Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems: Recent submissions
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Connected Vehicle Data for Freeway Congestion Analysis: Necessity versus Luxury for Transportation Engineers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study evaluates the utility of disaggregated connected vehicle probe (DCVP) data in augmenting existing incident detection workflows in freeway congestion analysis by comparing it with Bluetooth and aggregated ... -
Integrated Control Strategy of CAV-Dedicated Lane Balancing Efficiency and Safety in Expressway Merging Areas
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractTo alleviate traffic congestion caused by on-ramp vehicles merging into the mainline in expressway merging areas under connected and automated vehicle (CAV) dedicated lane settings, an integrated entry speed ... -
Freeway Tunnel Driving Risk Assessment: Combining Feature Dimensionality Reduction and Driving Style Classification
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractDriving risk assessment in tunnels is not only fundamental for evaluating traffic safety but also a critical prerequisite for analyzing and understanding the formation mechanisms of vehicle operational risks. Based ... -
Optimization of Signalized Intersections in Mixed Traffic: A Coordinated Platoon–Signal Control Method Considering the Backward-Looking Effect
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractMixed traffic flows involving connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) present new opportunities and challenges for signalized intersections. Although intelligent control strategies ... -
Assessing Physiological Loads during Passenger Entry and Exit at the Railway Station: An Experimental Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study focuses on the often-neglected aspect of physiological load on passengers at high-speed railway stations, characterized by their large footprints and complex layouts, which contribute to physical fatigue ... -
Fully Automated and Scalable Road Segment Classification Using Connected Vehicle Data and Deep Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThe efficient and scalable road infrastructure mapping is essential for transportation planning, traffic safety, and the implementation of advanced vehicle technologies such as advanced driver-assistance systems ... -
Characteristics of Mixed Traffic Flow in Highway Tunnels as Affected by Changes in Illumination
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractIn a mixed traffic flow environment, the tunnel entrance and exit sections are prone to changes in traffic flow characteristics due to differences in illumination and the complexity of vehicle-following behavior. ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Midblock Pedestrian Signals on Vehicle Delays
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe Florida Department of Transportation has recently introduced midblock pedestrian signals (MPSs) to improve pedestrian safety and traffic efficiency at midblock crossings. This study evaluates the impact of MPSs ... -
Identifying Spatiotemporal Patterns of Transfers between Subways and Buses through Two-Step Clustering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractIdentifying spatiotemporal patterns of transfers between subways and buses is crucial for promoting the integrated development of urban public transportation systems. However, existing studies focused on the ... -
Control Parameter Design for Adaptive Traffic Control System under Varying Traffic Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study establishes control parameter settings to enhance the performance of the adaptive traffic control system (ATCS) under varying traffic conditions. While ATCSs have been widely deployed in urban networks, ... -
Resilience Assessment of the Railway Container Transport Service Network: A Two-Stage Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractTo explore the ability of the railway container transport service network to cope with disturbance events, this study focuses on the network resilience. A network performance metric, termed network economic efficiency, ... -
MFMA–Informer: A Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction Model Incorporating Spatiotemporal Features
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractIn intelligent transport systems (ITS), accurate and real-time traffic flow prediction is essential to reduce congestion and manage transport. Numerous existing studies have used hybrid models to extract various ... -
Supply Constraints Analysis for Bus Operations Based on Multisource Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractMany cities in China are facing the problem of insufficient supply resources for bus systems, limiting the ability to implement optimization strategies for bus operations under complex operating environments. This ... -
Coordinated Scheduling of Mixed Bus Fleets and Drivers on a Single Route Considering Driving Habit Differences
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractAs cities strive for cleaner and more efficient transit systems, electric buses (EBs) have emerged as a key component of public transportation decarbonization strategies. However, high battery costs and charging ... -
Developing a Shockwave-Based Queue Estimation Model to Quantify the Disruption Created by Emergency Vehicle Preemption on Arterial Cross Streets
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractEmergency vehicle preemption (EVP) is used in transportation networks to facilitate the movement of emergency vehicles (EVs). Despite reducing EV travel times and saving lives, EVP can highly disrupt general traffic. ... -
Evaluating Semantic Segmentation–Based Scene Descriptions for Multilane Rural Highway Point Clouds against Ground Truth
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study investigates the use of two transformer-based models for generating semantic scene descriptions from semantically labeled point clouds of multilane rural highway segments, focusing on automating the ... -
V2X-Based Cooperative On-Ramp Merging Control Strategy with In-Lane and Cross-Lane Platoons
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractHighway on-ramp merging zones constitute critical bottlenecks for traffic flow optimization. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and connected automated vehicle (CAV) provide new solutions improving merging ... -
A Comprehensive Assessment of Energy Efficiency Strategies in Electric Rail Vehicles for Sustainable Transportation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study presents a technical approach to evaluating and optimizing traction energy consumption in urban electric rail systems. A custom train motion simulator (TMS) was developed in MATLAB to analyze and compare ... -
Hypergraph-Based High-Speed Rail Hypernetwork Analysis and Node Importance Evaluation Using Operational Data: A Case Study of China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThe high-speed railway (HSR) network is pivotal to transportation infrastructure, yet its resilience and node importance under complex operational dynamics remain to be explored. This study proposes a hypergraph-based ... -
Impact of Dynamic Ramp Closures on Urban Expressway Traffic: A Field Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractRamp controls, such as ramp metering and closure, have been known as a promising strategy for alleviating traffic congestion in urban expressway networks. While ramp metering is a widely adopted practice globally, ...