Engineering procurement and construction (EPC) is a normative practice globally approved since China has been engaging in international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure development. EPC has been adopted in the deliv...
Road layers should be properly compacted to obtain an adequate bearing capacity and durability. Both the unbound and hydraulically bound mixtures used in the layers require compaction. After compaction and hardening, soil mixed with a binder acquires...
The use of naturally available materials not conforming to traditional specifications or standards in the base and sub-base layers of road pavement structures and stabilised with New-age (Nano) Modified Emulsions (NME) have been tested, implemented a...
With the proposal of the “One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative”, the Chinese architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has increasingly been exploring the overseas markets. This paper adopted the propensity score matching...
The road pavement sector is currently gaining more and more attractivity as a peculiar field of civil engineering [...]
With a high thermal efficiency, high reliability and good fuel economy, diesel engines have been widely used. However, with the increasingly stringent standards regarding non-road diesel engine emissions, diesel engines can hardly satisfy the particl...
It is important to reduce the negative environmental effects of non-road diesel engines, which are increasingly used in many facilities and machines, without loss of performance. Biodiesel is used as an alternative to fossil-based diesel fuels to eli...
In the present study, detailed comparative experiments on a heavy-duty diesel engine used in the world harmonized transient cycle (WHTC) and road spectrum reversely deduced cycle (RSRDC, which was derived from a road test) were carried out. Fuel cons...
The construction of a roads network consumes high amounts of materials. The road materials are required to fulfill high standards like bearing capacity and low settlement susceptibility due to cyclic loading. Therefore, crushed aggregates are the pri...
Diesel engines employed in non-road machinery are significant contributors to nanoparticulate matters. This paper presents a novel device based on the principle of split-stream rushing to mitigate particulate matter emissions from these engines. By o...
In this study, an exhaust system compliant with future regulations was developed for a non-road 110PS engine with a Tier-4f aftertreatment system, and the emission characteristics of the engine were investigated in the non-road transient mode (NRTC)....
Road safety systems are critical engineering solutions designed to minimize the effects of traffic accidents and increase the safety of transportation infrastructures. Traditional road safety structures are generally manufactured using steel, concret...
Rural roads are important for the communities in the hilly areas of Nepal as they introduce livelihood opportunities at the local level, and provide better access to the healthcare, education, and resources. Yet, most of the rural roads in Nepal are...
Background and Aims: Considerable variation has been documented with fleet safety interventions’ abilities to create lasting behavioural change, and research has neglected to consider employees’ perceptions regarding the effectiveness of fleet interv...
Traffic congestion not only severely impacts residents’ daily travel quality and increases travel costs, but also triggers traffic accidents, causes environmental pollution, and leads to resource waste. There is a practical need to implement en...
The high-modulus asphalt mixture produced by hard asphalt has played a good role in reducing asphalt pavement rutting and improving pavement durability. It was widely used in the construction of various levels of road engineering in Europe. However,...
Road transport decarbonization remains a strategic priority in the context of the global climate emergency. Between 2013 and 2024, most economic sectors in the European Union reduced emissions, whereas the transport and storage sector increased them...
Roads are important infrastructure for a country’s economic and social development. The stability of subgrade slopes, as one of the most prominent engineering issues in roads, is of great significance for the assessment and analysis of the stab...
The detection and recognition of unstructured roads in forest environments are critical for smart forestry technology. Forest roads lack effective reference objects and manual signs and have high degrees of nonlinearity and uncertainty, which pose se...
The paper presents the basic problem related with practical application of carbonate rocks in construction: are carbonate aggregates produced from such rocks favorable for building engineering, particularly for road design and construction? To resolv...
Great efforts have been made in recent years by the scientific community and the asphalt industry in developing sustainable technologies for the production of asphalt mixtures for road paving applications, pursuing the use of ever higher quantities o...
Frost heaving and boiling are the most common road disorders due to the special climatic conditions in a seasonal frozen area. From the perspective of controlling road disorders in seasonally frozen areas and making effective use of industrial waste...
Understanding vehicle acceleration behavior during intersection departures is critical for advancing traffic safety, sustainable mobility, and intelligent transport systems. This study presents a high-resolution kinematic analysis of 714 vehicle depa...
Landslide mitigation works, which are used to retrieve the damaged (from the landslide) environment, sometimes lack methodologies to integrate resilience into infrastructure projects economically and sustainably. The necessity of developing resilienc...
This article describes the safety and effectiveness issues related to signal countdown timers (SCT). These devices are used in many countries around the world. The impact of these devices on road safety and the effectiveness of traffic lights is pres...
A common challenge among internal combustion engine (ICE) manufacturers is shortening the development time while facing requirements and specifications that are becoming more complex and border in scope. Virtual simulation and calibration are effecti...
The dynamic test-bed is a powerful tool for the powertrain integration and control strategy development of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). This paper focuses on developing a test-bed controller with driver simulation, road load simulation (RLS), and...
One of the most topical research areas currently concerns the identification and improvement of technologies against climate change, environmental pollution, exploitation of natural resources, and the economic crisis [...]
In light of rising environmental concerns, the rapid industrial recycling of building demolition waste material (BDWM) is now capable of supporting sustainable development in metropolitan regions. From this perspective, the current study investigated...
The Clean Propulsion Technologies (CPT) project, established in 2021, brought together 15 research partners and original equipment manufacturers. The goal was to create a common vision and sustainable business solutions so that the worldwide technolo...
Roads play an indispensable role as part of the infrastructure of society. In recent years, society has witnessed the rapid development of laser mobile mapping systems (LMMS) which, at high measurement rates, acquire dense and accurate point cloud da...
The pavement base and subbase are the main load-bearing structures of asphalt pavement, and their materials need to have sufficient bearing capacity. Therefore, in the development of LSAM-50 mixtures with higher bearing capacity, after significant re...
Barium slag is classified as a hazardous waste due to its high content of soluble Ba2+. To achieve safe disposal and high-value utilization, this study developed a novel all-solid-waste road base material by synergistically combining harmlessly treat...
In this study, biodiesel fuel with a ratio of 20% volume (B20) was used on vehicles that are used in common rail injection systems, complying with Euro2 emission regulations. Laboratory and road tests were conducted to evaluate the effects of B20 on...
Nanoscale organofunctional silanes have been developed, tested and successfully applied to protect stone buildings in Europe against climatic effects since the 1860s. The same nanotechnologies can also be used in pavement engineering to create strong...
Road recycling technology is gradually becoming a research focus in road construction due to natural resource shortages. It is therefore necessary to carry out deep and extensive analysis of the huge amount of publications in the research area of rec...
Internal combustion engine-driven railway vehicles play an important role in the sector even today, due to the incomplete electrification of railway routes. However, stringent COP26 environmental rules are driving manufacturers and the scientific com...
The recycling and reuse of waste materials is an important part of promoting sustainable development. Encouraged by cleaner production and a circular economy, the introduction of calcium carbide residue (CCR) for the stabilization of soil foundations...
The need to enrich the semantic completeness of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is crucial for its effective use in geographic information systems and urban studies. Addressing this challenge, our research introduces a novel hierarchical feature augmentatio...
The crisscross progress of transportation and energy carries the migrating track of human society development and the evolution of civilization, among which the decarbonization strategy is a key issue. Traffic carbon emissions account for 16.2% of to...
This study employed an onboard emission measurement system to measure the real-world emission factors of particulate matter (PM), particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and gaseous air pollutants for different types of diesel-fueled...
This study investigates the application of foam asphalt (FA) to enhance the compaction effectiveness of a hot in-place recycling asphalt mixture (HIR-AM) during the HIR process of old road surfaces. Initially, the process parameters for FA preparatio...
To standardize definitions and guide the design, regulation, and policy related to automated transportation, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has established a taxonomy consisting of six levels of vehicle automation. The SAE taxonomy defines...
The most common fuel used for powering compression ignition engines is diesel, whose main components are petroleum products. The constantly growing energy demand involves the implementation of new technical solutions and applying alternative fuels, i...
Floods are among the most devastating hydrometeorological natural disasters worldwide, causing massive infrastructure and economic loss in low-lying, flood-prone developing countries like Bangladesh. Effective disaster mitigation relies on organized...
Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been put in practice by the Chinese government, several High-Speed Railways (HSR) have been built by Chinese Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) firms. However, many delays have created severe d...
Currently, there is a need for civil engineering programs to train their students in subjects associated with sustainability. Additionally, civil engineers in their work must constantly make decisions, so their training is necessary. Therefore, the g...
This study assessed the fundamental physical properties and chemical composition of three specific waste engine oil residue (WEORs) asphalt regenerants. Through dynamic shear rheometer and rolling thin-film oven tests, the performance of aged asphalt...
Eco-driving is a key strategy for reducing energy consumption and emissions in electric vehicles (EVs) and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. However, research gaps remain regarding its effectiveness across different driving environments, veh...
The perception and behavior of human drivers is of great importance for both sustainable road construction and sustainable coexistence with self-driving vehicles. To record the (hazard) perception and responsiveness of drivers, as many parameters as...
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