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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Number of stops"”.
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Multi-stop trucking : a study on cost and carrier acceptance
… been gaining importance in recent years as part of a shift away from Less-than-truckload freight. In our research, we sought to understand how the price and carrier behavior vary as the number of stops increases. Rational economic theory says that these shipments will be more expensive, and …
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Volume-based Probabilistic Approaches to Determining When to Turn on and off Signal Coordination Plans
… an engineering tool used to enhance the quality of traffic flow, increase traffic throughput, reduce travel time and delay, and reduce number of stops by providing good progression along major arterials. While vehicles on major arterials benefit from signal coordination, side-street vehicles may …
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Delay, Stop and Queue Estimation for Uniform and Random Traffic Arrivals at Fixed-Time Signalized Intersections
With the introduction of different forms of adaptive and actuated signal control, there is a need for effective evaluation tools that can capture the intricacies of real-life applications. While the current state-of-the-art analytical procedures provide simple approaches for estimating delay, queue …
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A Mathematical Study of Purchasing Airline Tickets
… apply ideas from foraging theory to the purchase of airline tickets from competing websites in an online shopping environment. We explore how consumers might distribute themselves among websites and different tickets dependent on parameters such as price of ticket, number of stops, input rate of …
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MASTraf: a decentralized multi-agent system for network-wide traffic signal control with dynamic coordination
… traffic demands, oversaturation, the occurrence of incidents, and adverse weather conditions, among others, significantly impact the traffic network operation in ways that current control systems cannot always cope with. On the other hand, strategies for traffic control based on developments from …
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Broken Windows and Shattered Trust: Analyzing the Geospatial Disparities in Law Enforcement Interactions
… department and the community. The objective of this policy is to stop, question, and potentially frisk individuals as a proactive strategy to prevent crimes. Despite the noble intentions of reducing crime and recovering dangerous weapons, this policy has alienated minorities, in particular …
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Study and Evaluation of IntelliDrive Technology for Traffic Responsive Control Strategies
… initiative developed by United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) that aims to enable safe, interoperable networked wireless communications among vehicles, the infrastructure, and passengers' personal communications devices. IntelliDrive technology has the ability to provide data that …
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Study and Evaluation of Traffic Responsive Control on a Large Arterial Network
Traffic responsive mode of operation with its two mechanisms, threshold-based and pattern matching, is considered one of the effective and efficient signal control modes. This operation mode is underutilized due to its cumbersome configuration procedure. The research presented in this thesis aims …
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Exploring the Considerations of School Zone Speed Control in Traffic Signal Timing
… speed reduction and potentially additional stops at intersections. Among the various measures implemented for school zone speed control, the potential of utilizing traffic signal timing strategies to influence driver behavior and maintain reduced speeds in school zones remains largely …
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To What Extent Do Ride-Hailing Services Replace Public Transit? A Novel Geospatial, Real-Time Approach Using Ride-Hailing Trips in Chicago
… ridehailing trips in June 2019; the sheer size of this sample is incomparable to the samples studied in existing literature. An existing Multinomial Nested Logit Model was used to determine the probability of a ridehailer selecting a transit alternative to serve the specific origin-destination …
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Landscape Level Evaluation of Northern Bobwhite Habitats in Eastern Virginia Using Landsat TM Imagery
… almost universal decline in bobwhite population numbers despite a long history of management. The Virginia Bobwhite Quail Management Plan was implemented in 1996 to slow and stop the current population declines in Virginia. Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) personnel …
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Mesoscopic Fuel Consumption and Emission Modeling
… assessing the environmental impacts of transportation activities is essential for air-quality improvement programs. Current state-of-the-art models estimate vehicle emissions based on typical urban driving cycles. Most of these models offer simplified mathematical expressions to …
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Dynamic Travel Demand Management Strategies: Dynamic Congestion Pricing and Highway Space Inventory Control System
The number of trips on highways and urban networks has significantly increased in the recent decades in many cities across the world. At the same time, the road network capacities have not kept up with this increase in travel demand. Urban road networks in many countries are severely congested, …
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The integration of informal minibus-taxi transport services into formal public transport planning and operations - A data driven approach
… yet plays a big role in the economies of developing countries transporting the workforce to and from their places of employment and offering employment to thousands in the operations of these services, as well as the numerous rank-side services and amenities offered to patrons. In …
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A New Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Bus Rapid Transit Strategies
… has become more desirable as capacity of existing roadways failed to keep up with rapidly increasing traffic demand. Buses are one of the most common modes of public transportation with low impact on network capacity, especially in small and congested urban areas. However, the use of …