Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems: Recent submissions
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Stopping Sight Distance Requirements for Basic Turbo Roundabouts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Turbo roundabouts, originating from the Netherlands, have been proven to have safety and operations benefits compared to traditional multilane roundabouts. Turbo roundabouts are gradually being adopted by North American ... -
Speed Limit Zone Length Control Strategy under Mixed Traffic Flow Environment: An Approach Considering Variable Speed Limit and Lane Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The rapid advancement of car networking and autonomous driving technologies allows for more sophisticated active traffic management. Several studies have demonstrated variable speed limit (VSL) and lane change (LC) control ... -
Spatiotemporal Multivehicle Interaction Graph Modeling for Proactive Lane-Changing Risk Level Prediction in a Connected Environment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Timely and accurate prediction of lane-changing (LC) risk is crucial for drivers to make safe LC decisions. This study proposes a spatiotemporal attention graph neural network model (STAG) based on multivehicle interaction ... -
Spatial–Temporal Resource Assignment for Variable Guidance Lanes under the Intelligent Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperative Environment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Due to the increased frequency and magnitude of changes in urban road traffic demand, temporal resource optimization alone is no longer effective in alleviating congestion at intersections. A spatial resource optimization ... -
Spatial Layout Optimization Approach for Highway Variable Speed Limit Zones Based on Improved Q-Learning Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Variable speed limit (VSL) is a commonly used traffic control method to optimize the mainstream of highways. In previous studies, the spatial layout design of VSL zones (including quantity, length, and position) was ... -
Short-Term Bus Passenger Flow Prediction Based on BiLSTM Neural Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In order to analyze the passenger flow characteristics of single line bus and improve the operation of public transportation vehicles through combination optimization, this paper establishes a short-term bus passenger flow ... -
Reliable Autonomous Driving Environment Perception: Uncertainty Quantification of Semantic Segmentation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Despite the impressive achievements of computer vision technologies such as semantic segmentation, their applications in safety-critical areas, such as autonomous driving, present substantial challenges, particularly in ... -
Real-Time Traffic Flow Uncertainty Quantification Based on Nonparametric Probability Density Function Estimation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Traffic flow uncertainty quantification is important for making reliable decisions in transportation operations. Compared with well-studied level prediction or point prediction models, the study of uncertainty quantification ... -
Real-Time Distracted Driving Detection Based on GM-YOLOv8 on Embedded Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Traffic accidents caused by drivers’ actions are worrying since they result in significant losses of life and property. Due to the advancement of deep learning and computer vision technology, driver monitoring and assistance ... -
Queue Length Estimation on Urban Signalized Intersection Combining Automatic Vehicle Identification and Vehicle Trajectory Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Queue length is one of the indicators of the state of traffic and is often used to measure the operational state of signalized intersections. Many studies have proposed estimating queue length from vehicle trajectory data ... -
Predicting Regional-Level Bus Stop Passenger Flow with a Multigraph Fusion Spatio-Temporal Graph Attention Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Bus stop passenger flow prediction is a key component in developing urban intelligent transit systems. Bus line networks are usually complex nonlinear time-varying systems, which poses a challenge for constructing the ... -
Identifying Risky Driving Behaviors through Vehicle Trajectories Collected by On-Road Millimeter-Wave Radars
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Policymakers demonstrate a keen interest in understanding risky driving behaviors to formulate effective countermeasures aimed at reducing accidents and economic losses. With the increasing deployment of millimeter-wave ... -
Role of Freeway Ramp Geometry on Driver Acceleration and Merging Behavior
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Design guidelines for freeway ramp entrances are based on speed and acceleration data collected before 1950. This study investigated driver behavior over the entire freeway entrance area, including the ramp, the acceleration ... -
Optimization of Periodic Train Schedule with Flexible Train Composition during Off-Peak Periods for Urban Rail Transit
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Focusing on the insufficient passenger demand during off-peak periods in urban rail transit, a new train operation mode with flexible train composition considering trains couple/decouple at intermediate stations is proposed. ... -
Understanding the Influence of Behavioral Intention for Using an Electric Carsharing System: Hierarchical Hybrid Choice Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)An electric carsharing system (ECS) is a crucial component in the development of a sustainable transportation system. Understanding user behavior toward ECS is essential for successfully implementing such a service. This ... -
Method for Coordinated Passenger Inflow Control Strategy of Metro with Flexible Control Time Step Considering Long–Short Route Pattern
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In metropolises with large populations, some metro lines tend to have particularly high train load rates during peak hours, causing passengers to be stranded for several times on the platforms of some stations, triggering ... -
Enhancing Road Safety: Real-Time Classification of Low Visibility Foggy Weather Using ABNet Deep-Learning Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Frequent highway accidents occur in the Guizhou region, among which poor visibility due to fog is one of the main causative factors. In this region, traditional large-scale, high-computational-power fog monitoring systems ... -
Energy-Efficient Timetabling Approach Considering Varying Train Loads and Realistic Speed Profiles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Energy saving has become a key concern of metro systems to reduce operating costs and meet the requirements of sustainable development. Energy-efficient timetabling, an effective way to reduce traction energy consumption, ... -
Optimization of Bus Bridging Strategy for Two Bus Types during Planned Metro Disruptions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)When planned metro disruptions occur, the connectivity of the metro network is severely reduced, impacting the travel of a large number of commuters. The duration of planned metro disruptions varies from a few days to ... -
Lane Change Behavior Patterns and Risk Analysis in Expressway Weaving Areas: Unsupervised Data-Mining Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The occurrence of accidents in expressway weaving areas is significantly influenced by frequent lane change maneuvers. Acquiring the lane change behavior pattern characteristics of vehicles in this area can provide prior ...