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The Smog Free Tower (SFT) in the city of Xi’an, China, is the world’s first outdoor architecture that uses solar energy and filtration technology to purify polluted air. It provides a unique opportunity to explore residents’ willingness to pay for ai...

Recently, as vehicle computing technology has advanced, the paradigm of the vehicle has changed from a simple means of transportation to a smart vehicle for safety and convenience. In addition, the previous functions of the Intelligent Transportation...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to revolutionize transportation by offering safer, more efficient, and convenient mobility solutions. As AV technology advances, there is a growing need to understand and model traffic dynamics in environm...

The objective of this paper is to introduce a module that works with smart glasses that to detect and recognize traffic signs on the road. The developed module encompasses the detection and classification of traffic signs, thereby enhancing safety an...

The rapid development of the motor vehicle brings convenience to our life; however, it also increases the burden on traffic networks and the environment, especially when road space is limited. Traffic calming has proved to be an effective solution fo...

Current research about the application of large scale electric vehicles (EVs) is carried out in two fields: (1) From the aspect of the traffic system, charging navigation technologies were proposed, to improve traffic efficiency and charging convenie...

Traffic replay can effectively improve the fidelity of network emulation and can support emerging network verification and network security evaluation. A distributed traffic replay framework for network emulation, named DTRF, is designed for large-sc...

Traffic prediction is crucial for transportation management and user convenience. With the rapid development of deep learning techniques, numerous models have emerged for traffic prediction. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are extensively utilized a...

This paper presents a two-stage fuzzy-logic application based on the Mamdani inference method to classify the observed road traffic conditions. It was tested using real data extracted from the Padua–Venice motorway in Italy, which contains a de...

As a countermeasure to urban exhaust pollution and traffic congestion, traffic restriction policy (TRP) and carpooling strategy have been widely introduced throughout the world. However, their effects are largely determined by the rationality of impl...

The concept of Healthy Cities, introduced by the World Health Organization, demonstrates the value of health for the whole urban system. As one of the most important components of urban systems, transportation plays an important role in Healthy Citie...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have attracted a lot of attention during the last decade. VANETs can not only improve driving safety, but also convenience, and support most future Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Due to the highly dynamic...

Young drivers are generally associated with risky driving behaviors that can lead to crash involvement. Many self-report measurement scales are used to assess such risky behaviors. This study is aimed to understand the risky driving behaviors of youn...

Community shuttle services have the potential to alleviate traffic congestion and reduce traffic pollution caused by massive short-distance taxi-hailing trips. However, few studies have evaluated and quantified the impact of community shuttle service...

Communications between vehicles are seen as a solution for road transport problems, such as accidents, inefficiencies, traffic congestions, fuel consumption, and exhaust emissions. However, before implementing such a solution, some preliminary analys...

As the distribution function of traffic load effect on bridge structures has always been unknown or very complicated, a probability model of extreme traffic load effect during service periods has not yet been perfectly predicted by the traditional ex...

Large hospitals in China typically face high-density patient flows, highly concentrated medical service demands, and significant impacts on surrounding transportation systems. To explore this issue in depth, this study selected a sample of 135 hospit...

Electrified vehicles, especially fully driven electric ground vehicles, are expected to provide significantly increased traffic mobility and road utilization with faster response times, lower levels of fuel consumption, less environmental pollution,...

According to the current optimization problem of electric vehicle charging path planning, a charging path optimization strategy for electric vehicles is proposed, which is under the “traffic-price-distribution” mode. Moreover, this strate...

Traffic accident investigation has been used to reconstruct the cause and condition of the accident by using images and driving record data that introduce IT technology, and to analyze both sides of the accident, skid marks, and vehicle damage to ide...

Based on the symmetrical public transportation network data of Xi’an, China obtained by geographic information system (GIS) technology in 2019, three urban public transportation indexes of walking accessibility, bus accessibility, and metro acc...

With the widespread popularity of smart home devices and the emergence of smart home integration platforms such as Google, Amazon, and Xiaomi, the smart home industry is in a stage of vigorous development. While smart homes provide users with conveni...

Road traffic injuries are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and currently rank ninth globally among the leading causes of disease burden regarding disability-adjusted life years lost. Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani are parts of the grea...

In recent years, the number of fatal traffic accidents has been on the rise in Taiwan, with a total of 2865 fatalities in 2019, representing a 3% increase from the previous year, and indicating an urgent need for the improvement of Taiwan’s tra...

Taiwan is a highly informational country, and a robust traffic network is not only critical to the national economy, but is also an important infrastructure for economic development. This paper aims to integrate government open data and global positi...

The current paper addresses relevant network security vulnerabilities introduced by network devices within the emerging paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) as well as the urgent need to mitigate the negative effects of some types of Distributed Deni...

Tunnels, a key technology of traffic obfuscation, are increasingly being used to evade censorship. While providing convenience to users, tunnel technology poses a hidden danger to cybersecurity due to its concealment and camouflage capabilities. In c...

This paper describes a method that precisely estimates the position of images of traffic surveillance camera objects. We suggest a projection method with multiple traffic surveillance cameras through a local coordinate system into a global coordinate...

With the rapid advancement of modern society, the demand for efficient and convenient transportation has increased significantly, making traffic congestion a pressing challenge that must be addressed in the process of urban expansion. To effectively...

There have been few studies exploring the relationship between objective and perceived neighborhood built environments, sustainable neighborhood walking behaviors, and the self-rated health of older, low-income adults. This study examined the associa...

Co-working spaces (CWSs) have gradually become a new form of spatial economic activity in large cities in China. This not only innovates the traditional office model, but also helps to realize the efficient utilization of office buildings and the sus...

With the development of the Highway Transportation and Business Trade, vehicle weigh-in-motion (WIM) technology has become a key technology and trend of measuring traffic loads. In this paper, a novel capacitive flexible weighing sensor which is ligh...

The high energy consumption of the lighting installations in highway tunnels has become a hot topic in the last few years due to the high figures in terms of money, consumed energy, use of raw materials, emissions of greenhouse gases due to the remar...

Traffic flow is used as an essential indicator to measure the performance of the road network and a pivotal basis for road classification. However, the combined prediction model of traffic flow based on seasonal characteristics has been given little...

In an upcoming smart transportation environment, performance evaluations of existing Vehicle Detection Systems are crucial to maintain their accuracy. The existing evaluation method for Vehicle Detection Systems is based on a wired Vehicle Detection...

Mobile payment apps have been widely-adopted, which brings great convenience to people’s lives. However, at the same time, user’s privacy is possibly eavesdropped and maliciously exploited by attackers. In this paper, we consider a possib...

Due to the advancements in real-time information communication technologies and sharing economies, rideshare services have gained significant momentum by offering dynamic and/or on-demand services. Rideshare service companies evolved from personal ri...

In the post-epidemic era, balancing epidemic prevention and control with sustainable economic development has become a serious challenge for all countries around the world. In China, a range of interventions include detection policies, clinical treat...

The evolution of communication systems always follows data traffic evolution and further influences innovations that are unlocking new markets and services. While 5G deployment is still ongoing in various countries, data-driven considerations (extrac...

Background: Fine particulate matters with aerodynamic diameters smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) have been a critical environmental problem in China due to the rapid road vehicle growth in recent years. To date, most methods available to estimate...

Road infrastructure has an impact on the occurrence of road traffic crashes. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of road geometric formation on road traffic crashes. Based on the nature, convenience, and availability of data, the study us...

Road safety in primary school areas is a delicate issue due to the vulnerability of children as road users. They are inexperienced traffic participants and sometimes their behavior in traffic situations is unpredictable. This paper reports a safety a...

The reasonable expression of live load and its accuracy are important to the safety and design rationality of highway bridge structures. In this study, the optimization issue of the traffic load model for the suspenders of large-scale suspension brid...

The way in which the occurrence of urban traffic collisions can be conveniently and precisely predicted plays an important role in traffic safety management, which can help ensure urban sustainability. Point of interest (POI) and nighttime light (NTL...

Recognizing ship behavior is important for maritime situation awareness and intelligent transportation management. Some scholars extracted ship behaviors from massive trajectory data by statistical analysis. However, the meaning of the behaviors, i.e...

The explosive growth of the domain of the Internet of things (IoT) network devices has resulted in unparalleled ease of productivity, convenience, and automation, with Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol being widely recognized as an...

This manuscript provides actionable recommendations to enhance user satisfaction and address existing barriers regarding pooled rideshare (PR) in the United States. Despite PR’s intended benefits, such as reduced traffic congestion and cost sav...

With the large-scale construction of high-speed railways and the continuous increase in population flows, railway hubs are becoming the most dynamic places in cities. As a key node of intercity traffic and an important part of urban development, rail...

With the rapid progress of urbanization, cities’ demands for traffic flood control are steadily on the increase, and people are gradually paying more attention to traffic safety and environmental issues. Considering the considerable convenience...

Smart cars have gained much attention in recent years due to the introduction of several safety and convenience features. In this paper, we propose a virtual CANBUS architecture that will improve the safety and data processing in future smart cars wi...