Future Transportation, Volume 2, Issue 4

Several issues in designing a vehicle platoon control system must be considered; among them, the speed consensus and space/gap regulation between the vehicles play the primary role. In addition, reliable and fast gap-closing/opening actions are highl...

Automated shuttles can make public transport more attractive and sustainable. Still, their successful implementation requires a high level of acceptance among users. This study investigates the impact of the predictors performance expectancy, social ...

Airlines’ major adoption of digital technology during the COVID-19 crisis may have changed how customers experience the services and may affect passengers’ perceptions compared to the past. However, there is a lack of studies systematical...

Road friction has long been recognized as one of the most effective winter road maintenance (WRM) performance measures. It allows WRM personnel to make more informed decisions to improve their services and helps road users make trip-related decisions...

In this survey-based study, passenger awareness and acceptability of potential teleoperation services in the railway domain were analyzed. The literature on the important factors for the acceptability of automated transport was reviewed. These factor...

Large-truck crashes often result in substantial economic and social costs. Accurate prediction of the severity level of a reported truck crash can help rescue teams and emergency medical services take the right actions and provide proper medical care...

Drones are being considered as an alternative transport mode to ground based van networks. Whilst the speed and application of such networks has been extensively studied, the safety aspects of such modes have not been directly compared. Using UK Depa...

Human Factors are stable psychological, psychophysical, and physiological limits that influence the performance and safety of technical systems managed by humans. Roads are made for human use, but nowadays not completely on a human scale. Many studie...

A reliable public transport system is beneficial for people traveling in the metropolitan area. Transfer time in multimodal transit networks has been highlighted as one of the measures of public transport service quality. In this paper, we propose a...

Urban logistics consumes a large portion of energy resources worldwide. Thus, optimization algorithms are used to define mobility modes, vehicle fleets, routing plans, and last-mile delivery operations to reduce energy consumption such as metaheurist...

Critical infrastructure systems—such as transportation—are the backbone of society. Infrastructure development can thus be acknowledged as a common societal concern in the field of governance, and its recognition as a policy problem is cr...

Among the various effects of high-speed rail (HSR), a direct benefit to users has been measured as an increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) by the conventional cost–benefit analysis (CBA), which was institutionalized in the U.K. In recen...

Models to predict ramp meter queue length from traffic detector data are potentially useful tools in improving traffic operations and safety. Existing research, however, has been based on microscopic simulation or relied on extensive calibration of K...

This manuscript is based on cooperation between the universities in Tampere, Finland and Braunschweig, Germany. New tram lines are being built or extended in both cities to provide better connections to public transportation and increase accessibilit...

This paper aims at exploring the efficiency of regional airports, whose traffic is highly dependent on touristic flows, and the impact of some external factors such as low-cost airlines, charter air traffic and seasonality. The analysis focuses on th...