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Smart city initiatives highlight the vital role of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which remain underexplored with limited AI-driven solutions integration in real-time urban traffic management across African cities. ITS is crucial to enhanc...

Travel time reliability (TTR) is a key mobility performance measure for roadway systems. Intelligent Transportation Systems have enabled transportation agencies and researchers to use large-scale travel time data for evaluating TTR. The United States...

Climate change has the potential to influence many aspects of wildfire behavior and risk. During the last decade, Greece has experienced large-scale wildfire phenomena with unprecedented fire behavior and impacts. In this study, thousands of wildfire...

Evaluation of the railway network distribution and its impacts on social and economic development has great significance for building an efficient and comprehensive railway system. To address the lack of evaluation indicators to assess the railway ne...

The information level of the urban public transport system is constantly improving, which promotes the use of smart cards by passengers. The OD (origination–destination) travel time of passengers reflects the temporal and spatial distribution o...

This research examines the traffic disruptions resulting from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, utilizing advanced econometric methods and real-time ClearGuide data. Employing Fixed Effects (FEs), Mixed Effects (MEs), Differe...

Usage-Based Insurance (UBI) is an insurance framework that has made its appearance in the last few years. It allows direct measurement of the traveling of policyholders, hence the growing interest of the industry to better understand driving behavior...

In seeking sustainable, safe, and efficient school commuting tours as non-recurring sources of congestion, it is essential to investigate the dynamic interaction between school students’ pick-up and drop-off (P&D) movements and the traffic...

Travel time variability (TTV) is a crucial indicator of transportation network performance, assessing travel time reliability and delays. This study investigates TTV metrics within the context of shared mobility using probe data from transportation n...

Human travel plays a crucial role in the spread of infectious disease between regions. Travel of infected individuals from one region to another can transport a virus to places that were previously unaffected or may accelerate the spread of disease i...

This study attempts to investigate a method for creating an index from mobility data that not only correlates with the number of people who relocate to a place, but also has causal influence on the number of such individuals. By creating an index bas...

To carry out the estimation and reliability research of post-earthquake traffic travel time, which has the great influence for efficient allocation of relief materials. By analyzing the relationship among floating vehicle trajectory, target path and...

Travel equity has always been an important but difficult topic in urban traffic research, especially for different groups. Firstly, based on bus operation, this paper constructs the ride change network using the ArcGIS platform. Secondly, through net...

Network reliability reflects a system’s ability to perform specified functions under specified topological and traffic conditions. Network reliability is the weighted sum of connection reliability and travel time reliability. Based on complex n...

The study developed a PID-based automatic control system for travel speed based on the analysis of the entire machine structure of the 4UM-120D electric leafy vegetable harvester to enhance the operation quality of the harvester and lessen the worklo...

We study the problem of quickly computing point-to-point shortest paths in massive road networks with traffic predictions. Incorporating traffic predictions into routing allows, for example, to avoid commuter traffic congestions. Existing techniques...

Parks are an important component of the green infrastructure in cities. They provide multiple benefits for residents’ life. Due to the uneven spatial distribution of parks, it is necessary to evaluate the spatial disparity about residents&rsquo...

Travel time is one of the most critical indexes to describe urban traffic operating states. How to obtain accurate and robust travel time estimates, so as to facilitate to make traffic control decision-making for administrators and trip-planning for...

Time reliability in a Rail Transit Network (RTN) is usually measured according to clock-based trip time, while the travel conditions such as travel comfort and convenience cannot be reflected by clock-based trip time. Here, the crowding level of trai...

In order to solve the problem of poor local optimization of the Slime Mold Algorithm (SMA) in the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), a Two-way Parallel Slime Mold Algorithm by Flow and Distance (TPSMA) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the flow bet...

How to effectively and accurately evaluate and analyze the volatility and reliability of travel speed on urban road before and after students back to school is a hot and key problem in urban road traffic congestion governance research. The Beijing 3r...

Social infrastructure is provided to improve the quality of life of residents. There are two approaches to social infrastructure planning: (1) a population-based approach and (2) an access-based approach. A plan for the social infrastructure faciliti...

With the decarbonization of the transportation sector and the diversification of travel demand, the development of shared electric vehicles has become crucial. Based on survey data of travel mode and destination of shared electric vehicles in Beijing...

In the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine accessibility was limited, impacting large metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles County, which has over 10 million residents but only nine initial vaccination sites, which resulted in people expe...

In a context where daily car use is a spontaneous and habitual choice for a wide majority of the population, the quality of the alternatives to individual motorized vehicles is a major factor in encouraging modal shift. The ease of access to public t...

This article employs two indexes—accessibility and effective service ratio (ESR)—to assess the spatial distribution of urban parks with the consideration of both equity and efficiency. Traditional approaches to calculate these two indexes...

Traffic conditions are usually characterized from the perspective of travel time or the average vehicle speed in the field of transportation, reflecting the congestion degree of a road network. This article provides a method from a new perspective to...

The geographical accessibility to hospitals relies on the configuration of the hospital network, spatial impedance and population distribution. This paper explores the potential geographic accessibility of the population to public hospitals in Romani...

Planning future electric vehicle charging infrastructure requires assessment of spatial suitability, demand, network gaps, and expected accessibility benefits. This study developed a national-scale framework for Bosnia and Herzegovina integrating mac...

A large body of research on transit accessibility emphasizes the importance of methods to simulating the real-world travel process. Few efforts have been made to conduct empirical research and comparative analysis of overall city-level transit access...

The decisions managing all modes of transportation are currently based on the traffic rate and travel time. However, other factors such as Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, the sustainability index, fuel consumption, and travel costs are not considere...

Infectious disease transmission can be greatly influenced by human mobility. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Government implemented travel restriction policies to mitigate the impact of the disease or even block the transmission chain of it...

Traffic congestion caused by left-turning vehicles in a coordinated corridor is a multifaceted problem requiring tailored solutions. This study explores the impact of shared left-turn lanes within one-way couplets, particularly during peak hours, whe...

Background: The successful implementation of an equitable lung cancer screening program requires consideration of factors that influence accessibility to screening services. Methods: Using lung cancer cases in British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a prox...

A stochastic cold chain (SCC) is a common supply chain in real life that emphasizes the need for commodities to arrive fresh within time constraints. In previous research on supply chains, the time factor was regarded as a fixed number. However, the...

Older adults are an important part of the world’s population. Many researchers have worked on walking as a mode of transport and measuring walking access. However, considering older adults (aged 65 and over) walk time, older population, and old...

Positioning and tracking of containers is becoming an urgent demand of container transportation. Map matching algorithms have been widely applied to correct positioning errors. Because container trajectories have the characteristics of low sampling r...

Existing Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) models assign traffic flow with the principle of travel time, which are easy to distribute most of the traffic flows on the shortest path. A serious unbalance of traffic flow in the network can speed up pavem...

As an important part of urban public transport, bus service quality is an important factor affecting the choice of passenger travel mode. This paper constructs a set of satisfaction evaluation indicator systems from the perspective of passenger perce...

The primary objective of this study is to explore spatio-temporal effects of the built environment on station-based travel distances through large-scale data processing. Previous studies mainly used global models in the causal analysis, but spatial a...

Spatial accessibility to education represents a key component of spatial justice, yet significant disparities persist between urban and rural areas in Romania. The present paper introduces the concept of education deserts as settlements where the pop...

The current study examines how different types of passengers (elders, travelers with luggage, travelers without luggage, and mixed population) affect the evacuation process in railway tunnels after a fire accident based on Fractional Effective Dose (...

Understanding traffic congestion in urban areas is crucial for ensuring mobility, especially in metropolitan cities of developing countries. This study presents new spatial and temporal data to analyze congestion in Casablanca. Spatial data, collecte...

This paper is concerned with the stability of an age-structured susceptible–exposed– infective–recovered–susceptible (SEIRS) model with time delay. Firstly, the traveling wave solution of system can be obtained by using the me...

For wildland firefighters, the ability to efficiently evacuate the fireline is limited by terrain, vegetation, and fire conditions. The impacts of terrain and vegetation on evacuation time to a safety zone may not be apparent when considering potenti...

Detection of air bubbles in fluidic channels plays a fundamental role in all that medical equipment where liquids flow inside patients’ blood vessels or bodies. In this work, we propose a multi-parameter sensing system for simultaneous recognit...

One of the key challenges for city authorities is to ensure an adequate quality of life for residents while promoting sustainable urban development. Achieving this balance is closely related to transport management which strongly affects urban qualit...

As part of transportation planning processes, simulators are used to mirror real-world situations to test new policies and evaluate infrastructure changes. In practice, simulator selection has often been based on availability rather than on technical...

Healthcare accessibility has become an issue of social equity. An accurate estimation of existing healthcare accessibility is vital to plan and allocate health resources. Healthcare capacity, population demand, and geographic impedance are three esse...

Accessible tourism is a critical aspect of sustainable development, yet many Southeast Asian destinations lack sufficient infrastructure and services for elderly and disabled travelers. This study develops a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) fr...