rapid increase in population, the growth in demand for travel, and the subsequent traffic congestion and road safety challenges call for better utilization of existing road infrastructure. A federally funded state-administered program known as...
- 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 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...