Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems: Recent submissions
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Road Geometry Feasibility for Automated Vehicles with ACC Systems: Vehicle Dynamics on Curved Roads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Automated vehicles equipped with adaptive cruise control systems (ACC-AVs) are prevalent and the ensuing issue is the feasibility of ACC-AVs’ operation on the roads. This study investigates the feasibility of road horizontal ... -
A Study on Surrogate Safety Measures at Unsignalized Intersection Blackspots in a Mixed Traffic Scenario
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Vehicular movement and driver behavior at unsignalized intersections are responsible for increasing the susceptibility to potential crashes. Among them, unsignalized blackspots need serious attention because they have ... -
Estimating Incident Queue Impacts with and without a Traffic Surveillance System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Despite the needs of assessing the time-varying queue length for incident traffic management, such imperative information has not yet been available in practice, due partly to the lack of reliable sensor data on many ... -
Travel Mode Determining Factors for Residents within the Catchment Areas of Urban Rail Transit Stations: Evidence from Nanjing, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Analyzing the travel mode choice behavior of residents within the catchment area of a rail station holds significant importance in optimizing the transportation structure and establishing a green transit–oriented system. ... -
Evaluating Operational Efficiency and Capacity of Park-and-Ride Facilities around Urban Rail Transit Stations Using Data Envelopment Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Park-and-ride (P&R) facilities, when combined with the advantages of urban rail transit, have the potential to alleviate congestion problems and promote multimodal transportation. However, some facilities face operational ... -
Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram-Based Integral Sliding Mode Perimeter Control for Oversaturated Regions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD)-based perimeter control has a potential to improve traffic throughput and relieve the overall congestion. In practice, not only the MFD but also the traffic demand suffers from a variety ... -
An Integrated Sustainability Assessment Framework for Public–Private Partnerships in Highway Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Public–private partnerships (PPPs) and sustainability have received considerable attention in delivery and execution of transportation infrastructure projects in the United States. Existing sustainability rating tools are ... -
Community Structure Division and Ridership Characteristics Analysis of Rail Transit Stations Based on the Louvain Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Expansion of the rail transit network has increased public transportation accessibility, and the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of ridership have become more complex. Herein, the characteristics of rail ... -
Autonomous Vehicle–Pedestrian Interaction Modeling Platform: A Case Study in Four Major Cities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Accurately evaluating the safety effects of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has become more pressing with the increased adoption rate of AVs. This study utilizes a multiagent adversarial inverse reinforcement learning (MAAIRL) ... -
Property of Disturbance Suppression for Bidirectional Multiple-Vehicle Following Vehicular Platoon
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This work aims to investigate the sensitivity to disturbance for the bidirectional multiple-vehicle following (BDM) V2V vehicular platoon. A disturbance term is introduced into the control input, and a closed-loop equation ... -
Simulation Evaluation of a Large-Scale Implementation of Virtual-Phase Link–Based Model Predictive Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Traffic congestion is a serious problem in the US, and traffic signal control is one of the effective solutions to congestion. Previous research on model predictive control (MPC)-based traffic signal control showed substantial ... -
Method to Estimate the Level of Service in Elongated Roundabouts Located on Two-Lane Rural Highways
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In Brazil, roadway intersections are designed based on the precepts contained in manuals prepared by official government agencies and documents such as the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). However, some types of intersections, ... -
PSO-GRNN–Based Adaptive Online Vehicle Velocity Prediction Strategy Considering Traffic Information
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In order to increase the online vehicle velocity prediction (VVP) strategy’s forecast performance, an adaptive VVP strategy considering traffic signals is presented for multiple scenarios. Initially, the algorithm of a ... -
Defining Traffic Conflict in Nonlane-Based Traffic Conditions: An Extreme Value Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Reliable crash data are not usually available in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In these regions, surrogate safety measures (SSMs) can be used as effective tools for quantifying road safety. Traffic conflicts ... -
Ped-MP: A Pedestrian-Friendly Max-Pressure Signal Control Policy for City Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Decentralized traffic signal controls, such as max-pressure (MP) control, also known as back-pressure (BP) control, have received increased attention recently. MP signal control has been analytically proven to maximize the ... -
Prediction of Traffic Incident Clearance Duration Using Neural Network for Multimodal Data Distribution
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Traffic incidents adversely affect the safety and mobility of our transportation network. As such, accurate prediction of incident duration is critical in developing strategies and deploying resources to quickly clear ... -
Unsupervised Approach to Investigate Urban Traffic Crashes Based on Crash Unit, Crash Severity, and Manner of Collision
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Both crash frequency analysis (CFA) and real-time crash prediction models (RTCPMs) divide a highway into small segments with a constant length [typically 0.161 km (0.10 mi)] for data aggregation. Many previous ... -
Age-Based Preference Analysis between Autonomous Vehicles and Other Mobility Technologies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)As new mobility technologies become more widely used, they can transform the way that people travel. Among these technologies are autonomous vehicles (AVs) and micromobility such as bike-sharing and scooters. While the ... -
An Attention Reinforcement Learning–Based Strategy for Large-Scale Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL)-based traffic control strategy integrated with attention mechanism for large-scale adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) system. The proposed attention RL integrates ... -
Explainable Stacking-Based Learning Model for Traffic Forecasting
(ASCE, 2024/04/01)This paper implements a two-staged ensemble learning model for traffic forecasting, focusing on the interpretability of predictions. The stacking model leverages the advantages of its diverse component learning models. ...