Abstract: Heavy metal contaminated soils can be a long-term environmental concern and a potential financial liability to landowners. Hence, the assessment of heavy metal contaminated soil has received much attention in the last few ...

Abstract: The goals of this paper are to (1) provide a review of the recently developed measures for assessing the quality of origin-destination (O-D) trip tables estimated from traffic counts and (2) propose a new generalized demand ...

Abstract: A government-funded research project was initiated to investigate the suitability and potential benefit of applying land use forecasting models in Hong Kong. Part of the project involves the development of a new technique ...

Abstract: Consider a city, with multiple regional activity centers (RACs), in which the locations of traveler demand are continually dispersed. The total demand generated from a particular location in the city is fixed, but the ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the modeling of the complex demand-supply relationship in urban taxi services. A neural network model is developed, based on a taxi service situation observed in the urban area of Hong Kong. ...

Abstract: This paper compares two types of circulatory markings at a double-lane traffic roundabout: the concentric marking scheme and the Alberta marking scheme. The effects of these two marking schemes on drivers’ lane choice ...

Abstract: This paper presents a gray system theory-based method for the quantitative evaluation and ranking of the operational and safety performance of signalized intersections in urban areas under mixed traffic conditions. Mixed ...

Abstract: Traffic speed is one of the basic variables that indicates the level of service of a road entity. It plays an essential role in transportation planning and management. This study attempts to establish a prediction model ...