Road cycling is an endurance sport characterized by several anthropometric performance factors, such as reduced body mass and body fat percentage. As the power to weight ratio is considered one of the most important markers of performance in this spo...
In this study, we focus on resilience as the ability of specific infrastructure systems at the regional scale to absorb the shocks of extreme events, such as earthquakes. The occurrence of a disaster such as an earthquake leads to a rapid decrease in...
This paper presents an assessment of the impact of maintenance of a road lighting luminaire with a high-pressure sodium lamp and an LED luminaire on the lighting parameters on the road and the energy efficiency of the entire road lighting installatio...
The state of the road network contains both the infrastructure performance and the traffic operation state of the road network. There is a strong coupling between the decay of the infrastructure performance and the redistribution of the traffic flow...
This current and pioneering work aimed to assess the on-road performance of selected hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) in local urban road conditions following the World Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) and th...
The performance of LiDAR sensors deteriorates under adverse weather conditions such as rainfall. However, few studies have empirically analyzed this phenomenon. Hence, we investigated differences in sensor data due to environmental changes (distance...
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,...
In order to solve the problem of road dust pollution, an ecological dust suppressant for road surfaces has been developed using monomer, orthogonal, and optimization experiments and based on the dust raising mechanism. A humectant, hygroscopic agent,...
Asphalt pavement cracking is an important factor affecting its service life. Under certain conditions, the self-healing behavior of asphalt itself can repair pavement cracks. However, the self-healing ability of asphalt itself is limited. In order to...
Self-reported behavioural data, being often linguistic variables that represent a qualitative measure of respondents’ opinions/attitudes, are vague, uncertain, and fuzzy in nature. A road safety performance index, based on these fuzzy data, sho...
This article introduces the Database for Estimation of Road Network Performance (DERNP) to enable wide-scale estimation of relevant Road Network Performance (RNP) factors for major German cities. The methodology behind DERNP is based on a randomized...
A trend towards performance-based contracting (PBC) can be observed in public infrastructure maintenance. PBC is an approach of tying the contractor’s payment to specified performance. We investigated PBC for the maintenance of highways and roa...
Substituting steel slag for mineral materials in road construction has potential economic and environmental benefits. Due to the excellent thermal conductivity of steel slag, it is often used in functional pavements. However, there are few studies on...
To examine the effect mechanism of rubber and diatomite on asphalt as well as the performance of asphalt mixtures for road applications, various composite-modified asphalts are prepared using rubber and diatomite. The performance of modified asphalts...
The utilization of reclaimed asphalt mixture, which combines old asphalt reclaimed material (RAP) with new aggregate, holds significant environmental benefits. However, the road performance of this mixture can decline due to the degradation of the ol...
Temperature segregation during the paving of asphalt pavements is one of the causes of asphalt pavement distress. Therefore, controlling the paving temperature is crucial in the construction of asphalt pavements. To quickly evaluate the road performa...
During large-scale pavement construction, the preparation of SBS-modified asphalt typically produces large amounts of harmful fumes. The emergence of deodorants can effectively alleviate the problem of smoke emissions during the asphalt manufacturing...
To determine the road performance and optimum dosing of solid-waste-based gelling agents in road subgrade, we conducted unconfined compressive strength testing for clay, sandy soil, weathered sand, and crushed stone mixed with different proportions o...
Road safety performance varies considerably across regions, affected by differences in management practices, local conditions, and broader systemic factors. A systematic and comprehensive evaluation helps analyze these variations and translate them i...
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...
This study investigates the digitalization capabilities and the moderating effect of green open innovation (GOI) that firms need to achieve triple bottom line (TBL) performance in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This study explores the structure...
Under the constraints of resources and the environment, improving the urban ecological well-being performance (EWP) is a fundamental requirement and inevitable choice for urban ecological civilization construction and sustainable development. In this...
The development of a road safety performance index has been widely accepted as a supportive instrument to evaluate and compare the safety performance in different countries. However, most of the current studies concentrate on the index development fo...
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Noise annoyance is usually estimated based on time-averaged noise metrics. However, such metrics ignore other potentially important acoustic characteristics, in particular the macro-temporal pattern of sounds as constituted by quiet periods (noise br...
To minimize the impact of snowfall and ice formation on safety of transportation, salt is sprinkled on the asphalt every winter. However, the use of salt has economical as well as ecological disadvantages. To resolve these problems, road heating syst...
With the intensification of global climate change, the issue of snow and ice accumulation on roads during winter has become increasingly severe, prompting the widespread application of salt-storage asphalt mixtures in highway construction of alpine r...
Due to the difference of cooling and treatment processes (rolling method, hot braised method, layer pouring method), basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel slag can be mainly classified as roller steel slag (RSS), hot braised steel slag (HBSS) and layer po...
Road lighting uniformity is an essential lighting quality parameter for motorists and pedestrians and varies with lighting design parameters. Increased road lighting uniformity may result in benefits, such as increased reassurance and perceived safet...
To reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions from rubber powder/SBS modified asphalt under high temperatures, the key road performance characteristics of asphalt modified with different proportions of rubber powder/SBS were investigated. The...
Urea–formaldehyde (UF) is a common shell material for self-healing microcapsules; however, the influence of urea–formaldehyde microcapsules (UFMs) on the road performance of bituminous mixtures and the sensitivity of their healing abiliti...
Safety Performance Functions (SPFs) play a key role in identifying hotspots. Most SPFs were built at the micro-level, such as for road intersections or segments. On the other hand, in case of regional transportation planning, it may be useful to esti...
In order to clarify the road performance and load response behavior of polyurethane mixtures, a low-temperature bending test, dynamic modulus test, rutting test, Hamburg rutting test, and four-point bending fatigue test were conducted on multi-crushe...
Warm-mixed reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) technology has been widely studied worldwide as a recycled environmental method to reuse waste materials. However, the aggregate skeleton structure of the warm-mixed reclaimed asphalt mixture is not stable...
Road construction takes a heavy toll on the environment. Therefore, innovative strategies to improve the environmental performances of this sector are needed, and the use of recycled materials (e.g., plastic) has been recently pursued to achieve this...
MgO carbonization is a green and low-carbon soil improvement technology. The use of MgO carbonization to solidify dredged sediment and transform it into road-building materials has significant environmental sustainability advantages. A series of micr...
Aiming at the problems of serious pavement temperature diseases, low efficiency and high loss of ice-breaking methods, high occupancy rate of waste tires and the low utilization rate and insufficient durability of rubber particles, this paper aims to...
Circular utilization of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) has received extensive attention for its economic and environmental benefits. The application of recycled asphalt mixtures (RAM) in the upper layer of asphalt pavement faces the issue of inferi...
The incorporation of waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a modifier for asphalt presents a promising approach to addressing the environmental pollution associated with waste plastics while simultaneously extending the service life of road surfa...
Rear-end crashes are a common crash scenario, which contribute to many traffic related injuries and fatalities. A performance driving center offers adult car control classes focused on defensive driving skills, which include both classroom and behind...
Excessive usage of non-renewable natural resources and massive construction wastes put pressure on the environment. Steel slags, the main waste material from the metal industry, are normally added in asphalt concrete to replace traditional aggregate....
Popular geo-computer vision works make use of aerial imagery, with sizes ranging from 64 × 64 to 1024 × 1024 pixels without any overlap, although the learning process of deep learning models can be affected by the reduced semantic context...
To assess the impact of solid waste phosphogypsum on the road performance of lime-fly ash-stabilized red clay, we conducted comprehensive tests on the road performance, swelling and shrinkage characteristics, and mechanical properties of lime-fly ash...
With the rapid expansion and aging of global road networks, cold recycled mix asphalt (CRMA) has gained significant attention as a sustainable pavement rehabilitation technology. However, the road performance of CRMA is highly sensitive to material c...
This study examines the transformative potential of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in enhancing the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of Chinese companies, carrying significant implications for global sustainable development...
With the increasing demand for highway maintenance, enhancing the resource utilization of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) has become an urgent and widely studied issue. Although foam asphalt cold recycling technology offers significant benefits in t...
To clarify the influence of reinforcement corrosion on the mechanical performance of road tunnel linings, localized tests on reinforcement-induced concrete expansion are conducted to identify cracking patterns and their effects on load-bearing behavi...
This study examines the influence of sustainability disclosure on a firm’s financial performance in the energy sector, taking into account the role of ownership concentration as a moderating factor. This study utilized secondary data from 239 e...
The application of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) can help reduce resource waste and environmental pollution in road construction. However, so far, only a small percentage of RAP materials can be used in road construction. The key obstacles to the...
In this paper, the key technologies in the construction process of hot in-place recycling were investigated in order to improve the utilization rate of waste asphalt mixture; traditional lab tests including penetration, softening point and ductility...
Road network performance (RNP) is a key element for urban sustainability as it has a significant impact on economy, environment, and society. Poor RNP can lead to traffic congestion, which can lead to higher transportation costs, more pollution and h...
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