The community shuttle system plays an important role in serving communities with a heavy travel demand for the metro service. Stop location and route design are the two main decisions of planning a community shuttle service. Those two decisions are i...
Selecting optimal locations for customized bus stops is crucial for enhancing the adoption rate of customized bus services, reducing operational costs, and, consequently, mitigating traffic congestion. This study leverages ride-hailing data to analyz...
This research aims at establishing an integrated urban public transport system with a subway route supplemented by conventional bus lines, in order to enable residents’ “door-to-door” travel. This paper first analyzed the attraction...
In developing countries, motorcycle riders normally attempt to stop at their desired locations during queue formation on signalized intersection approaches. Under mixed-traffic conditions, motorcycle positioning in a queue affects the operational and...
Existing offset optimization methods for signalized intersections are mainly focused on regular traffic flow, which cannot accommodate cars and public transit (e.g., Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)) simultaneously. This study proposes a delay prediction mode...
The increasing availability of big Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) sensor data offers great opportunities to track ship activities and mine spatial-temporal patterns of ship traffic worldwide. This research proposes a data integration approach...
The bus stop layout and route deployment may influence the efficiency of bus services. Evaluating the supply of bus service requires the consideration of demand from various urban activities, such as residential and job-related activities. Although v...
Aiming at the problems of poor time performance and accuracy in bus stops network optimization, this paper proposes an algorithm based on complex network and graph theory and Beidou Vehicle Location to measure the importance of bus stops. This method...
The off-axis three-mirror optical system is derived from the classical Cooke triplet or a derivative of the inverse-telephoto lens. By properly arranging an internal reimaging mechanism or altering the location of the optical stop, one can create dif...
Shuttle bus connection is a valid technique to handle unplanned problems and promote sustainable transportation. The study describes tools that facilitate the shuttle bus timetable adjustment responding to a disturbance resulting from behind-schedule...
The quality of route design can greatly affect the operational efficiency of feeder bus service for high-speed rail stations. A bi-objective optimization formulation is established to consider the trade-off between two conflicting optimization object...
Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) services ensure the implementation of more sustainable transport solutions and focuses on the creation of more flexible and personalised public transport systems. They help to reduce the use of cars, improve service...
Compared with real fish, bionic fish have significant gaps in terms of swimming speed and efficiency, turning performance, and agility. The complicated underwater working environment necessitates monitoring equipment that can deal with the dynamic in...
Human activity hotspots are the clusters of activity locations in space and time, and a better understanding of their functionality would be useful for urban land use planning and transportation. In this article, using trajectory data, we aim to infe...
Most truck stops in rural areas are located along high-demand highway corridors, consistent with current methods based on capacity and demand models. However, these models underestimate the safety aspect, failing to detect highway corridors with low...
27 May 2022
Due to stop-and-go events, bus stops are often treated as “hot spots” for air pollution. The design of bus stops should be optimized to reduce emissions and exposure for transit commuters. The objective of this study was to analyze the im...
Urban buses have energy and environmental impacts because they are mostly equipped with heavy-duty diesel engines, having higher emission factors and pollution levels. This study proposed a mean distribution deviation (MDD) method to identify bus pol...
Public transit plays a key role in shaping the transportation structure of large and fast growing cities. To cope with high population and employment density, such cities usually resort to multi-modal transit services, such as rail, BRT and bus. Thes...
Accurate prediction of truck stop behavior is essential for freight transportation analysis and logistics management. However, many existing methods neglect the operational decision logic that governs the transport activities. For example, they treat...
Identifying stops from GPS trajectories is one of the main concerns in the study of moving objects and has a major effect on a wide variety of location-based services and applications. Although the spatial and non-spatial characteristics of trajector...
27 October 2021
Understanding environmental predictors of women’s use of closest breast screening venue versus other site(s) may assist optimal venue placement. This study assessed relationships between residential-area sociodemographic measures, venue location feat...
Stakeholders expect emerging urban air mobility (UAM) services that use electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to revolutionize transportation systems. However, to be effective, eVTOL facilities, known as vertiports, must seamlessly i...
The purpose of this study is to create a bi-level programming model for the optimal bus stop spacing of a bus rapid transit (BRT) system, to ensure simultaneous coordination and consider the interests of bus companies and passengers. The top-level mo...
The prediction of stop dwell time is a major issue in travel speed modeling, i.e., in the definition of travel time for high-frequency and high-ridership rail public transport. This is due to the numerous influential factors associated with stop dwel...
In complex urban road conditions, stationary or illegally parked vehicles present a considerable risk to the overall traffic system. In safety-critical applications like autonomous driving, the detection of stopped vehicles is of utmost importance. P...
Achieving precise stopping of electric locomotives is crucial for the realization of intelligent and unmanned auxiliary transportation systems. Presently, human drivers play a central role in ensuring accurate stopping, presenting obstacles to automa...
The section span of the withdrawal space of fully mechanized top coal caving in an extra-thick coal seam is large, and with the gradual withdrawal of the hydraulic support, a series of strong dynamic pressure disasters occur in the withdrawal space,...
Public transportation in cities is crucial for their sustainable development. The attractiveness of public transport for city residents depends largely on whether they are able to access the nearest stop on foot. The actual time of walking to the nea...
With the growing heterogeneity of public transport systems, accurate representation of passenger service processes at bus stops shared by multiple operators has become increasingly important. This study develops and validates a microscopic model of p...
Urban transportation is a crucial aspect of modern societal development, with bus route optimization playing a central role in urban transit planning. Well-designed bus routes can enhance the efficiency and attractiveness of public transportation, al...
Urban public transport line formulation has its appeal in promoting public convenience and developing environmentally friendly cities. During the bus line planning stage, the line frequency and stop location determination is a key issue for decision...
In response to the phenomenon of global warming, the transportation sector aims to mitigate carbon emissions by promoting the use of public transportation. This study employs social network analysis to propose effective improvements to the public tra...
This research addresses an urban problem that has emerged as a result of the increased number of trains on railway line located in a city center. The essence of this problem is the difficulty of crossing individual and public transport lines, on foot...
The current technological world is growing rapidly and each aspect of life is being transformed toward automation for human comfort and reliability. With autonomous vehicle technology, the communication gap between the driver and the traditional vehi...
In this paper, a sharp band-pass filter (BPF) with enhanced pass-band and stop-band specifications is presented. The filter can be utilized for 5G mid-band applications along with LTE42 (3.4–3.6 GHz) and LTE43 (3.6–3.8 GHz) to comply with...
Background/Objectives: Direct imaging comparisons of single-incision mini-slings are limited. This study compared six-month three-dimensional transperineal ultrasound (TPUS) findings after Altis and MiniStop surgery. Methods: This retrospective cohor...
Electric vehicles (EVs), which have become a fundamental part of the automotive industry, were developed as part of concerted worldwide efforts to reduce dependency on fossil fuels due to their devastating effects on the environment. The aim of this...
Aluminum (Al) is solubilized as phytotoxic Al3+ in acidic soils, rapidly inhibiting root elongation. To detoxify Al, plant roots secrete organic acids that chelate the ion. The transcription factor SENSITIVE-TO-PROTON-RHIZOTOXICITY1 (STOP1) regulates...
Considerable interest has been shown in decreasing car use through planning and policy-making efforts. However, little is known about the interactive effects of built environment (BE) and parking policy on car use, and it is unclear whether and how t...
Ensuring that commuting distance remains within a certain range has important effect of residents’ quality of life. Although many studies have investigated the relationship between the built environment and residents’ commuting distance,...
For the simulation of public transport, next to a schedule, knowledge of the public transport routes is required. While the schedules are becoming available, the precise network routes often remain unknown and must be reconstructed. For large-scale n...
In this paper, a new method is proposed to detect traffic regulations at intersections using GPS traces. The knowledge of traffic rules for regulated locations can help various location-based applications in the context of Smart Cities, such as the a...
High-quality, well-structured trip chain data are essential for analyzing the daily activity patterns, travel behaviors, and logistical decisions of commercial vehicles, as well as for supporting sustainability-oriented freight management and low-car...
Bus bunching is a common phenomenon caused by irregular bus headway, which increases the passenger waiting time, makes the passenger capacity uneven, and severely reduces the reliability of bus service. This paper clarified the process of bus bunchin...
5 December 2014
Active commuting provides routine-based regular physical activity which can reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Using public transportation involves some walking or cycling to a transit stop, transfers and a walk to the end location and users of pub...
Shared automated mobility on-demand (SAMOD) is considered as a promising mobility solution in the future. Users book trips on-demand via a smartphone, and service algorithms set up virtual stops (vStop) where users then need to walk to board the auto...
Autonomous bus deployment requires coordination among vehicles, passengers, stopping infrastructure, digital systems, operators, and institutions. This integrative review combines metadata-level mapping of 93 publications retrieved from Scopus and We...
The growing number of vehicles in Jordan has contributed to traffic congestion, particularly at roundabouts. Roundabouts deflect high volumes of traffic flow. To improve the performance of roundabouts, it is necessary to consider the impact of all co...
This paper presents in situ measurements of a newly developed current density measurement system for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC). While the functional principle and technical evaluation of the measurement system were presented in a pr...
The article deals with the creation of a program for stopping an autonomous robotic vehicle Robotino® 4. generation at a defined distance from an obstacle. One of the nine infrared distance sensors located on the frame of the robotic vehicle in the f...
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