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Unveiling the evolution of urban rail transit network: considering ridership attributes Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Yunpeng Zhao, Zhenjun Zhu, Yong Zhang, Yimian Yang, Yuliang Guo, Wei Zhou
Previous research on urban rail transit (URT) evolution mainly focused on network topology, neglecting ridership attributes. This study extracts ridership and network topology indicators from Chine...
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Route and charging planning for electric vehicles: a multi-objective approach Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Marek Cuchý, Michal Jakob, Jan Mrkos
Electric vehicle (EV) travel planning is a complex task that involves optimizing both the routes and the charging sessions for EVs. Existing algorithms rely on single-objective optimization, which ...
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A hybrid multi-objective solution approach for a reliable truck-drone routing problem integrated with pickup and delivery services Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Sanaz Khalaj Rahimi, Donya Rahmani
Humanitarian logistics aims to reduce the arrival time of relief goods and optimize services in disaster-affected regions. This paper introduces a multi-objective hybrid truck-drone routing problem...
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Managing parking reservations to mitigate congestion in office-oriented garages Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Xinying Zhang, Minghui Xie, Sanghuiyu Yan, Yuanqing Wang, Yanan Gao
To alleviate the congestion caused by long parking lines in office-oriented garages, we explore the parking reservation management strategy and focus on the optimization of arrival patterns. A k-me...
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Analysis of crash severity in rear-end and angle collisions on an urban roundabout in heterogeneous non-lane-based traffic conditions Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Vinayaraj V S, Vedagiri Perumal
This study examines crash risk factors and develops a severity model for rear-end and angle collisions in roundabouts and its vicinity in non-lane-based heterogeneous traffic. The rear-end severity...
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High-speed train rescheduling and arrival-departure tracks utilization planning in infectious epidemic Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Xuelei Meng, Haijun Li, Limin Jia, Ruhu Gao
This paper analyzes the relation of arrival-departure tracks and the platforms of various types of stations, and the minimum dwelling time and adjacent train arrival interval to avoid contact of th...
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Introducing the concept of alternative intersections with three-phase traffic signals Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Zhiliang Luo, Amirarsalan Mehrara Molan, Joseph E. Hummer, Anurag Pande
At intersections where traffic demand is above capacity, reducing the number of signal phases may help operational performance. Alternative intersections may help achieve the reduction; however, re...
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A distributed deep reinforcement learning-based longitudinal control strategy for connected automated vehicles combining attention mechanism Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Chunyu Liu, Zihao Sheng, Pei Li, Sikai Chen, Xia Luo, Bin Ran
With the rapid development of connected automated vehicles (CAVs), the trajectory control of CAVs has become a focus in traffic engineering. This paper proposes a distributed deep reinforcement lea...
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Investigating gap acceptance behavior based on correlated random parameter survival model with heterogeneity in means Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Gen Li, Le Zhao, Lan Wu, Chenming Jiang, Wenyun Tang
This paper aims to investigate gap acceptance behavior during discretionary lane-changing maneuvers considering the heterogeneity among drivers and lane-changing urgency on a freeway segment from a...
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Optimization of electric bus dispatching interval considering stochastic traffic conditions Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Xiaowei Hu, Zhenyang Qiu, Wei Gao
Due to their efficient and environmentally friendly features, electric buses have become the key to solving urban transportation and environmental problems. However, existing studies primarily conc...
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Who does new trips and why?: An analysis toward the modeling of induced demand Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Vasiliki Kalliga, Santhanakrishnan Narayanan, Constantinos Antoniou
Improvements in infrastructure capacity and travel conditions including the introduction of a new transport mode can induce changes in traffic. Although this can occur through a variety of behavior...
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Intelligent driving model considering vehicular dynamics and heterogeneous road environments Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jiahao Zhang, Hongsheng Qi
Understanding vehicles’ movement in complex environments becomes cruical with the fast development of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). Current microscopic traffic flow models lack consideration...
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Multi-sequence spatio-temporal feature fusion network for peak-hour passenger flow prediction in urban rail transit Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Lining Liu, Yugang Liu, Xiaofei Ye
This research addresses the challenge of predicting URT station passenger flow during peak hour. The Multi-Sequence Spatio-Temporal Feature Fusion Network Model (MSSTFFN) based on trend decompositi...
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A stochastic programming model for designing bus bridging services under metro disruptions Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Lu Zhen, Xueqin Du, Haolin Li, Zanyang Wu
With the growing reliance on urban metro networks, any accidental disruption can lead to rapid degradation and significant economic losses. Bus bridging services are common and efficient ways to mi...
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Evaluating the effectiveness of engineering countermeasures at yellow dilemma zone: a driving simulator-based study Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Bharat Kumar Pathivada, Vedagiri Perumal
The indecisiveness of drivers at the yellow onset creates a dilemma zone (DZ) upstream of the signalized crossings. The yellow light dilemma negatively influences intersection safety, often leading...
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Exploring hierarchy shift of travelers’ public transport dependence using an improved Apriori algorithm Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Song Hu, Lin Wang, Jiancheng Weng, Wei Zhou, Yue Qian, Haipeng Wang
Special external environments will lead to significant changes in the use behavior and dependence degree of different PT travellers, but it is difficult to analyze the mechanism of the hierarchy sh...
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Cooperative vehicle-infrastructure warning (CVIW) applications: people’s willingness to pay and perceived importance Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Guanqun Wang, Zhigang Xu, Yizhe Cao, Siming Zhai, Peng Liu
Cooperative vehicle-infrastructure warning (CVIW) applications have great potential to relieve traffic congestion and improve traffic safety and mobility. To understand their public acceptance, we ...
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Joint optimization of fixed route bus networks and complementary paratransit service areas Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Daniel Rodriguez-Roman, José López-Martínez, Alberto M. Figueroa-Medina
An optimization-based approach is proposed for the joint design of fixed-route bus networks and the service areas of complementary paratransit services. Complementary paratransit systems provide tr...
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Exploring the travel behavioral differences for the elderly mobility on public transit Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Shin-Hyung Cho, Shin Hyoung Park, Sangho Choo
Developing an integrated transportation system has required strategies to improve mobility in public transportation networks. This study aims to construct a route choice model incorporating heterog...
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Qualitatively and quantitatively explore injury severity of light motor vehicle drivers involved in heavy goods vehicle crashes Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Fulu Wei, Peixiang Xu, Yongqing Guo, Zhenyu Wang
Crashes involving heavy goods trucks (HGVs) are of significant concern as it poses a higher risk of fatality to light motor vehicles (LMVs). The study constructs three Deep Forest models with diffe...
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Enhanced forecasting of online car-hailing demand using an improved empirical mode decomposition with long short-term memory neural network Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jiaming Liu, Xiaoya Tang, Haibin Liu
The study on forecasting demand for online car-hailing holds substantial implications for both online car-hailing platforms and government agencies responsible for traffic management. This research...
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Effectiveness of unconventional anti-texting messages displayed on dynamic message signs Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Irtiza Rafid Khan, Kirti Mahajan, Vishal C. Kummetha, Steven D. Schrock, Alexandra Kondyli
Dynamic message signs (DMS) are widely adopted to display traffic and safety information. This study investigated the effectiveness of behavioral safety messages, including 10 unconventional anti-t...
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Are men from Mars, women from Venus? Investigating the determinants behind the intention to use fully automated taxis Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Yonghan Zhu, Marijn Janssen, Chengyan Pu
Acceptance by customers is key to the success of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs). However, only a small group of early technology-savvy customers currently use such vehicles, while the general po...
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A review of bike volume prediction studies Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Md Mintu Miah, Kate Kyung Hyun, Stephen P Mattingly
No previous research provided a comprehensive review of the bicycle volume estimation techniques assessing the current research gaps in data and modeling makes it challenging to understand the most...
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Integrated Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) with suburban rail network design problem for maximizing profits Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Xinmei Chen, Chen Dong, Siyu Tao, Qiyuan Peng, Jie Liu
Driven by the transit-oriented development (TOD) policy for rail stations, this study focuses on the network design of rapid suburban railways and the TOD zone design of corresponding suburban rail...
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Exploring the design of reward functions in deep reinforcement learning-based vehicle velocity control algorithms Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Yixu He, Yang Liu, Lan Yang, Xiaobo Qu
The application of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques in intelligent transportation systems garners significant attention. In this field, reward function design is a crucial factor for DR...
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Research on shared parking allocation considering the heterogeneity of parking slot providers’ temporary parking demand Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Qiaoru Li, Juanjuan Cheng, Liang Chen
Studies on the allocation of parking demand during the sharing period primarily focus on public parking users, ignoring parking slot providers’ temporary parking demand with heterogeneity. Therefor...
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A many-to-many pick-up and delivery problem under stochastic battery depletion of electric vehicles Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Merve İbiş Bozyel, Mehmet Soysal, Mustafa Çimen
The study extends the traditional pick-up and delivery problems (PDPs) to address the specific challenges of urban logistics and electric vehicle (EV) adoption. These challenges include the limited...
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Exploring differences in injury severity between occupant groups involved in fatal rear-end crashes: a correlated random parameter logit model with mean heterogeneity Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Renteng Yuan, Xin Gu, Zhipeng Peng, Qiaojun Xiang
Rear-end crashes are one of the most common crash types. Passenger cars involved in rear-end crashes frequently produce severe outcomes. However, no study investigated the differences in the injury...
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GNN-based passenger request prediction Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani
Passenger request prediction is essential for operations planning, control, and management in ride-hailing platforms. While the demand prediction problem has been studied extensively, the Origin-De...
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Festival timetable synchronization of metro trains and high-speed railway trains for late-night operations: an integrated bi-directional transfer optimization model Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Xuan Li, Yan Liu, Quan Zhang
This paper focuses on synchronizing festival timetables between high-speed railway (HSR) and metro for late-night operations. A multi-objective model is proposed to optimize metro timetables of the...
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Motorized two-wheeler riders’ rear brake application in sudden hazardous event of animal crossing Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Monik Gupta, Nagendra R. Velaga
This study aims to quantify the riders’ performance in the sudden event of animal crossing using explanatory variables such as psychological riding conditions and socio demographic parameters. The ...
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Studying the predictability of crash risk caused by manual takeover of autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic flow Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Qingchao Liu, Ruohan Yu, Yingfeng Cai, Long Chen
This study explores how to reduce the cost of prediction as much as possible while ensuring the prediction accuracy of a real-time crash risk model. The extreme gradient enhancement (XGBoost) algor...
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Online flash delivery from multiple depots Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Maximilian Kronmüller, Andres Fielbaum, Javier Alonso-Mora
OLD abstract:We study routing for on-demand last-mile logistics with two crucial novel features: i) Multiple depots, optimizing where to pick-up every order, ii) Allowing vehicles to perform depot ...
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A day-to-day evacuation model to maximise transport resilience under dynamic hazards Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Elnaz Bakhshian, Rui Teixeira, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor
A transport network may face damage due to a disaster. Some roads may be wholly or partially closed, and the system cannot satisfy the whole demand. Critical considerations include transferring eva...
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The Integrated optimization of intermittent lane intersection design and dynamic signal control: efficiency, safety, and fuel consumption Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Shuai Zheng, Yugang Liu, Yiliang Liang, Hongtai Yang
Existing unconventional intersection designs can enhance the capacity of intersections to deal with repaid pressure on urban commuting, whereas they force vehicles to multi-stop and reorganize, res...
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Parcel locker location problem with selectable volume sizes and heterogeneous customers in the last mile delivery Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Lin Zhou, Chao Li, Chengcheng Hu, Jianhui Du
This study introduces a novel parcel locker location problem in the last mile delivery where each parcel locker is equipped with a set of selectable volume sizes and provides services for two types...
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The paired pickup and delivery problem with profit in a two-echelon delivery system with multiple trucks and drones Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Ebrahim Teimoury, Reza Rashid
Recently researchers proposed truck and drone coordination to increase delivery efficiency and suggested various truck-drone routing problems. In this paper, we also focused on truck and drone coor...
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Optimizing electric bus charging infrastructure deployment under two charging modes considering seasonal differences Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Jing Liu, Yulong Pei, Chuntong Dong, Qingling He, Ziqi Wang
The innovations of battery and charging technologies facilitate worldwide bus electrification, which can conserve energy and reduce emissions. The emergence of wireless power transfer technology of...
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A fast-response mathematical programming approach for delivering disaster relief goods: an earthquake case study Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jaber Qezelbash-Chamak, Saeid Badamchizadeh, Abbas Seifi
This paper tackles a complex logistics challenge of disaster management, encompassing warehouse location, pre-disaster inventory planning, routing, and post-disaster relief supply delivery. We esta...
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Metro stop-skipping rescheduling optimization considering passenger waiting time fairness Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Yanyan Wang, Changjiang Zheng, Jinxing Shen, Zhichao Chen, Junze Ma, Yang Shen
In urban metro systems, unexpected events often occur to cause discordance in the planned timetable and delay in passenger travel. Therefore, this study focuses on the timetable rescheduling proble...
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Analysis of the factors affecting the time spent on leisure activities by using an ordered logit model Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Ali Jamal Mahdi, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss
The objective of the current study is to analyze the time spent on leisure activities in Budapest, considering five influencing factors. Data were collected from Google Popular Time (GPT) via locat...
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Multi-objective optimization for through train service integrating train operation plan and type selection Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Yuchao Zhan, Mao Ye, Renjie Zhang, Shanglu He, Shuo Ni
Providing effective Through Train Services (TTSs) faces challenges due to complex infrastructure conditions, train performances and passenger demands. To enhance TTSs between two different classes ...
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Psychological antecedents of electric vehicle adoption in the West Bank Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Manar Ramadan, Mohammed Othman
The global electric vehicle (EV) market overgrew in the previous decade. This paper investigates the factors affecting EV purchase intention in the West Bank, Palestine. This study adopts the explo...
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Investigating the spatial heterogeneity of factors influencing speeding-related crash severities using correlated random parameter order models with heterogeneity-in-means Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Renteng Yuan, Shengxuan Ding, Zhiheng Fang, Xin Gu, Qiaojun Xiang
Speeding has been acknowledged as a critical determinant in increasing the risk of crashes and their resulting injury severities. This paper employs Global Moran’s I coefficient and local Getis – O...
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Pre-peak fare discount policy for managing morning peak demand of interregional bus travel: a case study in Seoul metropolitan area Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Hoyoung Lee, Cheol-Won Choi, Shin-Hyung Cho, Ho-Chul Park
Pre-peak fare discount policies have become increasingly common in urban transit services and show potential to spread morning peak-hour demand. This study analyzes the departure time choice behavi...
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Can taxi data inform bus route improvement? A case study in Shanghai Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Yuxiong Ji, Minhang Zhou, Yu Shen, Xiaohu Zhang, Yuchuan Du
Taxis not only substitute for but also complement bus transit. With the complementary relationship, taxi trips reveal the origin-destination pairs where the level of bus service is low. This study ...
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Spatio-temporal graph attention networks for traffic prediction Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Chuang Ma, Li Yan, Guangxia Xu
The constraints of road network topology and dynamically changing traffic states over time make the task of traffic flow prediction extremely challenging. Most existing methods use CNNs or GCNs to ...
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Shared travel demand forecasting and multi-phase vehicle relocation optimization for electric carsharing systems Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Ning Wang, Hangqi Tian, Gang Wu, Jian Tang, Yuan Li
Electric shared mobility is flourishing in urban transportation. However, the problem of uneven vehicle distribution and untimely vehicle charging hampers user trip experience and system operation ...
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Real-time Vulnerability Analysis of Urban Expressway Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Yangbeibei Ji, Jinjie Zhou, Hanwan Jiang, Xinru Xing, Shuangyi Gu
This study proposes a new method for evaluating the road network vulnerability per unit time: the real-time vulnerability index (RVI). The practical application of the proposed measure in real traf...
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Experimental study on the departure time choice behavior during the morning rush hours under different road capacity conditions Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Xiaoyan Sun, Chengjie Gong, Jianxin Tan
This paper presents an experimental study on the departure time choice behavior during the morning rush hours under different road capacity conditions. Experimental data are analyzed from the aspec...
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A fast simulated annealing heuristic for the multi-depot two-echelon vehicle routing problem with delivery options Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Vincent F. Yu, Shih-Wei Lin, Lin Zhou, Roberto Baldacci
We studied a variant of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) arising in last-mile distribution, called the multi-depot two-echelon vehicle routing problem with delivery options (MDTEVRP-DO). The MDTEV...
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What causes severe truck crashes on the flat and mountainous expressways? A comparative study in China Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Yonggang Wang, Junxian Chen, Enhao Guan
ABSTRACT The severity of collisions involving heavy trucks exhibits a difference between the flat and mountainous expressways. Based on 1,175 records of truck crashes from 2015 to 2020 on two typical expressways in China, a heteroskedastic ordered probit model was applied to determine the significant factors among driver-vehicle-roadway-environment interactions and their marginal effects on the collision
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Simulation and optimization of dynamic-hybrid parking reservation strategies for one-way vehicle-sharing systems Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Yangsheng Jiang, Yue Yang, Hao Li, Lu Hu
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore the regulation of one-way station-based vehicle-sharing system (OSVS) through dynamic-hybrid parking reservation policies. We first propose a dynamic-hybrid parking reservation policy. This policy only requires trips with expected travel distances shorter than a specific threshold to make a parking reservation. The distance threshold varies with time. We develop a
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Evaluation of a pedestrian call extension and cancelation system at a signalized midblock crossing Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 McKenna Milacek, Hisham Jashami, Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, David S. Hurwitz
ABSTRACT Unnecessary vehicular delay occurs at actuated signalized intersections during ‘ghost’ pedestrian intervals when a pedestrian activates the pushbutton then jaywalks. Safety issues arise when pedestrians remain in the crosswalk at the end of the Flashing Don’t Walk phase, and vehicles receive a circular green. A Pedestrian Call Extension and Cancelation System was evaluated at a signalized
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Determination of the optimal connected and automated vehicles platoon size based on the merging success rate Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Huixin Gao, Xilong Ren, Zhijian You, Xia Li, Yuewen Xiao, Mengting Guo, Xinwei Ma
ABSTRACT The platoon size is a critical parameter in connected and automated vehicle (CAV) platoon configuration. However, the optimal platoon size configuration for the mixed human-driven vehicles (HVs) and CAVs traffic has not been well-studied, especially in merging areas. This paper aims to determine the optimal platoon size in the merge area through numerical analysis. Specifically, the existing
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Vehicle detection in diverse traffic using an ensemble convolutional neural backbone via feature concatenation Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Prashant Deshmukh, Sudhan Majhi, Upendra Kumar Sahoo, Santos Kumar Das
ABSTRACT Nowadays, deploying an intelligent vehicle detection system (IVDS) in diverse traffic is a work priority. It provides real-time traffic information with vehicle counts and types of vehicles. IVDS deployment in diverse traffic is challenging because different vehicle classes occlude each other on the road. In recent years, convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning (DL) methods
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Impact assessment of professional drivers’ speed compliance and speed adaptation with posted speed limits in different driving environments and driving conditions Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Nishant Mukund Pawar, Nagendra R. Velaga, Sabyasachee Mishra
ABSTRACT This study analyzed the impact of driving environments (real-world and simulated world) and driving conditions (no time pressure and time pressure) on speed compliance and speed adaptation. Professional car drivers were recruited, and the data was collected in real-world and simulated world under no time pressure and time pressure driving conditions. The comparison results using Wilcoxon-signed
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Performance-based transit subsidy allocation scheme to fulfill multiple policy criteria Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Ming-Miin Yu, Yi-Shih Chung
ABSTRACT Performance-based subsidy allocation schemes are typically intended to satisfy a single policy goal (e.g. social welfare maximization) and often do not include objective approaches to quantifying bus service efficiency. This paper proposes a framework for network data envelopment analysis and introduces an innovative transit subsidy allocation scheme with a fixed budget that fulfills multiple
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Crossing conflict models for urban un-signalized T-intersections in India Transp. Lett. (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Jaydip Goyani, Ninad Gore, Shriniwas Arkatkar
ABSTRACT Traffic conflict is frequently utilized as a stand-in for crashes for analyzing traffic safety from a broader perspective for varying roadways and traffic conditions. In Indian heterogeneous traffic conditions, vehicles with various static and dynamic properties interact simultaneously in longitudinal and lateral directions, forming traffic conflicts. To this end, the present study develops