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Crowdsourcing The Collection Of Transportation Behavior Data, Christopher Bone, Seth Kenbeek, Ken Kato, Jacob Bartruff 2015 University of Oregon

Crowdsourcing The Collection Of Transportation Behavior Data, Christopher Bone, Seth Kenbeek, Ken Kato, Jacob Bartruff

TREC Final Reports

Understanding the travel behaviors of individuals who use public transit is essential for enhancing the performance, sustainability and efficiency of public transportation. Contemporary methods for collecting data on transportation behavior are focused on manual or automated procedures for counting the number of individual passengers entering or exiting transit vehicles. While such methods provide useful data for understanding transit demand throughout a network, they ignore the important details of how passengers travel to and within a network as well as their personal experiences during their commute, all of which can enrich the ability of transit agencies to provide sustainable transportation. To …


Investigating The Correlation Between Freeway Service Levels And Freeway Service Patrol Assists, Nora Chin 2015 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Investigating The Correlation Between Freeway Service Levels And Freeway Service Patrol Assists, Nora Chin

Master's Theses

The Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s (MTC) Freeway Service Patrol’s highway motorist response service is reporting a reduction in their service levels. We analyze the relationship between the reduction in the Bay Area Freeway Service Patrol’s (FSP) motorist assists and changes in vehicle miles traveled (VMT), California Highway Patrol (CHP) reported incidents, and cover research on the impact of new and old vehicle fleet turnover. VMT and CHP incidents have differential effects on FSP assists. Although incidents occurring on freeways with high traffic flows tend to cause more congestion, the trend in local VMT along Bay Area freeway corridors does …


Automated Transit Networks (Atn): A Review Of The State Of The Industry And Prospects For The Future, Mti Report 12-31, Burford Furman, Sam Ellis, Lawrence Fabian, Peter Muller 2015 San Jose State University

Automated Transit Networks (Atn): A Review Of The State Of The Industry And Prospects For The Future, Mti Report 12-31, Burford Furman, Sam Ellis, Lawrence Fabian, Peter Muller

Mineta Transportation Institute

The concept of Automated Transit Networks (ATN) - in which fully automated vehicles on exclusive, grade-separated guideways provide on-demand, primarily non-stop, origin-to-destination service over an area network – has been around since the 1950s. However, only a few systems are in current operation around the world. ATN does not appear “on the radar” of urban planners, transit professionals, or policy makers when it comes to designing solutions for current transit problems in urban areas. This study explains ATN technology, setting it in the larger context of Automated Guideway Transit (AGT); looks at the current status of ATN suppliers, the status …


A Longitudinal Analysis Of Cars, Transit, And Employment Outcomes, Michael J. Smart, Nicholas J. Klein 2015 Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

A Longitudinal Analysis Of Cars, Transit, And Employment Outcomes, Michael J. Smart, Nicholas J. Klein

Mineta Transportation Institute

Access to cars and transit can influence individuals’ ability to reach opportunities such as jobs, health care, and other important activities. While access to cars and public transit varies considerably across time, space, and across populations, most research portrays car access as a snapshot in time; some people have a car and others do not. But does this snapshot approach mask variation in car ownership over time? And how does access to particular types of transportation resources influence individuals’ economic outcomes?

The authors improve upon existing research by using panel data from 1999 to 2013 from the Panel Study of …


A Rolling Horizon Auction Mechanism And Virtual Pricing Of Shipping Capacity For Urban Consolidation Centers, Chen WANG, Hoong Chuin LAU, Yun Fong LIM 2015 SAP Innovation Centre, Singapore

A Rolling Horizon Auction Mechanism And Virtual Pricing Of Shipping Capacity For Urban Consolidation Centers, Chen Wang, Hoong Chuin Lau, Yun Fong Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A number of cities around the world have adopted urban consolidation centers (UCCs) to address challenges of last-mile deliveries. At the UCC, goods are consolidated based on their destinations prior to their deliveries into city centers. Typically, a UCC owns a fleet of ecofriendly vehicles to carry out such deliveries. Shippers/carriers that make use of the UCC’s service hence no longer need to be restricted by timewindow and vehicle-type regulations. As a result, they retain the ability to deploy large trucks for the economies of scale from the source to the UCC which is located outside the city center. Furthermore, …


Designing Bus Transit Services For Routine Crowd Situations At Large Event Venues, Jianli DU, Shih-Fen CHENG, Hoong Chuin LAU 2015 Singapore Management University

Designing Bus Transit Services For Routine Crowd Situations At Large Event Venues, Jianli Du, Shih-Fen Cheng, Hoong Chuin Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We are concerned with the routine crowd management problem after a major event at a known venue. Without properly design complementary transport services, such sudden crowd build-ups will overwhelm the existing infrastructure. In this paper, we introduce a novel flow-rate based model to model the dynamic movement of passengers over the transportation flow network. Based on this basic model, an integer linear programming model is proposed to solve the bus transit problem permanently. We validate our model against a real scenario in Singapore, where a newly constructed mega-stadium hosts various large events regularly. The results show that the proposed approach …


Session Report - Theme 6: Training, Capacity Building, Science & Research, Jim Parsons 2015 World Maritime University

Session Report - Theme 6: Training, Capacity Building, Science & Research, Jim Parsons

ShipArc 2015 Conference

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The Efficacy Of Aircraft Type Club Safety, William Jeffrey "Jeff" Edwards 2015 Saint Louis University

The Efficacy Of Aircraft Type Club Safety, William Jeffrey "Jeff" Edwards

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

The FAA and industry are attempting to make significant improvements in general aviation (GA) safety through voluntary measures largely carried out by grassroots aviation organizations, such as aircraft type clubs. While aircraft type clubs are principally focused on safety and education efforts, little is known about the efficacy of their voluntary measures. Research is lacking with respect to understanding whether or not voluntary measures contribute to GA safety. This mixed methods research quantifies the accident data of three aircraft type clubs and compares the safety of their members to nonmembers. A qualitative examination reveals why type club members may have …


Webinar: Pedestrians Count! – How To Measure Foot Traffic, Krista Nordback, Shawn Turner, Scott Brady, Theo Petritsch, David Jones 2015 Portland State University

Webinar: Pedestrians Count! – How To Measure Foot Traffic, Krista Nordback, Shawn Turner, Scott Brady, Theo Petritsch, David Jones

TREC Webinar Series

Learn from experts and share your knowledge of how to count pedestrians. Are people with clipboards the only way? What technologies work and how can we use them? How can an agency improve an existing or start a new pedestrian count program? Join us for an information sharing webinar on this quickly evolving topic. We will learn from leaders in the field and encourage active audience involvement, so come prepared to share your experience!

This IBPI webinar is part of a project sponsored by FHWA to study best practices in pedestrian traffic monitoring.

Portland State University is working with ICF …


Establishing The Arctic Waterway Safety Committee, James P. Houck 2015 U.S. Coast Guard

Establishing The Arctic Waterway Safety Committee, James P. Houck

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Polar Code: Assuring Safe & Environmentally Sound Arctic Navigation, Ed Page (ret.) 2015 U.S. Coast Guard

Beyond The Polar Code: Assuring Safe & Environmentally Sound Arctic Navigation, Ed Page (Ret.)

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Supply Chain Performance Impacts On Arctic Transport, Zeeshan Raza 2015 Buskerud & Vestfold University College

Supply Chain Performance Impacts On Arctic Transport, Zeeshan Raza

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Maritime Transport In The Arctic After The Introduction Of The Polar Code: A Discussion Of The New Training Needs, Dimitrios Dalaklis 2015 World Maritime University

Maritime Transport In The Arctic After The Introduction Of The Polar Code: A Discussion Of The New Training Needs, Dimitrios Dalaklis

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Arctic Maritime Safety & Security - The Human Element Seen From The Captain´S Table, Johanna Salokannel, Harri Ruoslahti 2015 Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Arctic Maritime Safety & Security - The Human Element Seen From The Captain´S Table, Johanna Salokannel, Harri Ruoslahti

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Offshore Is Onshore, Rasmus Dahlberg 2015 Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research

Offshore Is Onshore, Rasmus Dahlberg

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Arctic Environment Preservation Through Grounding Avoidance, R. Glenn Wright, Michael Baldauf 2015 GMATEK Inc.

Arctic Environment Preservation Through Grounding Avoidance, R. Glenn Wright, Michael Baldauf

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


A Joint Industry Programme, Mathijs Smith 2015 Arctic JIP Environmental Effects Technical Working Group

A Joint Industry Programme, Mathijs Smith

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Safe Navigation In The Arctic, Burcu Ozsoy-Cicek 2015 İTÜ Maritime Faculty

Safe Navigation In The Arctic, Burcu Ozsoy-Cicek

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Polar Code: Imo Measures For Assuring Safe & Environmentally Sound Arctic Navigation, J. Ashley Roach 2015 U.S. Department of State

Beyond The Polar Code: Imo Measures For Assuring Safe & Environmentally Sound Arctic Navigation, J. Ashley Roach

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


Forecasting The Big Picture: Arctic Ecosystems, Climate Change, Shipping & Fisheries, Mary S. Wisz 2015 Technical University of Denmark,

Forecasting The Big Picture: Arctic Ecosystems, Climate Change, Shipping & Fisheries, Mary S. Wisz

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.


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