Abstract: Many North American jurisdictions are creating walkable urban environments through compact Complete Streets (CS) geometric designs, while not addressing the mobility and accessibility of goods despite the essential role ...

Abstract: Truck travel, normally expressed in terms of truck vehicle-distance travel (VDT), is a critical data requirement for the design, construction, operation, and management of rural highway systems. The need to estimate and ...

Abstract: The total cost of road construction comprises direct costs paid by agencies and indirect costs paid by road users. In densely populated urban areas, work zone instigated user costs could outweigh direct costs and therefore ...

Abstract: This article develops and validates an algorithm to estimate the lateral position of wheel-rail contact and the corresponding rail profile radius. The lateral contact position and contact radius are two novel rail profile ...

Abstract: This paper reviews the effectiveness and costs of strategies to improve roadbed stability in permafrost regions, based on a synthesis of literature findings. Roadbeds in permafrost regions experience instability when the ...

Abstract: This article develops and applies a Gaussian mixture modeling approach to characterize payload distributions and calculate mean payloads for the 14 predominant axle configuration–body type pairs operating in Manitoba, ...