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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Transportation engineering"”.
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Impact assessment using geographic information system (Gis): Transportation engineering applications
… geographic information systems (GIS) in several transportation engineering applications. Geographic information systems are shown to exhibit significant potential in impact assessment and complex spatial data management. Advances in computing technology have lead to wide spread use of GIS in many …
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Game-Aided Education for Transportation Engineering: Design, Development, and Assessment
Transportation engineering is a wide area that covers different topics including traffic planning, highway design, pavement design, traffic safety, and traffic control. Certain concepts in those topics are challenging and are hard to understand based on textbooks and lectures. In this work, we …
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Improving Dilemma Zone Protection Control Issues at Signalized Intersection Using a Web-Game
… that can be used as a supplementary tool for the Transportation Engineering course. The game format is carefully designed to supplement the understanding of the class learning material through a fun environment. It was designed to be widely accessible through the internet and have an attractive …
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Modeling Transportation Problems Using Concepts of Swarm Intelligence and Soft Computing
… could be applied to countless problems in transportation engineering. Recently, researchers started studying the behavior of social insects (ants) in an attempt to use the swarm intelligence concept to develop artificial systems with the ability to search a problem's solution space in a way …
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Enabling safe, smart, and sustainable Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems with Artificial Intelligence
The transportation engineering landscape is undergoing a pivotal transformation. Although transportation engineering research roots lie in the traditional engineering principles underpinning road, bridge, and infrastructure design, the past decade has seen a merger of computational and data-driven …
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The place of complete streets: aligning urban street design practices with pedestrian and cycling priorities
… choices to use streets. Canadian municipal transportation practices are largely based on conventional approaches, where the movement of motor vehicles is a priority. The purpose of this practicum is to identify ways that selected precedents from Canadian and European municipal practices, may …
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Vehicle Dynamics Model for Predicting Maximum and Typical Acceleration Rates for Passenger Vehicles
… is an important consideration in a variety of transportation engineering applications. The acceleration profiles of vehicles are important in the geometric design of roadways and are used to model vehicle behavior in simulation software packages. The acceleration profile of the vehicle is also …
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Development of a GIS-based routing model
… of fields related to study of environment, transportation engineering, planning and geographical analysis. This thesis develops a prototype GIS-based routing system which includes static routing functions, dynamic routing functions, and emergency response analysis functions. The system …
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Critical Node Analysis for Water Distribution System Using Flow Distribution
… typically used to predict traffic flows in transportation engineering, to a distribution system. Flow distribution predicts the amount of demand and population that would be affected if any node in the system were disabled by solving for the distribution of each node’s outflow. Flow …
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Data Science for Mining Patterns in Spatial Events
… can facilitate applications such as mechanical engineering, transportation engineering, and public safety. This thesis investigates novel and societally important patterns from various types of large scale spatial events such as spatial point events, spatio-temporal point events, and …
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A two-point vehicle classification system
… of vehicles is an important part of transportation engineering. In the past twenty years many automated systems have been developed to accomplish that labor-intensive task. Unfortunately most of those systems are characterized by inaccurate detection systems and/or classification …
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Leveraging infrastructure : sustainable bus rapid transit route planning in Beirut, Lebanon
… applies the concepts of urban design, public transportation planning, economic development, and sustainability, to the routing and site plan of a two-kilometer bus rapid transit (BRT) line segment into downtown Beirut, Lebanon; linking a 20- kilometer BRT corridor to the region's core. …
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Safety, Operational, and Energy Impacts of In-Vehicle Adaptive Stop Displays Using Connected Vehicle Technology
… it is important to assess it from both a transportation engineering and human factors standpoint to assess the value of the system. The objective of this study was to assess several key benefits of an adaptive in-vehicle stop display as well as to determine if there are any negative safety …
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Mode Choice Modeling Using Artificial Neural Networks
… excellent results in many diverse fields of engineering. Techniques such as neural networks and fuzzy systems have found their way into transportation engineering. In recent years, neural networks are being used instead of regression techniques for travel demand forecasting purposes. The …
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Cell phone location data for travel behavior analysis
… data presents exciting new opportunities to plan transportation infrastructure and services that meet the mobility needs and challenges associated with increasing travel demand. But to realize these benefits, methods must be developed to utilize and integrate this data into existing urban and …
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Determination of the end of functional service life for concrete bridge components
The transportation engineering community of the United States faces a tremendous problem: the gradual deterioration of the nation's bridges. A major component of the overall bridge deterioration problem is the corrosion-induced deterioration of reinforced concrete bridge components that are exposed …
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Ramp control strategies and geometric design implications of high-speed automated transportation systems
In recent years, the field of transportation engineering has witnessed the emergence of technological innovations linking several different application areas like human factors, computer science, communications and operations research. This research deals with automatic freeway traffic operations …
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Development of a pavement life cycle assessment tool utilizing regional data and introducing an asphalt binder model
… an important and emerging topic in the field of transportation engineering. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a quantitative method that can be used to measure the environmental impacts of pavements. A LCA framework for pavements is developed to evaluate the environmental burdens of five phases in …
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Driving Simulator Validation And Rear-end Crash Risk Analysis At A Signalised Intersection
… advanced driving simulators has increased in the transportation engineering field especially in evaluating safety countermeasures. The driving simulator at UCF is a high fidelity simulator with six degrees of freedom. This research aims at validating the simulator in terms of speed and safety with …
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Accounting for Risk and Level of Service in the Design of Passing Sight Distances
Current design methods in transportation engineering do not simultaneously address the levels of risk and service associated with the design and use of various highway geometric elements. Passing sight distance (PSD) is an example of a geometric element designed with no risk measures. PSD is …
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