The effects of traffic loads on existing bridges are quite different from those of design live loads because of the various traffic environments. However, the bridge maintenance and safety assessment of in-service bridges maintain the design load cap...
With the steadily growing of global transportation market, the traffic load has increased dramatically over the past decades, which may develop into a risk source for existing bridges. The simultaneous presence of heavy trucks that are random in natu...
According to modern structural codes, a design is considered to be adequate if the limit states are not exceeded. For the ultimate limit state, the design value of action effect Ed is required to be less or equal than the design value of ultimate res...
Urban traffic congestion is a significant challenge faced by cities globally, resulting in delays, increased emissions, and diminished quality of life. This study introduces an innovative traffic load-balancing algorithm developed as part of the IN2C...
Highway subgrade bears millions of traffic loads over the years, and its strength, stiffness, and long-term stability gradually decline. In this paper, dynamic triaxial tests were carried out to study the time evolution and spatial distribution of st...
The disturbance depth of traffic load has a direct impact on the stability of a room-and-pillar mining goaf. To quantitatively calculate the relationship between the traffic load disturbance depth and influencing factors, 49 groups of horizontal comb...
This study focuses on creating and investigating models that optimize load balancing in communication networks by managing routing and traffic limitations. The purpose is to use these models to optimize the network’s routing and traffic limitat...
Traffic loads are the primary external loads on bridges during their service life. However, an accurate analysis of the long-term effect of the operating traffic load is difficult because of the diversity of traffic flow in terms of vehicle type and...
The symmetric wireless network has been expected to be a revolutionary technology for mobile communications. Due to the limited resources of the microbase stations in the wireless network, the way to jointly optimize resource allocation, traffic thro...
It has been shown in the literature that the lifetime of a wireless sensor network is heavily connected to the number of transmissions that network nodes have to undertake. Considering this finding, along with the effects of the energy hole problem w...
The paper presents a novel charging load prediction model for electric vehicles that takes into account traffic conditions and ambient temperature, which are often overlooked in conventional EV load prediction models. Additionally, the paper investig...
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...
Cities face a significant challenge due to increasing traffic congestion and the rising number of vehicles. Developed countries have introduced smart traffic management systems as a solution to mitigate congestion and improve traffic flow. These syst...
The Brazilian code NBR 7188 for highway bridge design prescribes a live load model consisting of a 3-axle vehicle plus a uniform load, which are both affected by an impact factor when considering dynamic effects. It does not play out actual traffic s...
This study was conducted to investigate the applicability of measuring internet traffic as an input of short-term electricity demand forecasts. We believe our study makes a significant contribution to the literature, especially in short-term load pre...
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...
Currently, more studies are focusing on traffic classification in software-defined networks (SDNs). Accurate classification and selecting the appropriate controller have benefited from the application of machine learning (ML) in practice. In this res...
The rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) mobile broadband networks and Internet of Things (IoT) applications has led to significant increases in data transmission and processing, resulting in severe traffic congestion. To better allocate networ...
Polymer anti-seepage walls have been widely used in the anti-seepage reinforcement projects of earth dams. Dam crest is always supposed to meet the requirements of traffic load which has significant influence on the dam body and anti-seepage wall. In...
The high-density polyethylene (HDPE) double-wall corrugated pipe, which is a kind of flexible pipe, is widely used in municipal drainage networks. The characteristics of the surrounding soil and pipe bed, pipe cover depth, backfill compaction, type o...
In collaborative body sensor networks, namely wireless body area networks(WBANs), each of the physical sensor applications is used to collaboratively monitor thehealth status of the human body. The applications of WBANs comprise diverse and dynamictr...
In view of the high-sensitivity vibration effect of precision instrument laboratory buildings under the influence of surrounding traffic loads, field micro-vibration tests under various working conditions were carried out based on actual projects. Co...
This study proposes a charging demand forecasting model for electric vehicles (EVs) that takes into consideration the characteristics of EVs with transportation and mobile load. The model utilizes traffic information to evaluate the influence of traf...
The variation in road cross slope with service life affects the pavement drainage and has an adverse effect on vehicle operation safety. This paper describes a cross-slope variation prediction method influenced by the coupling effect of traffic load...
Backbone satellites in a space information network (SIN) can be used as air base stations or data relay satellites (DRSs) to realize cross-system, cross-network and long-distance relay transmission. In this paper, a traffic load optimization problem...
Due to increased air traffic flow, air traffic controllers (ATCs) operate in a state of high load or even overload for long periods of time, which can seriously affect the reliability and efficiency of controllers’ commands. Thus, the early ide...
A reliable and accurate monitoring of traffic load is of significance for the operational management and safety assessment of bridges. Traditional weight-in-motion techniques are capable of identifying moving vehicles with satisfactory accuracy and s...
A predictive model for the spatiotemporal distribution of electric vehicle (EV) charging load is proposed in this paper, considering multimodal travel behavior and microscopic traffic simulation. Firstly, the characteristic variables of travel time a...
Avoiding soil compaction is one of the objectives to ensure sustainable agriculture. Subsoil compaction in particular can be irreversible. Frequent passages by (increasingly heavy) agricultural machinery are one trigger for compaction. The aim of thi...
Uncertainties in traffic flows pose significant challenges for the accurate fatigue safety assessment of bridge structures. Fatigue analysis requires detailed information on heavy vehicle-induced loads, which can be obtained from weigh-in-motion (WIM...
Addressing the data scarcity and complex consumption characteristics in mid-to-long-term electricity load forecasting for new canals, this study proposes a novel model based on navigation traffic volume cascade mapping. A multidimensional feature mat...
This study performs a comprehensive experimental analysis of the dynamic response of geocell-reinforced sandy subgrades exposed to traffic-induced loading. A series of laboratory tests were performed using a custom-manufactured loading apparatus capa...
The accurate identification of traffic loads acting on bridges provides an effective basis for the traffic control and operation of in-service bridges. To improve the efficiency and accuracy of loading identification, we propose an efficient multipar...
This paper examines the nature of traffic loading in recurrent congested traffic conditions on a long-span suspension bridge. Traffic flow and percentage of trucks are extracted from image data and a cluster analysis performed to classify the data in...
Concrete pipes are widely used in municipal drainage projects. Corrosion is a common issue affecting concrete pipes, causing leakage of pipes, environmental pollution, and road collapse. It is necessary to study the mechanical properties of corroded...
Prefabricated cantilever systems (PCSs) are essential for mountainous road infrastructure, yet their structural behavior under traffic loads remains insufficiently studied. This study innovatively integrates scaled experiments, finite element simulat...
Roadbeds constructed on soft clay foundations often experience substantial post-construction settlement under long-term traffic loading. To investigate this phenomenon, numerical simulations were conducted to study the vibration response of various r...
With electric vehicles (EVs) pouring into infrastructure systems, coupled traffic and energy transportation networks (CTETNs) can be applied to capture the interactions between the power grids and transportation networks. However, most research has f...
As a critical component of a suspension bridge, the integrity of the suspenders plays a critical role in the serviceability and reliability of the bridge during its life time. Despite the wide recognition of the importance of the suspenders, very few...
The transport of information packets in complex networks is a prototype system for the study of traffic jamming, a nonlinear dynamic phenomenon that arises with increased traffic load and limited network capacity. The underlying mathematical framewor...
Load is a key magnitude for studying network performance for large-scale wireless sensor networks that are expected to support pervasive applications like personalized health-care, smart city and smart home, etc., in assistive environments (e.g., tho...
The inter-cycle sleep design previously proposed as a power-saving scheme for next-generation Ethernet passive optical networks (NG-EPONs) is able to effectively decrease the power consumption of heavy-load traffic. However, with a medium to high tra...
In road construction, a large number of excavated soils need to be treated with stabilizers. The addition of superabsorbent polymer (SAP) can improve the road performance of these stabilized soils. In order to predict roadbed deformation, dynamic tri...
The study of traffic parameters in cities is the basis for making adequate decisions related to the organization and regulation of traffic. This publication presents a study of one of the main parameters of transport flows, namely, its intensity. The...
Mobile social networks suffer from an unbalanced traffic load distribution due to the heterogeneity in mobility of nodes (humans) in the network. A few nodes in these networks are highly mobile, and the proposed social-based routing algorithms are li...
This paper examines how the unidirectional alignment of a selected street affects traffic load at nearby signal-controlled intersections. Using the Aimsun 8 simulation model, the intersections in the city of Topoľčany were evaluated. A simu...
To reveal the mechanical characteristics of BRT asphalt pavement structures under the combined effects of the temperature field and load of buses, a series of finite element analysis models were established in the software application ABAQUS to simul...
It is beneficial to the sustainable development of expressway engineering to reuse excavated soil as roadbed filling material. There are a large number of filling projects using loess as a filling material in Northwest China. In this paper, the loess...
Atmospheric precipitation leads to the increase of moisture in the subgrade. The moisture and soil migration in subgrade is a key scientific problem in evaluating the service performance of the subgrade and resolving or preventing mud pumping. Using...
Deflection measurements are usually used as a key index in civil engineering for performing structural assessments of bridge safety. However, owing to technical or cost issues, it may be difficult to implement long-term monitoring of bridge deflectio...
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