Download or read book Where the Weather Meets the Road written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather has broad and significant effects on the roadway environment. Snow, rain, fog, ice, freezing rain, and other weather conditions can impair the ability of drivers to operate their vehicles safely, significantly reduce roadway capacity, and dramatically increase travel times. Multiple roadway activities, from roadway maintenance and construction to shipping, transit, and police operations, are directly affected by inclement weather. Some road weather information is available to users currently, however a disconnect remains between current research and operations, and additional research could yield important safety and economic improvements for roadway users. Meteorology, roadway technology, and vehicle systems have evolved to the point where users could be provided with better road weather information through modern information technologies. The combination of these technologies has the potential to significantly increase the efficiency of roadway operations, road capacity, and road safety. Where the Weather Meets the Road provides a roadmap for moving these concepts to reality.

Download or read book Network Reliability in Practice written by David Levinson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, economics, geography, planning and transportation—offer varying perspectives on modeling and analysis of the reliability of transportation networks in order to illustrate both vulnerability to day-to-day and unpredictability variability and risk in travel, and demonstrates strategies for addressing those issues. The scope of the chapters includes all aspects of analysis and design to improve network reliability, specifically user perception of unreliability of public transport, public policy and reliability of travel times, the valuation and economics of reliability, network reliability modeling and estimation, travel behavior and vehicle routing under uncertainty, and risk evaluation and management for transportation networks. The book combines new methodologies and state of the art practice to model and address questions of network unreliability, making it of interest to both academics in transportation and engineering as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

Download or read book Transportation Systems Planning written by Konstadinos G. Goulias and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation engineering and transportation planning are two sides of the same coin aiming at the design of an efficient infrastructure and service to meet the growing needs for accessibility and mobility. Many well-designed transport systems that meet these needs are based on a solid understanding of human behavior. Since transportation systems

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book PRO 37 5th International RILEM Conference on Cracking in Pavements Mitigation Risk Assessment and Prevention written by C. Petit and published by RILEM Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sustainability Eco efficiency and Conservation in Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management written by Massimo Losa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide there is a growing interest in efficient planning and the design, construction and maintenance of transportation facilities and infrastructure assets. The 3rd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure ICTI 2014 (Pisa, April 22-25, 2014) contains contributions on sustainable development and preservation of transportation infrastructure assets, with a focus on eco-efficient and cost-effective measures. Sustainability, Eco-efficiency and Conservation in Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management includes a selection of peer reviewed papers on a wide variety of topics: • Advanced modeling tools (LCA, LCC, BCA, performance prediction,design tools and systems) • Data management (monitoring and evaluation) • Emerging technologies and equipments • Innovative strategies and practices • Environmental sustainability issues • Eco-friendly design and materials • Re-use or recycling of resources • Pavements, tracks, and structures • Case studies Sustainability, Eco-efficiency and Conservation in Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management will be particularly of interest to academics, researchers, and practitioners involved in sustainable development and maintenance of transportation infrastructure assets.

Download or read book Working Together to Address Induced Demand written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes written by J. Richard Kuzmyak and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While transportation is a long-acknowledged factor in shaping cities and determining land development potential, as the result of enhanced accessibility, the reciprocal impact of land use decisions on transportation outcomes has only gradually achieved recognition. It is these reciprocal impacts, of interest in treating land use or site design options as "transportation" strategies, that provide the impetus for this chapter. Presented here is information on the relationships between land use/site design and travel behavior, drawn primarily from research studies that have attempted to measure and explain the effects. This chapter, Chapter 15, will be of interest to transit, transportation, and land use planning practitioners; educators and researchers; and professionals across a broad spectrum of transportation and planning agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and local, state, and federal government agencies

Download or read book Improved Work Zone Design Guidelines and Enhanced Model of Travel Delays in Work Zones written by Helmut T. Zwahlen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The project focuses on two major issues - the improvement of current work zone design practices and an analysis of vehicle interarrival time (IAT) and speed distributions for the development of a digital computer simulation model for queues and travel delays in work zones. Important considerations in the development of work zone design guidelines include guidance, delineation, and the safety of workers and drivers. A nationwide survey of current work zone best practices was conducted. Based on the review of the existing ODOT guidelines, superior practices available in other states, relevant research, and professional judgment of personnel involved in work zone activities, a set of guidelines for work zone design are proposed. It is anticipated that these research findings will result in the better design of work zones which will minimize traffic delays and improve safety. In the second part of the project trailers, each using two Wavetronix microwave radar units in side-fire mode, were developed to nonintrusively measure traffic. The traffic was measured at six work zones sites with different types of lane configurations at different freeways in Ohio. Traffic on the road was also independently measured using video and radar, and the results compared to records from the trailers to verify that the trailers were measuring the traffic with reasonable accuracy. IAT data of successive vehicles in freeflowing traffic ahead of work zones were analyzed and IAT distributions were generated as a function of the traffic volume for each lane and relationships between traffic volumes and cumulative IAT distributions were established allowing a direct conversion from hourly traffic counts to corresponding cumulative IAT distributions. This conversion method produces fairly accurate cumulative IAT distributions for selected hourly traffic volumes. It was also found that the same cumulative IAT distribution can be used to model the free-flowing traffic at other freeway locations in Ohio, which means that the IAT distributions are portable and scalable and a microscopic digital computer simulation model based on queueing theory may be developed to investigate traffic delays in work zones.

Download or read book Highway Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Large Scale Systems written by F. G. Filip and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 2002 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers presented at the 9th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications (LSS 2001), held in Bucharest, Romania, 18-20 July 2001. Its aim was to address the control aspects of those industrial, economic, social and environmental systems whose characteristics are high dimensionality, non-linearity and uncertainty, associated with a multitude of structural forms, with intense and time critical information exchange and efficient co-ordination. The symposium covered all major aspects of large scale, complex systems including methodological aspects, technological solutions and practical applications. methodological aspects and those devoted to practical applications. Several invited sessions were organised, including papers from leading world experts. The papers are ordered in accordance with the technical sessions. Session topics include methodology and application fields, traditional to this Symposium series. Topics covered include the following: modelling and model reduction; decentralized control and estimation; hierarchical control; intelligent and fuzzy control; nonlinear dynamics in complex systems; complex systems theory and analysis; water, gas, power systems; large scale CIMs and production planning and scheduling; communication and information systems; transportation systems; modelling and control of wastewater treatment plants and societal systems modelling, planning and management. technical programme, such as decision support systems and risk and governance in large-scale systems. More recent issues, such as risk management and human decision in large-scale systems, were well received by the symposium participants and provide an extra dimension to volume.

Download or read book A Complete Review of Incident Detection Algorithms Their Deployment written by A. Emily Parkany and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maintenance of Transportation Pavements and Structures written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: Potential for private-sector road maintenance in developing countries : case studies (Parkman, CC, Madelin, KB and Robinson, R); Improving road quality with focused daily road maintenance (Brown, M and Provencher, Y); Service life of durable pavement markings (Migletz, J, Graham, JL, Harwood, DW and Bauer, KM); Cost-benefit highway pavement maintenance (Najafi, FT and Paredes, V); Life-cycle cost comparison of asphalt and concrete pavements on low-volume roads : case study comparisons (Embacher, RA and Snyder, MB); To seal or not to seal? A field experiment to resolve an age-old dilemma (Hawkins, BK, Ioannides, AM and Minkarah, IA); Potential of using stone matrix asphalt for thin overlays (Cooley, LA and Brown ER); Construction and performance of an ultrathin bonded hot-mix asphalt wearing course (Hanson, DI); Maintenance of concrete bridges (Sprinkel, M); Thin polysulfide epoxy bridge deck overlays (Stenko, MS and Chawalwala, AJ); Pilot installation of a bridge scour monitoring site (Weissman, J, Chun, HT and Haas, C); Highway bridge inspection : state -of- the- practice survey (Rolander, DD, Phares, BM, Graybeal, BA and Moore, ME); Reliability and accuracy of routine inspection of highway bridges (Phares, BM, Graybeal, BA, Rolander, DD and Moore, ME); Reliability and accuracy of in-depth inspection of highway bridges (Graybeal, BA, Rolander, DD, Phares, BM and Moore, ME); Field test of new procedure for removing lead-based paint from bridges (Bushman, WH and Jackson, DR).

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