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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,891 Views
26 Pages

17 December 2018

Urban mass transit is significant for the urbanization of cities, and the demand for public transit has increased rapidly in recent years. Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is experiencing an imbalance between demand and supply. Bangkok is facing a t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,157 Views
22 Pages

14 July 2023

Traffic control in mass transit consists of the regulation of both vehicle dynamics and passenger flows. While most of the existing approaches focus on the optimization of vehicle dwell time, vehicle time headway, and passenger stocks, we propose in...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,615 Views
10 Pages

Data Framework for Road-Based Mass Transit Systems Data Mining Project

  • Teresa Cristóbal,
  • Gabino Padrón,
  • Alexis Quesada-Arencibia,
  • Francisco Alayón and
  • Carmelo R. García

The current paradigm of intelligent transport systems (ITS) is based on the continuous observation of what is happening in the transport network and the continuous processing of data coming from these observations. This implies the handling and proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,611 Views
18 Pages

Applying Time-Dependent Attributes to Represent Demand in Road Mass Transit Systems

  • Teresa Cristóbal,
  • Gabino Padrón,
  • Javier Lorenzo-Navarro,
  • Alexis Quesada-Arencibia and
  • Carmelo R. García

20 February 2018

The development of efficient mass transit systems that provide quality of service is a major challenge for modern societies. To meet this challenge, it is essential to understand user demand. This article proposes using new time-dependent attributes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,092 Views
16 Pages

17 May 2019

In the network operation stage of urban mass transit, the connection relations between lines can effectively improve travel accessibility. As the last opportunity to travel on the same day, whether the last train can achieve transfer will directly af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,354 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2021

A transport business that has reached financial sustainability is one that is providing a service at a price that not only covers its costs but also creates a profit for upcoming contingencies. A focus on rail infrastructure financial sustainability...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,059 Views
12 Pages

Using Data Mining to Analyze Dwell Time and Nonstop Running Time in Road-Based Mass Transit Systems

  • Teresa Cristóbal,
  • Gabino Padrón,
  • Alexis Quesada,
  • Francisco Alayón,
  • Gabriel de Blasio and
  • Carmelo R. García

17 October 2018

Travel Time plays a key role in the quality of service in road-based mass transit systems. In this type of mass transit systems, travel time of a public transport line is the sum of the dwell time at each bus stop and the nonstop running time between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,425 Views
18 Pages

Improving the Traffic Model to Be Used in the Optimisation of Mass Transit System Electrical Infrastructure

  • Álvaro J. López-López,
  • Ramón R. Pecharromán,
  • Antonio Fernández-Cardador and
  • Asunción P. Cucala

2 August 2017

Among the different approaches for minimising the energy consumption of mass transit systems (MTSs), a common concern for MTS operators is the improvement of the electrical infrastructure. The traffic on the lines under analysis is one of the most im...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,551 Views
10 Pages

A Study on the Behavior of Clustering Techniques for Modeling Travel Time in Road-Based Mass Transit Systems

  • Teresa Cristóbal,
  • Gabino Padrón,
  • Alexis Quesada-Arencibia,
  • Francisco Alayón,
  • Gabriel de Blasio and
  • Carmelo R. García

In road-based mass transit systems, the travel time is a key factor affecting quality of service. For this reason, to know the behavior of this time is a relevant challenge. Clustering methods are interesting tools for knowledge modeling because thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Views
22 Pages

Urban railway systems are critical for the daily lives of citizens in cities. Considering that urban railways are a core infrastructure, it is important for urban and railway practitioners to operate and maintain urban railway systems effectively and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,850 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2018

Vibrational overtones in deeply-bound molecules are sensitive probes for variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio μ . In nonpolar molecules, these overtones may be driven as two-photon transitions. Here, we present procedures for experimen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,440 Views
12 Pages

30 September 2024

Many studies focus on brittle–ductile transition stress in intact rocks; however, in real life, we deal with rock mass which contains many discontinuities. To fill this gap, this research focuses on the brittle–ductile transition stress o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,269 Views
13 Pages

The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures on Mass Transit and Car Use

  • Élise Labonté-LeMoyne,
  • Shang-Lin Chen,
  • Constantinos K. Coursaris,
  • Sylvain Sénécal and
  • Pierre-Majorique Léger

26 November 2020

As the world adapts to COVID-19, the transport behaviour of commuters has been greatly modified. Governments and transit authorities will need strong, well-received mitigation measures and education campaigns to maintain the historically upward trend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,660 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2022

Water masses and their variability play vital roles in regulating ocean circulation, material exchanges and biogeochemical processes. However, there is still a lack of quantitative analysis of water mass distributions in coastal waters of the South C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,727 Views
16 Pages

26 January 2024

Through the discussion of three physical processes, we show that the Klein–Gordon equations with a negative mass term describe special dynamics. In the case of two classical disciplines—mechanics and thermodynamics—the Lagrangian-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,227 Views
30 Pages

18 March 2022

Multicriteria route planning is a crucial transportation planning issue under the field of GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) with broad applications. A searching algorithm is proposed to solve the multicriteria route planning probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,840 Views
18 Pages

Influential Factors Affecting Travelers’ Mode Choice Behavior on Mass Transit in Bangkok, Thailand

  • Phattarasuda Witchayaphong,
  • Surachet Pravinvongvuth,
  • Kunnawee Kanitpong,
  • Kazushi Sano and
  • Suksun Horpibulsuk

16 November 2020

Increasing use of single or fewer occupant vehicles has increased traffic congestion and transport-related emissions. Public transport as mass transit options are increasingly being encouraged amongst travelers to use, as this is an influential strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,844 Views
17 Pages

10 September 2021

The third rail is a critical piece of railway infrastructure that provides a continuous supply of electricity to power mass rapid transit trains. The vibration of the third rail may excite different resonant modes and affect its structural integrity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,397 Views
15 Pages

Estimating the Transit Speed and Time of Arrival of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Using CME and Solar Flare Data

  • Anatoly Belov,
  • Nataly Shlyk,
  • Maria Abunina,
  • Artem Abunin and
  • Athanasios Papaioannou

The dependence of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections’ (ICMEs) transit speed on the corresponding Coronal Mass Ejections’ (CMEs) initial speed is investigated. It is shown that the transit speed and transit time depend not only on the C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,222 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2020

With the implementation of growth management planning in urban areas and the realization of sustainable development visions, transit-oriented development has become a form of mainstream urban development. Relevant studies have verified that the marke...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,492 Views
34 Pages

As cities densify, deep underground infrastructure construction such as mass rapid transit (MRT) systems increasingly demand smarter, digitalized, and more sustainable approaches. RC diaphragm walls, essential to these systems, present challenges due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,867 Views
16 Pages

30 June 2020

In an urban public transport system, mass rapid transit (MRT) stations play an important role in the concentration and deconcentration of passengers. Spatial conflicts and unclear routes may lead to crowding in MRT stations and reduce their operation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,316 Views
18 Pages

Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Commuter’s Perception towards Mass Rapid Transit in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

  • Silvia Saleh,
  • Anusree Saha Tithi,
  • Nazmus Sakib,
  • Tonmoy Paul,
  • Nafis Anwari and
  • Shohel Amin

19 July 2023

The Dhaka Metro Rail (DMR) has been constructed as part of the Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority’s 20-year Strategic Transport Plan to reduce traffic congestion in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The DMR is the first urban rail tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,850 Views
12 Pages

18 February 2022

A particle beam-thin foil scattering model is updated within the context of parametrized relativistic quantum theory (pRQT). This paper focuses on the creation, annihilation, and detection of tachyons when a beam of particles scatters off a thin foil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,230 Views
20 Pages

Public transport is integral to the development of cities. It promotes economic development, mitigates environmental degradation, and fosters a sense of social cohesion. Notwithstanding, one can understand a place’s culture, geography, history,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,003 Views
13 Pages

Parity Doubling and the Dense-Matter Phase Diagram under Constraints from Multi-Messenger Astronomy

  • Michał Marczenko,
  • David Blaschke,
  • Krzysztof Redlich and
  • Chihiro Sasaki

We extend the recently developed hybrid quark–meson–nucleon model by augmenting a six-point scalar interaction and investigate the consequences for neutron-star sequences in the mass–radius diagram. One of the characteristic feature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,036 Views
15 Pages

Two Novel Approaches to the Hadron-Quark Mixed Phase in Compact Stars

  • Vahagn Abgaryan,
  • David Alvarez-Castillo,
  • Alexander Ayriyan,
  • David Blaschke and
  • Hovik Grigorian

5 September 2018

First-order phase transitions, such as the liquid-gas transition, proceed via formation of structures, such as bubbles and droplets. In strongly interacting compact star matter, at the crust-core transition but also the hadron-quark transition in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,878 Views
36 Pages

28 April 2024

This research investigates how the Lahore Metrobus system (MBS) influences perceptions of urban space quality through the lens of urban design and transport infrastructure. Lahore is undergoing significant urban changes with the introduction of a new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,421 Views
20 Pages

25 September 2024

The rapid growth of the e-commerce market in the retail sector has led to a greater demand for home delivery services in recent years. In order to develop policies to address the issues related to delivery demand, it is critical to understand the dem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,396 Views
32 Pages

24 April 2018

This article discusses original studies that demonstrate the relation between developed elements of the transportation network (road system density; railway system density; number of regional railway and bus connections, length of regional railway an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,934 Views
22 Pages

Studies of phase transition kinetics are important for such supercritical processes as supercritical drying, adsorption, micronization, etc. In supercritical technologies, “organic solvent—CO2” systems are often formed, the properti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,463 Views
19 Pages

Liquid CO2 Phase-Transition Rock Fracturing: A Novel Technology for Safe Rock Excavation

  • Haoyue Sui,
  • Tianming Su,
  • Ruilin Hu,
  • Ke Yang and
  • Yaxing Cheng

22 December 2021

In order to determine the applicability of liquid CO2 phase-transition fracturing technology in rock mass excavations, the principles of CO2 phase-transition fracturing were analyzed, and field tests of liquid CO2 phase-transition fracturing were per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,153 Views
17 Pages

3 January 2025

We propose that modifications to the Higgs potential within a narrow atmospheric layer near the event horizon of an astrophysical black hole could significantly enhance the rate of sphaleron transitions, as well as transform the Chern–Simons nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,893 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2023

Mass transfer and phase transition have an important effect on the velocity of bubble migration in deepwater wellbores, and accurate prediction of bubble migration velocity is crucial for calculating the safe shut-in period of deepwater oil and gas w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
5,046 Views
22 Pages

Was GW170817 a Canonical Neutron Star Merger? Bayesian Analysis with a Third Family of Compact Stars

  • David Blaschke,
  • Alexander Ayriyan,
  • David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo and
  • Hovik Grigorian

We investigate the possibility that GW170817 was not the merger of two conventional neutron stars (NS), but involved at least one if not two hybrid stars with a quark matter core that might even belong to a third family of compact stars. To this end,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,405 Views
26 Pages

This study evaluated the effects of COVID-19 on attitudes toward residential associated with travel behavior on decisions regarding future relocation. Chi-square automatic interaction detection was used to generate tree and classification segments to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,466 Views
17 Pages

This study examines the relationship between travel modes and the attitudes of residents and travelers around mass transit stations. The importance of this study was emphasized by considering that the attitudes toward residence could affect future tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,741 Views
24 Pages

System Proposal for Mass Transit Service Quality Control Based on GPS Data

  • Gabino Padrón,
  • Teresa Cristóbal,
  • Francisco Alayón,
  • Alexis Quesada-Arencibia and
  • Carmelo R. García

16 June 2017

Quality is an essential aspect of public transport. In the case of regular public passenger transport by road, punctuality and regularity are criteria used to assess quality of service. Calculating metrics related to these criteria continuously over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,063 Views
33 Pages

13 September 2018

Much of the anticipated future growth in North America will occur in suburbia. The critical challenge that we will face is how to accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. While the past 50 years have been characterized by suburb...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,071 Views
13 Pages

Distribution of Copper, Iron, and Zinc in the Retina, Hippocampus, and Cortex of the Transgenic APP/PS1 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Seyed Mostafa Hosseinpour Mashkani,
  • David P. Bishop,
  • Newsha Raoufi-Rad,
  • Paul A. Adlard,
  • Olga Shimoni and
  • S. Mojtaba Golzan

13 April 2023

A mis-metabolism of transition metals (i.e., copper, iron, and zinc) in the brain has been recognised as a precursor event for aggregation of Amyloid-β plaques, a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, imaging cerebral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,799 Views
11 Pages

Properties of Doubly Heavy Baryons

  • Zalak Shah,
  • Amee Kakadiya,
  • Keval Gandhi and
  • Ajay Kumar Rai

9 September 2021

We revisited the mass spectra of the Ξcc++ baryon with positive and negative parity states using Hypercentral Constituent Quark Model Scheme with Coloumb plus screened potential. The ground state of the baryon has been determined by the LHCb experime...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,307 Views
8 Pages

The QCD Axion in Hot and Dense Matter

  • Hong-Fang Gong,
  • Qi Lu and
  • Zhen-Yan Lu

Within the framework of the two-flavor Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model, we study the quantum chromodynamics axion properties at finite temperature and chemical potential. Our analysis shows that the axion properties are strongly influenced by the crit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,799 Views
19 Pages

Assessing Road Users’ Preferences for Various Travel Demand Management Strategies for Adoption in Accra, Ghana

  • William Kwaasi Amanor,
  • Emmanuel Kofi Adanu,
  • Charles Anum Adams and
  • Solomon Buenor Adi

The rise in population density, vehicle ownership, and urban development has significantly influenced travel demand and altered travel patterns, leading to traffic congestion in rapidly growing urban centers such as Accra, Ghana. The traditional appr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,533 Views
12 Pages

The Integration of Shared Autonomous Vehicles in Public Transportation Services: A Systematic Review

  • Filippo Carrese,
  • Simone Sportiello,
  • Tolegen Zhaksylykov,
  • Chiara Colombaroni,
  • Stefano Carrese,
  • Muzio Papaveri and
  • Sergio Maria Patella

29 August 2023

Autonomous vehicles and shared mobility represent two fields of strong innovation in transportation research, and Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) services have been studied as a new promising mobility system. Such services offer a strong potential es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,447 Views
13 Pages

Improving the Stability of Ball-Milled Lead Halide Perovskites via Ethanol/Water-Induced Phase Transition

  • Jinyoung Kim,
  • Nguyen The Manh,
  • Huynh Tan Thai,
  • Soon-Ki Jeong,
  • Young-Woo Lee,
  • Younghyun Cho,
  • Wook Ahn,
  • Yura Choi and
  • Namchul Cho

10 March 2022

Recently, lead halide perovskite nanocrystals have been considered as potential light-emitting materials because of their narrow full width at half-maximum (FWHM) and high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY). In addition, they have various emissio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,558 Views
23 Pages

It is now almost impossible to deal with spatial data without considering some explicit specification that captures possible spatial effects. One valuable feature of spatial econometrics models is their decomposition of marginal effects into spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,611 Views
18 Pages

1 December 2014

The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an essential step in the proliferation and metastasis of solid tumor cells, and glycosylation plays a crucial role in the EMT process. Certain aberrant glycans have been reported as biomarkers during bla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,344 Views
17 Pages

Milled peat must be dried for the production of peat fuel briquettes. The current trend in the creation of drying technologies is the intensification of the dehydration process while obtaining a high-quality final product. An increase in the temperat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,191 Views
19 Pages

30 January 2025

The clean energy transition is a paradigm shift from a carbon-intensive energy system to a renewable energy one. The new energy system requires large amounts of critical minerals, including lithium. However, the mining and extraction of these mineral...

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