Currently, China’s expressway revenue and expenditure imbalance problem is serious. The development of an “Expressway Derivative Economy” (EDE) helps address expressway deficits, ensuring the expressway’s sustainable operation...
To mitigate potential safety hazards during expressway operation, safety evaluation plays a crucial role. This study develops a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model to assess the safety of expressway operations. First, an expressway operation safety...
Bridges and subgrades are the main route forms for expressways. The ideal form for passing through sandy areas remains unclear. This study aims to understand the differences in the influence of expressway bridges and subgrades on the near-surface blo...
As an important element of urban infrastructure renewal, urban expressway renewal is of great significance to improve the commuting efficiency of cities (especially metropolitan cities), strengthen the service capacity of urban road facilities, and e...
The travel patterns of foreign visitors to Japan are changing from group travel, which was the mainstream to date, to individual travel, and there has been an increase in the number of cars rented by visitors as a means of transportation. The use of...
Understanding equity and travelers’ behavior plays a key role in creating suitable strategies to promote the development of the expressway. Especially, finding clusters of expressway users could help managers provide targeted policies in order...
Finding sustainable measures for expressway financing has long been a significant issue owing to high demand for funds of expressway construction and maintenance of existing facilities. In the Chinese context of expressway financing it has become imp...
The prediction of expressway vehicle trajectories is a crucial aspect in the development of intelligent expressways. This paper proposes a novel approach, namely the W-GRU-Attention (WGA) model, which utilizes ETC transaction data to predict trajecto...
As commercial transportation complexes, expressway service buildings have large passenger flow and a poor energy-saving effect, and have become the focus of energy conservation and emissions reduction efforts in the transportation field. At the same...
Transportation infrastructure dramatically affects ecological processes. However, the environmental assessment process does not often consider how transportation impacts biodiversity, especially in ecologically fragile areas. The aim of this study wa...
12 August 2022
Many small-spacing interchanges (SSI) appear when the density of the expressway interchanges increases. However, the characteristics of traffic accidents in SSI have not been explained clearly. Therefore, this paper systematically takes the G3001 exp...
Expressway section speed can visually reflect the section operation condition, and accurate short time section speed prediction has a wide range of applications in path planning and traffic guidance. However, existing expressway speed prediction data...
China’s widely adopted expressway ETC system provides a feasible foundation for realizing co-operative vehicle–infrastructure integration, and the accuracy of ETC data, which forms the basis of this scheme, will directly affect the safety...
China’s expressways generate substantial carbon emissions annually. To mitigate these emissions, this study explores the deployment of photovoltaic (PV) modules in the available areas of expressway service areas. As critical energy consumption...
Due to the randomness and weak symmetry of traffic accidents occurring in the expressway maintenance operation area, it is difficult to use the number of traffic accidents to evaluate the safety of maintenance operation areas. In this paper, the traf...
With the aging of China’s expressway network, the number of maintenance projects continues to increase, and issues such as construction safety, driving risk, and traffic efficiency have become increasingly prominent. This paper systematically r...
Several research studies are being actively conducted on truck platooning, in which several trucks are organized in one fleet. The main advantages of truck platooning are increased traffic efficiency, improved fuel consumption and driver performance,...
Traffic congestion detection based on vehicle detection and tracking algorithms is one of the key technologies for intelligent transportation systems. However, in expressway surveillance scenarios, small vehicle size and vehicle occlusion present sev...
The expressway is an important pillar of economic development and has a significant impact on the transformation of regional industrial structure. This study analyzes the optimization of the industrial structure and spatial distribution of three indu...
The main objective of this study is to design a method for evaluating the reasonability of ramp spacing of the expressway in a specific district. The study proposes an entropy-weighted Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution...
In intercity expressway traffic, the multiplicity of available routes leads to randomness in exit selection. Random exit selection by drivers is hard to observe, and thus it is a challenge to model intercity expressway traffic sufficiently. In this p...
In recent decades, rapid industrial growth has accelerated the construction of new roads, which has led to the destruction and isolation of wildlife habitats. Newly constructed roads affect wildlife in many ways. In particular, fatal wildlife-vehicle...
8 July 2022
When traffic collisions occur on urban expressways, the consequences, including injuries, the loss of lives, and damage to properties, are more serious. However, the existing research on the severity of expressway traffic collisions has not been deep...
Expressway systems play a vital role in facilitating intercity travels for both passengers and freights, which are also a significant source of vehicle emissions within the transportation sector. This study investigates vehicle emissions from express...
The guide signs at expressway play an important role in conveying road information to drivers. To study the reasonable setting of guide signs at expressway with consecutive dense exits, firstly, a bidirectional eight-lane expressway segment model wer...
An expressway microgrid can make full use of renewable resources near the road area and enable joint carbon reduction in both transportation and energy sectors. It is important to research the optimal construction mode and capacity configuration meth...
In the Taihang Mountain Tourism Development Plan (2020–2035), the Taihang Mountain Expressway is included in the construction of the National Tourism Scenic Road around Taihang Mountain to promote the integrated development of regional transpor...
Traffic flow patterns severely impact vehicle carbon emissions. A field test was conducted in this study to obtain fuel consumption and traffic volume data under various traffic flow patterns and to explore the relationship between traffic flow patte...
The rapid generation and automatic updating of road network topology information have immense practical significance and application value for intelligent expressways. Therefore, this work proposes a novel arch-bridge topology based on an electronic...
With rapidly developing communication and autonomous-driving technology, traffic flow on road networks will change from homogeneous human-driven vehicle (HDV) traffic flow to heterogeneous mixed traffic flow (MTF) comprising HDVs, autonomous vehicles...
Seeking a straightforward and efficient method to predict expressway traffic noise, this study selected three expressway segments in Guangdong Province, China and conducted noise monitoring at ten different sites along these expressways. Data analysi...
Expressway traffic accidents often result in severe congestion, with their unpredictable nature complicating timely and effective response measures. This paper presents a comprehensive method for accurately estimating and analyzing the spatiotemporal...
An integrated construction station for an expressway is characterized by complex carbon emission sources and high carbon emission intensity. Conducting carbon emissions accounting makes possible a comprehensive understanding of these characteristics,...
As one of the important factors affecting regional economic development, expressway construction has been a concern of scholars worldwide. China’s highway construction is relatively late compared with Western developed countries, but the speed...
The causes of traffic crashes are complex and uncertain, among which the risky driving behaviors of drivers and the types of road sections in high-crash areas are all critical influencing factors. We used ArcGIS software to draw traffic heat maps und...
Traffic congestion in expressway networks has a strong negative influence on regional development. Understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of traffic congestion in expressway networks is critical for improving the exchange of products in regional p...
The conflict between the mainline and incoming traffic flow in the merging area of an urban expressway makes it easier to form a traffic bottleneck than the basic road section. When the merging bottleneck occurs, the overall efficiency is affected. T...
The number of tunnel fire accidents has increased with the scale of expressway tunnel construction and traffic flow. Due to the severity of tunnel fires, improving tunnel fire safety and reducing fire accident hazards has become a societal concern. I...
Passenger cars have emerged as a substantial segment of the vehicles traversing expressways, generating extensive traffic data on a daily basis. Accurately identifying individual vehicles and their travel patterns and characteristics is crucial in ad...
Big data from toll stations provides reliable and accurate origin-destination (OD) pair information of expressway networks. However, although the short-term traffic prediction model based on big data is being constantly improved, the volatility and n...
Aiming at the problem that the storage space and network bandwidth of expressway surveillance video are occupied largely due to data redundancy and sparse information, this paper proposes a deep compression method of expressway video depth based on c...
As one of the effective measures of intelligent traffic control, on-ramp metering is often used to improve the traffic efficiency of expressways. Existing on-ramp metering research mainly discusses expressways with right-side on-ramps. However, for u...
To reveal the impact mechanism of low-speed vehicles (LSVs) on expressway traffic safety, this paper uses the polynomial fitting method to establish evolution models of traffic density and average speed at different LSV speeds in order to explore the...
The traffic environment at the exit of the urban expressway is complex, and vehicle lane-changing behavior occurs frequently, making it prone to traffic conflict and congestion. To study the traffic conditions at the exit of the urban expressway and...
23 October 2015
Express roads are a potential source of heavy metal contamination in the surrounding environment. The Warsaw Expressway (E30) is one of the busiest roads in the capital of Poland and cuts through the ecologically valuable area (Mazowiecki Natural Lan...
An unreasonable design hourly volume (DHV) greatly impacts road facility construction costs and traffic efficiency. With the rapid rise in the tourism economy and widespread emergence of holiday travel characteristics in China, DHV applicability for...
In recent years, more and more expressways pass through the abandoned coal mine, while the surface residual subsidence of the abandoned coal mine threatens the operation safety of the expressway. It is of significance to evaluate the stability of the...
With the development of dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) technology, the introduction of wireless charging lanes (WCLs) in traffic systems is seen as a promising trend for electrified transportation. Though there has been extensive discussion a...
The research on price elasticity of demand, especially in the field of transportation, has high theoretical and application value. Based on the perspective of price elasticity of demand, the study presents the impact of adjusting expressway rates on...
Based on meteorological observations, traffic flow data and information of traffic accidents caused by fog or agglomerate fog along the expressways in Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province in China from 2012 to 2021, key impact factors including meteor...
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