Improving the efficiency of energy consumption, conversion, and transmission on merchant ships has become a critical challenge due to rising fuel costs, increasingly stringent environmental regulations, and the introduction of operational efficiency...
Thailand’s Western New Year and Songkran festivals witness a surge in traffic crashes due to increased travel volume. This study explores risk factors influencing crash injury severity during these holidays (2017–2019). Crash data is anal...
It is known that rainfall leads to a reduction in driving speed. However, the results of various studies are inconsistent regarding the amount of speed reduction. In this study, we combine high-resolution radar-based rainfall estimates for three days...
Building upon the methodological synthesis presented in Part I, this second part of our two-part survey examines how operations research (OR) models have been applied to capture the broader dynamics of intermodal transport (IMT) in pursuit of decarbo...
This study investigates left-turn safety at urban intersections using surrogate safety measures derived from field video observations. Time-to-Collision (TTC) among motorized traffic and Post-Encroachment Time (PET) among pedestrian and motorized tra...
This research focuses on the challenge of measuring the socio-economic impact of road traffic accidents (RTAs) by examining how losses are redistributed across major institutional sectors, including the government, businesses, and households. Unlike...
The sustainable management of marine resources requires accurate knowledge of fishing activity patterns and their interaction with coastal infrastructure. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are increasingly applied in the maritime domain, where...
The development of the railway system has emerged as an imperative in strengthening the freight transportation system, particularly considering the inherent restrictions of road transport. Road congestion, limited carrying capacity, cost inefficienci...
The convergence of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) is giving rise to the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), a key enabler of next-generation intelligent transportation systems. This survey provides a comprehensive analysi...
This study develops a Smart Mobility Index (SMI) tailored to the 17 Local Government Units (LGUs) of Metro Manila to evaluate their readiness to adopt integrated, efficient, and technology-enabled mobility systems. While global smart mobility indices...
Road transport across Asia is undergoing rapid motorisation and exemplifies growing road safety challenges, with rising accident rates closely linked to driver behaviour. Recent reports indicate that Vietnamese drivers often perceive risk as manageab...
Pedestrian safety remains a pressing challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where global predictive models often misrepresent local realities. This study tests the hypothesis that global predictive models, such as the International Ro...
Metro systems are high-capacity urban rail networks designed to provide fast, reliable, and efficient transportation. This article presents a comparative benchmarking study of six leading metro systems in Brazil and six prominent international cases,...
Fully integrated airport access requires managing many aspects from both the passengers’ and the operational point of view. It is noted that air passenger preferences, influenced by distance, time, and other travel-related factors, are one of t...
Bike-sharing use has been growing because it improves personal mobility, offers an alternative to walking, and strengthens connections to transit. Demand forecasting is crucial for bike-sharing services because it enables operators to anticipate empt...
Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is widely considered as a crucial step in decarbonizing urban mobility. While access to private ownership of EVs is socially and spatially still highly unequal, shared electric mobility has been suggested as a more...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are central to low-carbon urban mobility, but range anxiety persists. In real fleet operations, vehicles are rarely discharged to low State-of-Charge (SOC), so the remaining driving range (RDR) labels are incomplete, hindering...
Growing concerns over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have positioned hydrogen fuel cell buses (HFCBs) as a promising alternative for sustainable urban mobility. By eliminating tailpipe emissions and enabling significant reductions in well-to-wheel GH...
Accurate determination of a vehicle’s centre of gravity (CoG) is fundamental to driving dynamics, safety, and engineering design. However, existing static CoG estimation methods often neglect tyre deflection and detailed wheel geometry, which c...
The advancement of automated driving technologies offers potential safety and efficiency gains, yet safety remains the primary barrier to higher-level deployment. Failures in automated driving systems rarely result from a single technical malfunction...
This study develops a compact elasticity-based framework for assessing how autonomous truck adoption influences corridor-level performance, freight demand, modal competition, and CO2 emissions in multimodal freight Intelligent Transportation Systems....
Higher education institutions face a critical methodological challenge in pursuing net-zero commitments: Within the amount ofhe emissions related to Scope 3, including indirect emissions from water consumption, waste disposal, business travel, and mo...
A comfortable, reliable, safe and environmentally friendly high-speed train journey that saves time and offers an unforgettable experience for passengers is not a dream. Passengers can enjoy panoramic views, delicious cuisine and use their mobile dev...
Energy-efficient driving is essential for reducing the environmental impacts of road transport, especially for electric passenger vehicles. This research aims to build a data-driven behavioral analysis and energy-consumption evaluation model. The mod...
This study analyzes the potential impact of integrating bicycles with the Quito Metro transport system to address connectivity barriers and improve urban mobility. Based on data from surveys carried out on students of the Central University, it was i...
Short-term traffic prediction is vital for intelligent transportation systems, enabling adaptive congestion control, real-time signal management, and dynamic route planning for autonomous vehicles (AVs). This study introduces a custom Transformer-bas...
In medium-sized cities, daily travel often follows routine patterns, which may lead to suboptimal route choices. This study examines such trips and evaluates them to assess the influence of travel information. The research is motivated by the growing...
The accurate simulative reconstruction of blind spot accidents requires innovative simulation methods. The objective of this paper is to analyze the avoidability of a specific blind spot accident and assess the impact of various parameters as if an a...
On 1 November 2024, the Federal Highway Administration issued a final rule updating the 23 CFR Part 630 Subpart J on Work Zone Safety and Mobility, detailing performance measures and reporting requirements. The rule suggests that state agencies shoul...
Traffic flow anomalies represent significant deviations from normal traffic behavior and disrupt the smooth operation of transportation systems. These may appear as unusually high or low traffic volumes compared to historical trends. Unexpectedly hig...
Electromobility provides an effective solution for developing countries to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, enhance energy security, and increase environmental sustainability. The current study evaluates the feasibility of implementing electric veh...
The rapid growth of urban areas has increased the need for more efficient methods of pavement inspection and maintenance. However, conventional techniques remain slow, labor-intensive, and limited in spatial coverage, and their performance is strongl...
The rise in energy demand of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is an increasing burden on the grid. Solutions proposed to reduce grid load, for example, storing surplus energy from EVs, are costly and do not address associated challenges such as communication...
In a fully autonomous vehicle, the driver becomes a passenger, free to adopt different seating positions. This change challenges traditional passive safety systems—such as seatbelts, airbags and seat design—that are optimised for a forwar...
Urban floods frequently occur in Southeast Asian cities, causing extensive road disruptions and a significant decline in overall urban mobility. To effectively adapt to such conditions, it is crucial to understand how residents modify their travel be...
The emergence of self-driving vehicles raises not only technological challenges, but also profound moral and legal challenges, especially when the decisions made by these vehicles can affect human lives. The aim of this study is to examine the moral...
This paper presents the findings of a dual-approach research study conducted for the Utah Department of Transportation to evaluate the effectiveness of variable message sign (VMS) treatments on Utah roadways. The study aimed to determine the impact o...
This study critically examines the technological feasibility, regulatory challenges, and societal acceptance of Pilotless Passenger Aircraft (PPAs) in commercial aviation. A mixed-methods design integrated quantitative passenger surveys (n = 312) and...
Urban population growth and expanding economic activity have intensified the demand on transportation networks, resulting in higher traffic volumes, increased spillbacks, and a declining level of service (LOS). Signalized intersections, as critical c...
The continuous tightening of European regulatory requirements, particularly under the General Safety Regulation (GSR), has considerably increased the scope and cost of proving ground testing required for the validation of Advanced Driver Assistance S...
Vehicle re-identification (re-ID) across disparate sensing modalities remains a fundamental challenge for transportation research. In this work, we introduce a deep multi-view vehicle re-ID framework that leverages Siamese networks to compare pairs o...
As part of transportation planning processes, simulators are used to mirror real-world situations to test new policies and evaluate infrastructure changes. In practice, simulator selection has often been based on availability rather than on technical...
The production and sales figures for electric vehicles are showing a steady upward trend, clearly indicating the growing importance of sustainability goals. A unique historical situation has developed in the US: the owner of the leading electric car...
This paper reviews the role of high-speed rail (HSR) and other fast rail technologies in decarbonising inter-urban transport. It first outlines the global deployment of HSR, with particular emphasis on Europe and China, and situates these networks wi...
The attractiveness of public transport services plays an important role in urban sustainability as the greater use of public transport reduces individual transport and thereby the amount of congestion, noise, and pollution. However, in order to make...
Accurate prediction of road traffic crash severity is essential for developing data-driven safety strategies and optimizing resource allocation. This study presents a predictive modeling framework that utilizes Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting (...
As ports evolve to meet sustainability targets, seamless coordination between road and rail operations becomes fundamental to success. This study addresses the Train Loading Planning Problem (TLPP) which focuses on assigning outbound containers to tr...
The transport sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, making its decarbonization critical for climate change mitigation efforts. The Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC) curve is a vital tool that evaluates the cost-effectiveness o...
Given the undoubtable similarities between the dynamic behavior of the vehicular traffic flow in terms of its response to boundary condition alterations dictated in the form of obstacles, and the specific case of supersonic compressible fluid flow fi...
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rail infrastructure are increasingly examined in response to climate policy demands. Yet current assessment methods, such as ISO-based LCAs, FTIP, “Standardisierte Bewertung”, EN 15804 with c-PCR 023, a...
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