Abstract: An important advantage of cold-formed steel is the greater flexibility of cross-sectional shapes and sizes available to the structural steel designer. However, the lack of standard optimized shapes makes the selection of ...

Abstract: A multiparadigm general methodology is advanced for development of reliable, efficient, and practical freeway incident detection algorithms. The performance of the new fuzzy-wavelet radial basis function neural network ...

Abstract: Automatic freeway incident detection is an important component of advanced transportation management systems (ATMS) that provides information for emergency relief and traffic control and management purposes. Earlier ...

Abstract: A comprehensive evaluation is presented of the single-station wavelet energy neural network freeway incident-detection algorithm of Karim and Adeli. Quantitative performance measures of detection rate, false alarm rate, ...

Abstract: A case-based reasoning (CBR) model is presented for freeway work zone traffic management. The model considers work zone layout, traffic demand, work characteristics, traffic control measures, and mobility impacts. A four-set ...

Abstract: An adaptive computational model is presented for estimating the work zone capacity and queue length and delay, taking into account the following factors: number of lanes, number of open lanes, work zone layout, length, ...

Abstract: Using the computational neural network model developed recently by the writers, a comprehensive parametric study is performed for global optimization of cold-formed steel I-shape beams based on the American Iron and Steel ...

Abstract: Using the computational neural network model developed by the writers, a comprehensive parametric study is performed for global optimization of cold-formed steel Z-shape beams based on the AISI specification. Design curves ...

Abstract: Traffic incidents are nonrecurrent and pseudorandom events that disrupt the normal flow of traffic and create a bottleneck in the road network. The probability of incidents is higher during peak flow rates when the systemwide ...

Abstract: Recently, the writers developed a general and powerful mathematical model for scheduling construction projects. An optimization formulation was presented with the goal of minimizing the direct construction cost. The nonlinear ...