This paper studies travelers’ context-dependent route choice behavior in a risky trafficnetwork from a long-term perspective, focusing on the effect of travelers’ salience characteristics. In particular, a flow-dependent salience theory i...
As a countermeasure to urban exhaust pollution and traffic congestion, traffic restriction based on the last digit of license plate numbers has been widely introduced throughout the world. However, the effect of traffic restriction is weakened as it...
Despite the availability of electronic navigators and automated vehicles, static wayfinding instructions remain widely used due to their resistance to signal disturbances, as well as their economic and environmental advantages over electronic signs....
In this paper, we employ a target-oriented approach to analyze the multi-attribute route choice decision of travelers in the stochastic tolled traffic network, considering the influence of three attributes, which are (stochastic) travel time, (stocha...
24 May 2020
The popularity of electric bicycles in China makes them a common transportation mode for people to commute and move around. However, with the increase in traffic volumes for both vehicles and electric bicycles, urban traffic safety and congestion pro...
The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into travelers’ bi-attribute (travel time and travel cost) risky mode choice behavior with one risky option (i.e., the highway) and one non-risky option (i.e., the transit) from the long-term plann...
An optimal pavement maintenance strategy can keep the pavement performance at a high level under budget constraint. However, the impact of changes in traffic distribution caused by maintenance actions on user costs is rarely investigated in existing...
The environment problem is a sustainable hot topic in the field of transportation research. With higher awareness of the environment problem, travelers tend to choose more environment friendly traffic modes and travel routes. However, for motor vehic...
We analyze the feasibility of providing Wireless Sensor Network-data-based services in an Internet of Things scenario from an economical point of view. The scenario has two competing service providers with their own private sensor networks, a network...
This study proposes a target-oriented method to study travelers’ route choice behavior under travel time variability, and discusses the resulted equilibrium flow patterns. Both travel time reliability and travel time unreliability are considere...
The integration of Connected Vehicles into conventional traffic systems presents significant challenges due to the diverse behaviors and objectives of different drivers. Conventional vehicle drivers typically follow User Equilibrium principles, aimin...
A tradable credit scheme (TCS) is a novel traffic demand management (TDM) measure that can effectively mitigate traffic congestion in a revenue-neutral way. Under a given TCS, the cognitive illusion (CI) would occur when travelers instinctively use a...
This paper proposes an incentive scheme based on a public–private partnership (PPP) to encourage low-carbon travel behavior by inducing the mode choice shift from private cars to public transit. The scheme involves three key entities: travelers...
Traffic assignment model (TAM) is an important research issue of urban traffic design and planning. Most of the existing studies are conducted under deterministic conditions. In reality, the link travel time and waiting time at signalized intersectio...
The rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) has created new challenges for the coordinated low-carbon operation of transportation and power systems. To address this issue, this paper proposes an adaptive rolling-horizon dynamic user equilibrium (DUE)...
The primary traffic-based indicators for identifying critical links account for travel time, transportation efficiency, and traffic demand. These indicators are seldom applied to scenarios in which link capacity degradation occurs across the entire n...
In cities with serious air pollution, travel time and health damage significantly affect route choice by travelers (e.g., motorcycle and scooter drivers). Consequently, the classical Braess paradox is no longer realistic because it only considers the...
The integration of renewable energy into power grids is imperative for reducing carbon emissions and mitigating reliance on depleting fossil fuels. In this paper, we develop symmetric and asymmetric evolutionary game-theoretic models to analyze how u...
With the continued recognition of the devastating effects of natural hazards, the construction of shelters has become essential in urban disaster preparedness planning systems. After analyzing the deficiency of the conventional spatial allocation mod...
Highway toll stations are equipped with electronic toll collection (ETC) lanes and manual toll collection (MTC) lanes. It is anticipated that connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), MTC human-driven vehicles (MTC-HVs), and ETC human-driven vehicles (ET...
As a clean energy, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is consistent with the coordinated and sustainable development of both the economy and environment. However, LPG is a hazardous material (hazmat) and is thus always transported in cylinders by vehicles...
This article studies the strategic access of single-server retrial queue with two types of customers, where priority is given according to their category. On the basis of this concept, a cognitive-radio network was developed as retrial queue with ene...
This study researches the dynamical location optimization problem of a mobile charging station (MCS) powered by a LiFePO
Large-scale traffic simulations at a microscopic level can mimic the physical reality in great detail so that innovative transport services can be evaluated. However, the simulation times of such scenarios is currently too long to be practical. (1) B...
Maintaining rural highways is crucial in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of transportation infrastructure in modern rural areas. Rural highways often suffer heavy traffic from logistics and regular transportation users. The efficient manageme...
Line planning and timetabling play important roles in the design of urban rail transportation services. Due to the complexity of the integrated optimization of entire transportation plans, previous studies have generally considered line planning and...
With the popularization of electric vehicles and the continuous expansion of the electric vehicle market, the construction and management of charging facilities for electric vehicles have become important issues in research and practice. In some remo...
The passenger flow assignment in the rail transit network is the basis for determining the passenger spatiotemporal distribution and train operation organization plan. In previous studies, the passenger flow assignment problem mainly focused on lines...
The problem of traffic assignment consists of determining the routes taken by the users of transportation infrastructure. This problem has been the subject of numerous studies, particularly in analyzing scenarios for developing road infrastructure an...
This paper analyzes the balanced interaction strategy of an integrated energy system (IES) operator and an industrial user in the operation process of the IES under the demand-side management (DSM) based on game theory. Firstly, we establish an elect...
29 January 2021
Travelers decide whether to participate in ridesharing based on the trade-off between the travel time and the expense. However, it is still unclear how travelers’ values of time affect their ridesharing behaviors on the congested network. To th...
With the rapidly increasing number of electric vehicle users, in many urbans transport networks, there are mixed traffic flows (i.e., electric vehicles and gasoline vehicles). However, limited by driving ranges and long battery recharging, the batter...
China has been facing a contradiction between its water supply and demand for a long time, and it is urgent that it builds a “water-saving society”. Previous research on water pricing mainly focused on the policy level, only considering t...
Ultra-dense and highly heterogeneous network (HetNet) deployments make the allocation of limited wireless resources among ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices an unprecedented challenge in 5G and beyond (B5G) networks. The interactions among m...
The integrated energy system is the mainstream energy utilization form of integrating a power system, natural gas system and thermal system, which provides a new way to solve the problem of renewable energy accommodation. The integrated energy system...
In this paper, we study the demand response of the thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) to control their set-point temperatures by considering the tradeoff between the electricity payment and TCL user’s comfort preference. Based upon the dy...
Based on consumers’ different preferences for hassle costs, we study two platform operation strategies: selected platforms and diversified platforms. Considering diverse charging systems of merchants on the platform, a two-sided user utility fu...
Radio-frequency spectrum resources are finite and scarce, but their demand is increasing exponentially every year. Therefore, wireless network resources are too expensive to be wasted. To avoid waste, pricing techniques can efficiently control resour...
Mobile crowdsourcing has been exploited to collect enough fingerprints for fingerprinting-based localization. Since the construction of a fingerprint database is time consuming, mobile users should be well motivated to participate in fingerprint coll...
Co-operative spectrum sensing emerging as a significant method to improve the utilization of the spectrum needs sufficient sensing users to participate. Existing related papers consider only the limited secondary users in current sensing system and a...
This paper studies an efficient computing resource offloading mechanism for UAV-enabled edge computing. According to the interests of three different roles: base station, UAV, and user, we comprehensively consider the factors such as time delay, oper...
Against the backdrop of intensifying global technological competition and the deepening of the national innovation-driven strategy, private technology enterprises, as the core entities of technological innovation, have their sustainable innovation dy...
This paper introduces a general stochastic game analysis of a network scenario consisting of a mix of cooperative and non-cooperative players (i.e., users) under incomplete game information. Users access a shared channel using the Slotted ALOHA mecha...
3 January 2026
With the significant increase in users’ privacy awareness and strict regulatory response, user privacy protection faces a dilemma between platform operational flexibility and commercial potential. The personal data use authorization has become...
At present, malware is still a major security threat to computer networks. However, only a fraction of users with some security consciousness take security measures to protect computers on their own initiative, and others who know the current situati...
In this paper, we study joint relay selection and the power control optimization problem in an anti-jamming relay communication system. Considering the hierarchical competitive relationship between a user and jammer, we formulate the anti-jamming pro...
Nowadays, traffic management challenges in the era of digital transport are rising, as the interactions of various stakeholders providing such technologies play a pivotal role in shaping traffic dynamics. The objective of this paper was to present a...
The microgrid trading market can effectively solve the problem of in-situ consumption of distributed energy and reduce the impact of distributed generation (DG) on the grid. However, the traditional microgrid trading model has some shortcomings, such...
1 September 2017
Many users or consumers now operate the two sides of the market as consumers and producers. They are known as prosumers. Their presence is changing the economic dynamic. This paper develops two models, the prosumerism model that determines the prosum...
This paper considers a callback single-server system with an orbit and a First-Come First-Served (FCFS) service discipline. Customers (users, clients) that encounter a busy server are sent into orbit and then have the option to retry service after an...
of 7