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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Organized Traffic Interweaving: Cooperative Trajectory Control of Vehicles Merging from Exit Ramps onto Surface Streets
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Vehicle weaving conflicts at the connecting areas between exit ramps and adjacent intersections pose a significant traffic challenge. These conflicts, precipitated by the influence of lane layout, result in unavoidable ... -
Operational Design Domain of Automated Vehicles at Freeway Exit Terminals
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the advancement of automated driving technology, ensuring the operational safety of automated vehicles (AVs) has become a research focus. AVs at freeway exit terminals face high risks due to diverging operations and ... -
Network-Wide Evacuation Traffic Prediction in a Rapidly Intensifying Hurricane from Traffic Detectors and Facebook Movement Data: Deep-Learning Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Traffic prediction during hurricane evacuation is essential for optimizing the use of transportation infrastructures. Traffic prediction can reduce evacuation time by providing information in advance on future congestion. ... -
Naturalistic Experiment for Surface Transportation: A Study of Snowplow Lighting under Winter Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Inclement winter weather poses a safety risk to all road users, primarily due to roads covered with snow or ice and substantially reduced visibility. The winter road maintenance vehicles used are often larger and slower ... -
Multicolumn Self-Attention GRU Model for Intersection Vehicle Trajectory Prediction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Trajectory prediction plays a crucial and indispensable role in autonomous driving, enhancing safety and reliability, particularly in complex intersections with variable vehicle trajectories. This study aims to investigate ... -
MPC-Based Method for Intersection Control in Mixed Traffic Environments with Autonomous Vehicles, Human-Driven Vehicles, and Pedestrians
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will inevitably share the road with human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and pedestrians for a long time in the near future. The paper introduces an intersection management method that comprehensively ... -
Modeling the Severity of Right-Turn Crossing Conflicts at Unsignalized T-Intersections Using a Random-Parameter Binary Logit Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In India, unsignalized T-intersections are more complex for the right-turn movement of vehicular traffic, which leads to serious crashes. The existing surrogate safety measures are not effective in computing the severity ... -
Modeling Lateral Acceleration on Ramp Curves for Consistency-Based Geometric Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Previous interchange safety research has primarily focused on crash and operating speed prediction models, with no extensive evaluation related to the impact of different ramp types on lateral acceleration. The objective ... -
Modeling and Operational Performance Evaluation of Driveway Assistance Devices for Lane Closures on Two-Lane Highway Work Zones
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Lane closures on two-lane highways due to work zone activities negatively impact traffic operational performance. In addition, traffic from access points (e.g., commercial and residential driveways or minor side roads) ... -
Lateral Control Strategy of Autonomous Trucks Allowing for the Durability of Bridge Deck Pavement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The durability of bridge deck pavement significantly influences the economic gains from bridge maintenance and transportation efficiency. With the increasing application of autonomous trucks (ATs) in highway bridges, there ... -
Joint Optimization of Speed and Holding Time Control for Bus Rapid Transit: A Multiobjective Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the increased service quality standards from the demand side and competitions from the supply side, bus transit is facing great challenges. With exclusive lanes and specialized platforms, bus rapid transit (BRT) brings ... -
Investigating Risk Factors Affecting Crash Frequency on the Expressways in India: A Random Parameters Negative Binomial Modeling Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Despite the high crash rate and rapid expansion of the Indian expressways network, there is a shortage of studies analyzing the risk factors contributing to traffic crashes on these roads. The current study addresses this ... -
Investigating Factors that Influence the Location and Time Intervals between Primary Incidents and Secondary Crashes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Mitigating secondary crashes is one of the priorities in traffic incident management, but limited information on these incidents can hinder the selection of appropriate mitigation efforts. This study aimed to investigate ... -
Informer–SVR: Traffic Volume Prediction Hybrid Model Considering Residual Autoregression Correction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Predicting daily traffic volumes is essential for planning freeway infrastructure. Daily traffic volumes on freeways have complex time dependencies and submodal variations. Transformer, a deep learning model based on the ... -
Implementation of Multilayer Perceptron and Radial Basis Function Neural Networks for Estimating Roundabout-Entry Traffic Flow
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Roundabouts capacity is a critical aspect when assessing the feasibility of constructing them. This research examines 50 entry lanes of 15 roundabouts in Greece, both single-lane and multilane. Traffic flows, geometric ... -
Impacts of Automated Vehicles in a Mixed Environment on Intersection Sight Distance at Uncontrolled Intersections
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Mixed vehicle traffic of driver-operated vehicles (DVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) on roadways in the future will result in four interaction types between these two vehicle types, impacting current intersection sight ... -
Advancing Automatic Asset Management: An Edge-Based US-Specific Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition System Based on Image Processing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Effective asset management is crucial in transportation systems, guaranteeing the optimal use, upkeep, and durability of infrastructure, which in turn boosts the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of travel networks. ... -
Identifying the Effects of Geometric and Operational Parameters on Merging Speed and Breakdown Probability at Expressway Merge Segments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Merging segments frequently experience traffic breakdowns as traffic flow shifts from free-flow conditions to congestion. This transition is primarily attributed to the arrival of vehicles from on-ramps onto expressways, ... -
Fusing Physics-Based and Data-Driven Models for Car-Following Modeling: A Particle Filter Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Microscopic modeling of vehicle movements and interactions is pivotal in traffic flow theory. Physics-based car-following (CF) models using mathematical formulations can delineate driving behavior in various traffic ... -
Forecasting Freeway Traffic Volumes with Adverse Weather via a CNN-BiLSTM-Attention Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Forecasting traffic volumes under adverse weather in advance contributes to allocating traffic resources for traffic managers and formulating optimal travel strategies for travelers, which assists in preventing and offsetting ...