Urban road intersections play an important role in deciding the total travel time and the overall travel efficiency. In this paper, an innovative traffic grid model has been proposed, which evaluates and diagnoses the traffic status and the time dela...
The safety of at grade road intersections is a relevant issue with social, economic, and environmental implications. It is related to the behavior of a driver approaching an intersection that, in its turn, is affected by kinematic and physiological v...
Signalized urban intersections are key components of urban transportation networks. They are traditionally viewed and designed as primarily motorized traffic facilities, and thus their physical and operational designs have traditionally aimed at maxi...
As one of the unconventional intersection designs, the median U-turn (MUT) intersection design has been confirmed to have the potential to improve intersection efficiency and produce lower vehicle delays, and it has been widely applied to many urban...
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...
Urban road intersection bottleneck has become an important factor in causing traffic delay and restricting traffic efficiency. It is essential to explore the prediction of the operating performance at intersections in real-time and formulate correspo...
Many cities have built expressways to alleviate traffic congestion, among which elevated expressways are the most common form. However, traffic congestion still occurs frequently in the connecting section between the ramp of expressway and the ground...
In this paper, we introduce a quantum private set intersection (QPSI) scheme that leverages Bell states as quantum information carriers. Our approach involves encoding private sets into Bell states using unitary operations, enabling the computation o...
The assessment of collision risk at intersecting air routes is a crucial method for determining safe separation during aircraft route flights. This paper employs the Monte Carlo method to analyze the operational characteristics of aircraft on interse...
Hypersoft set theory is an extension of soft set theory and is a new mathematical tool for dealing with fuzzy problems; however, it still suffers from the parametric tools’ inadequacies. In order to boost decision-making accuracy even more, a new mix...
Dynamic scheduling of public transit is crucial for enhancing comprehensive operational benefits such as service quality and operating costs. However, uncertain passenger demands and the uncontrolled block effects of signalized intersections can lead...
Sustainability has become one of the most important goals when optimizing traffic signals. This goal is achieved through utilizing various objective functions to reduce sustainability metrics (e.g., fuel consumption and emissions). However, most avai...
Motor vehicle entrances/exits ensure the accessibility of traffic within urban construction projects, but the improper distance between adjacent sections can lead to vehicle queues at upstream or downstream intersections, causing congestion within th...
Intersection sight distance (ISD) requirements, currently designed for driver-operated vehicles (DVs), will be affected once automated vehicles (AVs) enter the driving environment. This paper examines the ISD for intersections with a yield control on...
Smarandache defined a neutrosophic set to handle problems involving incompleteness, indeterminacy, and awareness of inconsistency knowledge, and have further developed it neutrosophic soft expert sets. In this paper, this concept is further expanded...
Multibeam echosounder systems (MBES) can record backscatter strengths of gas plumes in the water column (WC) images that may be an indicator of possible occurrence of gas at certain depths. Manual or automatic detection is generally adopted in findin...
Electric power operation violation recognition (EPOVR) is essential for personnel safety, achieved by detecting key objects in electric power operation scenarios. Recent methods usually use the YOLOv8 model to achieve EPOVR; however, the YOLOv8 model...
Conventional four-legged intersections are inefficient under heavy traffic requirements and are prone to congestion problems. Unconventional intersections with innovative designs allow for more efficient traffic operations and can increase the capaci...
The European Union policy strategies on the sustainability of the transport system pursue the goals of maximizing safety and environmental benefits and reducing the severity and frequency of crashes, congestion, and pollutant emission rates. A common...
With the development of the economy, urban road transportation has been continuously improved, and the number of motor vehicles has also increased significantly, leading to serious energy consumption issues. As critical nodes in the urban road transp...
Safety and comfort are the two major requirements for the successful implementation of self-driving cars, which are anticipated to constitute the future generation of transportation. To create safe and effective self-driving car trajectories, a novel...
Traffic signal-controlled intersections are important elements of urban transport systems, where inappropriate signal control strategies can increase traffic congestion, energy consumption, and pollutant emissions. Increasing and time-varying traffic...
Addressing bidirectional section disruptions in urban rail transit, this paper proposes a fault recovery strategy that explicitly incorporates the constraints imposed by train operation intersections (i.e., turn-back stations). To achieve this goal,...
Thick ellipsoids were recently introduced by the authors to represent uncertainty in state variables of dynamic systems, not only in terms of guaranteed outer bounds but also in terms of an inner enclosure that belongs to the true solution set with c...
This essay proposes operative creativity as a conceptual and artistic response to the shifting roles of images in the age of algorithmic perception. Departing from Harun Farocki’s seminal artwork Eye/Machine, which first introduced the operativ...
As China’s urban–rural integration progresses, the connections between urban and rural areas continue to strengthen, making the spatial matching between transportation infrastructure and tourism resources increasingly crucial for coordina...
In many cities of the world, the problem of traffic congestion on the roads remains relevant and unresolved. It is especially noticeable at signal-controlled intersections, since traffic signalization is among the most important factors that reduce t...
As the number of motor vehicles in China’s cities continues to increase, the imbalance between the capacity that existing urban roads have for construction and the demand for motor vehicles is becoming increasingly evident. Indeed, the design o...
UAVs will present significant air traffic in the urban airspace in the future, which brings new challenges to urban air traffic management and control. This paper presents an air route design scheme for multi-rotor UAVs in urban airspace to enable UA...
To alleviate traffic congestion in the city, an integrated waiting area is introduced to the signalized intersection in this paper. After the design idea and the typical form of the integrated waiting area is proposed, the control method at the signa...
The operational and safety performance of intersections is the key to ensuring the efficient operation of urban traffic. With the development of automated driving technologies, the ability of adaptive traffic signal control has been improved accordin...
In the last decade, several characterizations have been constructed for constructions such as extreme hypergraphs. One of the most recently described features is the signature. A signature is a number that uniquely describes an extremal and allows on...
One of the primary responsibilities of local authorities is to develop infrastructure that meets the needs of its users. Roundabouts are widely used worldwide; however, clear criteria for selecting roundabouts instead of conventional four-way interse...
Traffic congestion in urban areas is a pressing challenge, with roundabouts and signalized intersections offering different operational benefits. This study explores the integration of these two intersection types, focusing on the optimal distance be...
This paper proposes some operations on the cubic intuitionistic set along with useful properties. We propose the internal cubic intuitionistic set (ICIS), the external cubic intuitionistic set (ECIS), P-order, R-order order (P-(R-) order), P-union, R...
This paper presents a microsimulation-driven framework to analyze the performance of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) alongside vehicles with human drivers (VHDs), channeled towards assessing project alternatives in road intersection design. T...
Boolean operations on geometric models are important in numerical simulation and serve as essential tools in the fields of computer-aided design and computer graphics. The accuracy of these operations is heavily influenced by finite precision arithme...
In this study, the effects of speed and red-light cameras (SRLCs) and traffic signal countdown timers (TSCTs) on the operation of pre-timed signalized intersections were studied through startup lost times (SLTs) and saturation time headways (STHs). T...
Traffic in large cities is increasing due to continuous urbanization, the construction of new housing complexes and the accompanying new street network. The growth of cities creates prerequisites for increasing the intensity of transport, pedestrian,...
With the advancement of sensing, communication, and cooperative capabilities of connected automated vehicles (CAVs), the capacity and operational state of signalized intersections have become increasingly observable and suitable for prospective asses...
Urban traffic signal systems based on fixed-time plans may not adequately respond to variations in traffic demand among signalized intersections, limiting their operational efficiency. This study proposes a data-driven framework based on a Multilayer...
Large retail developments act as strong trip attractors and can substantially alter traffic demand patterns at adjacent urban intersections. This paper analyzes the operational impacts of a major shopping center on two nearby signalized intersections...
Capacity-limited lanes and intersections constrain the efficiency of intelligent autonomous vehicles (IAVs) in automated container terminals (ACTs). Although onboard sensing and traffic monitoring can provide vehicle state information, translating th...
The purpose of the paper is to study new algebraic operations and fundamental properties of totally dependent-neutrosophic sets and totally dependent-neutrosophic soft sets. First, the in-coordination relationships among the original inclusion relati...
Many studies have been carried out to evaluate the sustainability of transportation systems, but little attention has been given for the design of roadway intersections. This study aimed to establish a framework and develop a tool to assess the susta...
Spatially intersecting roadways in mines are prone to stress concentration due to disturbances during mining operations, which significantly affects the stability of the inter-roadway surrounding rock between the roadways. Analyzing the stability of...
This paper is intended to improve the performance of signalized intersections, one of the most important systems of traffic control explained within the scope of smart transportation systems. These structures, which have the main role in ensuring the...
This paper proposes an automated framework that utilizes Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) point cloud data to map and detect road obstacles that impact drivers’ field of view at urban intersections. The framework facilitates the simulation of a dr...
List intersection plays a pivotal role in various domains such as search engines, database systems, and social networks. Efficient indexes and query strategies can significantly enhance the efficiency of list intersection. Existing inverted index-bas...
The exponential growth of urban centers has exacerbated the prevalence of traffic-related issues. This surge has amplified the conflict between the escalating need for travel among individuals and the constricted availability of road infrastructure....
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