Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
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EISSN:2473-2893|ISSN:2473-2907|Disc:The Journal of Transportation Engineering contains technical and professional engineering articles on the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of air, highway, rail, and urban transportation systems and infrastructure. Specific topics include management of roads, bridges, and transit systems; traffic management technology and intelligent transportation systems; connected and automated vehicle impacts; highway engineering; railway engineering; and economics, safety, and environmental aspects of transportation|Priority:12|Publisher:American Society of Civil Engineers|
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Research on the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Disturbed Through Vehicles at Signalized Intersections Based on Trajectory Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Disturbances in vehicle trajectories are noticeable in the front section of weaving areas at signalized intersections, primarily due to merging conflicts. These disturbances often pose heightened safety risks. To investigate ... -
Variable–Domain Fuzzy PI Control Strategy for Variable Speed Limits Independent of Critical Density
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Variable speed limit (VSL) systems represent a significant strategy for mitigating standing queues at bottlenecks on freeways. However, the implementation of VSL faces three primary challenges: first, fluctuations in VSL ... -
Subway-Emergency Bridging Strategy for Bus Scheduling Considering Passenger Travel Behavior
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Unplanned subway interval disruptions caused by equipment failures frequently occur in major cities around the world. It is crucial to ensure that passengers can complete their subsequent travel with less delay. Using ... -
Resilience Enhancement of an Urban Rail Transit Network by Optimizing the Locations and Construction Sequences of New Lines: A Scenario Model Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The addition of new lines to an existing urban rail transit (URT) network sequentially helps improve its operation. However, only a few studies have improved URT networks by simultaneously optimizing the locations and ... -
Bus-Pooling: Demand-Driven Flexible Scheduling for Intercity Transit
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The mismatch between static bus schedules and dynamic passenger travel demand results in increased passenger waiting time and inefficient operation for intercity transit. To address this issue, a cross-route bus-pooling ... -
Integrated Optimization of Seat Allocation for High-Speed Trains and Tour Buses Based on Customized Travel Services
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The provision of diverse transportation modes for tourism is primarily driven by individual demand, which ultimately leads to a lack of cohesive capacity allocation among different modes of transportation. This inadequacy ... -
Optimizing Last-Mile Public Transit Services by Leveraging Modular Autonomous Vehicles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Improving the quality of first-mile and last-mile (FMLM) travel services can enhance users’ willingness to use public transportation. However, many current FMLM services often prioritize adapting to public transit over ... -
Improving Bus Trip Generation Modeling Using Mobile Payment Data: An Empirical Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Smart card data (SCD) have been widely used to estimate the effect of built environment on transit ridership. However, most studies have ignored the remaining parts of trips paid in cash, whose share is also sizable, and ... -
Modeling Real Demand in Dockless Bike-Sharing Systems: Integrating User Preferences and Behavioral Insights
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The usage data of dockless bike-sharing (DBS) systems are often used as real data for station location and rebalancing optimization research. However, when DBS users cannot find available bikes at their desired locations, ... -
Max Pressure Signal Control Method for Collaborative Optimization of Motor and Nonmotor Vehicles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study proposes a traffic signal control method based on the max pressure (MP) control algorithm to optimize the coordination of motor and nonmotor vehicles. The vehicle arrival rates at downstream intersections are ... -
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Exclusive Lanes for Autonomous Trucks Considering the Risk of Intrusion into Adjacent Lanes under Crosswinds: Joint Decision of Lane Width and Lateral Control Modes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To quantify the impact of lane width and truck lateral control modes on the life-cycle cost (LCC) and operational safety of exclusive lanes for autonomous trucks (ATs), this study proposes a LCC framework that considers ... -
Real-Time Bottleneck Identification and Graded Variable Speed Limit Control Framework for Mixed Traffic Flow on Highways Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Effective management is essential for maintaining the smooth operation of highways. The graded variable speed limit (GVSL) method enhances traditional speed limit models by dividing the highway into multiple segments and ... -
Integrated Optimization of Vehicle Scheduling and Passenger Assignment of Demand-Responsive Transit and Conventional Buses under Urban Rail Transit Disruptions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urban rail transit systems are vital to urban mobility, yet disruptions may cause significant congestion or delays for passengers. Traditional evacuation strategies, predominantly reliant on conventional buses, could not ... -
Introducing Two New Versions of Continuous Flow and Median U-Turn Combination Intersection Designs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In recent years, departments of transportation (DOTs) have shown an interest in implementing alternative intersections that combine features of two (or more) different designs. However, the current literature on the ... -
Passenger Flow Prediction Based on a Hybrid Method in the Nanjing Metro System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Accurate short-term passenger flow prediction provides key information for operation and management of urban rail transit systems, which is becoming more significant in this field. In this paper, a novel hybrid model ... -
Analysis of Static and Dynamic Track Irregularities on Kilometer-Level High-Speed Railway Bridges Based on Fractal Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The track geometry condition of a kilometer-level high-speed railway (HSR) bridge can have a significant impact on the ride quality of high-speed trains. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of static and dynamic ... -
Route Planning of Freeway Rescue Vehicles Based on Spatial–Temporal Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Timely accident rescue on freeways is critical to reducing the loss of lives and property. However, current cost models lack specificity, and there are no proven algorithms for solving them. Because there are distinct ... -
Cyclist Perception–Reaction Time and Stopping Sight Distance for Unexpected Hazards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Cyclist perception–reaction time and deceleration rate have not been previously measured for unexpected hazards, which is a major knowledge gap for the design of safe bicycle facilities. This research aims to determine the ... -
How Income and Risk Preferences Shape Travel Choices under Uncertainty: Insights from a Multiround Game
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the development of multimodal transportation systems, travelers face various choices to decide how to travel from one place to another. Given uncertainty, former experience, and individual characteristics such as ... -
Radar–Vision Fusion Method for Traffic Event Detection with Roadside Perception
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Detecting traffic flow and events on highways is conventionally dominated by vision-centric approaches and rule-based methods. These systems focus on identifying both micro (e.g., wrong-way driving, abnormal parking, ...