Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems: Recent submissions

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    • Development of Decision-Support System for Managing Highway Safety 

      Athanasios P. Chassiakos; Christina Panagolia; Dimitrios D. Theodorakopoulos (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      Road maintenance in Greece has not sufficiently addressed safety problems in the past. In an effort to assist maintenance agencies in justifying safety improvement and resource allocation decisions, a computerized system ...

    • Reducing Boarding and Alighting Accident Rates on Mixed High and Low Platform Railroad Lines through Car and Station Design 

      Edward K. Morlok; Bradley F. Nitzberg (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      Analysis of actual accident experience in the United States from 1995 to 2000 has revealed that railroad commuter services using a combination of high and low level platforms exhibit a higher injury rate in boarding and ...

    • Characterizing Effective Built-In Curling from Concrete Pavement Field Measurements 

      Shreenath Rao; Jeffery R. Roesler (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      Instrumented concrete slabs were constructed in Palmdale, Calif., in order to fail the slab sections under accelerated pavement testing. Prior to fatigue failure testing, these slabs were monitored over

    • Exploration of the Relationships between Operating Speed and Roadway Features on Tangent Sections 

      Kay Fitzpatrick; Shaw-Pin Miaou; Marcus Brewer; Paul Carlson; Mark D. Wooldridge (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      The transportation profession is seeking to better understand the features that influence roadway speeds. Engineers need an appreciation of which roadway design features, or the values for the features, clearly relate to ...

    • Analysis of Emulsion and Hot Asphalt Cement Chip Seal Performance 

      Douglas D. Gransberg; Musharraf Zaman (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      The study collected both design and performance data on 342 chip seal projects worth nearly $30 million that had been completed in the Texas Department of Transportation’s Atlanta District since 1996. One hundred sixty ...

    • Fatigue Characteristics of Superpave and Hveem Mixtures 

      Elie Y. Hajj; Peter E. Sebaaly; Dean Weitzel (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      A study was conducted to evaluate the fatigue characteristics of hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures designed using the Superpave volumetric method and Nevada’s Hveem method. Fatigue characteristics were evaluated using the ...

    • Modeling the Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Sign Occlusion at Multilane Highways 

      Ahmed Al-Kaisy; Jigar Bhatt; Hesham Rakha (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      The research presented in this paper is concerned with modeling the occlusion of ground-mounted traffic signs by heavy vehicles on multilane highways. It is part of a more extensive research effort to examine the different ...

    • Prediction of Road Surface Friction Coefficient Using Only Macro- and Microtexture Measurements 

      Murat Ergun; Sukriye Iyinam; A. Faik Iyinam (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      This paper explains the prediction of road surface friction coefficient from macro- and microtexture parameters. Road sections on the Belgian road network with different road surface characteristics are chosen for friction, ...

    • Heavy Off-Road Vehicle Tire-Pavement Interactions and Response 

      Raj V. Siddharthan; Peter E. Sebaaly; Magdy El-Desouky; Dan Strand; David Huft (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      In 2000, the South Dakota Department of Transportation sponsored a research study to evaluate the impact of off-road vehicles on flexible pavements. This project included field pavement responses measured under a variety ...

    • Road Safety: Discussion of State of Practice 

      Gary S. Spring (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      This paper presents an overview of current issues in road safety, describes some promising areas of research and provides an introduction for the papers contained in this special issue of the

    • Prohibiting Left-Turn Movements at Mid-Block Unsignalized Driveways: Simulation Analysis 

      Mashrur Chowdhury; Nichole Derov; Paulin Tan; Adel Sadek (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      In recent years, there has been major interest in “access management” as a new response to the ubiquitous traffic congestion problem. Among the different access management strategies is the idea of prohibiting left-turn ...

    • Modeling the Large Scale Disruptions of an Airline Network 

      Milan Janić (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      When the large-scale disruptions of airline networks occur, they can cause significant deterioration of the planned schedule. Such deterioration shows up in the form of long delays, rerouting and/or cancellation of flights. ...

    • New Approaches for the Earth Distribution Method 

      Kemal Selçuk Ögüt (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      This paper presents two new approaches for the earth distribution method, which is currently being used in highway and railway projects. These approaches are aimed at revising the form of the mass diagram and the earth ...

    • Evaluation of Traffic Signal Displays for Protected-Permissive Left-Turn Control Using Driving Simulator Technology 

      Michael A. Knodler Jr.; David A. Noyce; Kent C. Kacir; Christopher L. Brehmer (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      The objective of this research was to determine the safety and effectiveness of selected protected/permissive left-turn (PPLT) signal displays through driver comprehension evaluations. Driver evaluations were conducted ...

    • Population Origin–Destination Estimation Using Automatic Vehicle Identification and Volume Data 

      Michael P. Dixon; L. R. Rilett (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      The focus of this paper is the use of information from automatic vehicle identification (AVI) systems to help estimate short-term trip origin–destination (OD) matrices in an urban environment. In this paper, a method is ...

    • Vehicle Speed Profiles to Minimize Work and Fuel Consumption 

      David J. Chang; Edward K. Morlok (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      This paper addresses the question of what speed profile will minimize fuel consumption of a land transport vehicle (road or rail) in traversing a path or route. Numerous previous studies, using a control theory approach ...

    • Environmental Effects on the Behavior of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements 

      Jin-Hoon Jeong; Dan G. Zollinger (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      A concrete slab was constructed at Texas A&M University to investigate environmental effects in terms of temperature and moisture effects on the behavior of jointed plain concrete pavements. The slab behavior was delineated ...

    • The Network Signal Design Problem for Long-Range Travel Forecasting 

      Alan J. Horowitz; Minnie H. Patel (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      The network signal design problem (NSDP) seeks the optimal deployment of traffic signals in a growing urban area. This paper is especially concerned with how signals may be optimally deployed over a very long period of ...

    • Costs of Right-of-Way Acquisition: Methods and Models for Estimation 

      Jared D. Heiner; Kara M. Kockelman (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      Transportation infrastructure and other major projects often require the taking of real property, or right-of-way (ROW). Accurate estimation procedures are needed to facilitate budgeting and timely completion of projects. ...

    • Performance-Based Models for Flexible Pavement Structural Overlay Design 

      Khaled A. Abaza (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)
      Performance of flexible pavement has long been recognized as an important parameter in the design of flexible pavements. Pavement surface condition evaluated using visual inspection is periodically done to assess pavement ...