Assessing the environmental performances of urban roundabouts using the VSP methodology and AIMSUN

F Acuto, MC Coelho, P Fernandes, T Giuffre… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
In line with globally shared environmental sustainability goals, the shift towards citizen-
friendly mobility is changing the way people move through cities and road user behaviour …

A microsimulation modelling approach to quantify environmental footprint of autonomous buses

U Hasan, A Whyte, H AlJassmi - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study a novel microsimulation-based methodology for environmental assessment of
urban systems is developed to address the performance of autonomous mass-mobility …

Estimation of Environmental Rebound Effect Induced by Shared Automated Passenger Transport Service in a Mid-Size European City via Microsimulation

A Garus, B Alonso Oreña… - Transportation …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The introduction of autonomous vehicles will revolutionize transport in urban and rural
areas. Nevertheless, before we allow autonomous vehicles to roam our streets, we should …

Driving around turbo-roundabouts vs. conventional roundabouts: Are there advantages regarding pollutant emissions?

P Fernandes, SR Pereira, JM Bandeira… - … journal of sustainable …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article addresses the impact of turbo-roundabouts located in urban areas on pollutant
emissions using field measurements of vehicle activity data and road congestion levels. The …

Carbon Footprint of autonomous vehicles at the urban mobility system level: A traffic simulation-based approach

SM Patella, F Scrucca, F Asdrubali… - … Research Part D …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of a Carbon Footprint (CF) study of Autonomous Vehicles
(AVs) and their environmental impact on the transportation network. By assuming that fully …

A decision support framework to evaluate the sustainability performance of urban road transportation

A Babaei, M Khedmati, MRA Jokar… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
This study proposes a decision support framework (DSF) based on two data envelopment
analysis (DEA) models in order to evaluate the urban road transportation of countries for …

Assessing on-road emissions from urban buses in different traffic congestion scenarios by integrating real-world driving, traffic, and emissions data

F Rosero, N Fonseca, Z Mera, JM López - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the integration of traffic simulators and emission models has become the
most preferred option for evaluating vehicle emissions in different traffic states. However, the …

Improving fuel consumption and CO2 emissions calculations in urban areas by coupling a dynamic micro traffic model with an instantaneous emissions model

C Samaras, D Tsokolis, S Toffolo, G Magra… - … Research Part D …, 2018 - Elsevier
Τhis study demonstrates the combination of a microscopic traffic simulator (AIMSUN) with an
instantaneous emissions model (AVL CRUISE) to investigate the impact of traffic congestion …

Assessing vehicle emissions from a multi-lane to turbo roundabout conversion using a microsimulation tool

M Mądziel, T Campisi, A Jaworski, H Kuszewski, P Woś - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The development of urban strategies for the reduction of environmental impacts and
decarbonization requires ongoing monitoring from the local scale and further deployment of …

Impacts of roundabouts in suburban areas on congestion-specific vehicle speed profiles, pollutant and noise emissions: An empirical analysis

P Fernandes, R Tomás, F Acuto, A Pascale… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing concern about global warming and air quality has meant an increasing use of
energetic and environmental indicators in roundabout design. This research compares …