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E3: EVALUATING EQUITY IN EVACUATION: A PRACTICAL TOOL AND A CASE STUDY
(2020-02)Natural or man-made hazards that require evacuation put already vulnerable populations in a more precarious situation. When plans and decisions about evacuation are made, access to a private car is typically assumed, and ... -
Investigating the Impact of Distracted Driving among Different Socio-Demographic Groups
(2019-12)Previous studies examined the detrimental impact of distracted driving on safety; however, the effect of different types of distraction accompanied by different road classes has not been investigated. This study used a ... -
Developing an Eco-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control System for Electric Vehicles
(2020-03)This study develops an Eco-Corporative Adaptive Cruise Control system (Eco-CACC) for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the vicinity of signalized intersections and investigates the network-level benefits of this system. ... -
Innovative Methods for Delivering Fresh Foods to Underserved Populations
(2019-12)Limited access to fresh food sources--ones within reasonable distances with reliable, affordable transportation--has become a public health concern. The negative associations between a lack of fresh food consumption and ... -
Optimization of Emergency Traffic Patrols (ETP) Operations
(2019-04)Effective incident management relies on many tools to lessen the overall impact of crashes, road debris, and disabled vehicles. Many urban areas have adopted freeway service patrol (FSP) programs that patrol the freeway ... -
Optimized Development Of Urban Transportation Networks
(2019-05-30)This report presents improved methods for planning and scheduling interrelated improvements in transportation networks. Due to the complexity of the relevant evaluation functions, which cannot be optimized with classical ... -
Electric Vehicle Ownership Factors, Preferred Safety Technologies and Commuting Behavior in the United States
(2017-02)Electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions, potentially reduce the ground-level ozone experienced during summers over the Mid-Atlantic’s I-95 Corridor, and possibly reduce ... -
Developing and Testing an ECO-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control System for Buses
(2020-03-31)Studies over the past decade have shown that eco-driving systems which provide speed advisories to drivers/vehicles using data received via vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications can help improve ... -
Groundwater Level Change Management on Control of Land Subsidence Supported by Borehole Extensometer Compaction Measurements in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texas
(MDPI, 2019-05-15)As much as 3.05 m of land subsidence was observed in 1979 in the Houston-Galveston region as a result primarily of inelastic compaction of aquitards in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers between 1937 and 1979. The ... -
Evaluating Equity Issues for Managed Lanes: Methods for Analysis and Empirical Results
(2019-03)Transportation planning decisions can have significant and diverse equity impacts (Litman, 2002). In particular, congestion and road pricing have raised equity concerns. Notably, the toll imposed on Managed Lanes on US ... -
Dynamic (Time Dependent) Green Vehicle Routing Problem
(2019-03-15)This research summarizes recent studies on two versions of the Vehicle Routing Problem, i.e., the time-dependent vehicle routing problem (TD-VRP) and the green vehicle routing problem (G-VRP), for which a time-dependent ... -
Sustainable Design of Concrete Bus Pads to Improve Mobility in Baltimore City
(2019-03-02)Public transit, particularly buses in Baltimore City, plays a vital role in sustainable transportation in the United States as well as providing mobility to those without cars. Bus pads are usually constructed in the street, ... -
Optimal Automated Demand Responsive Feeder Transit Operation and Its Impact
(2018-09)Although demand responsive feeder bus operation is possible with human-driven vehicles, it has not been very popular and mostly available as a special service because of the high operating costs due to the intensive labor ...