Advancements in Traffic Simulation for Enhanced Road Safety: A Review

A Mustapha, AM Abdul-Rani, N Saad… - … Modelling Practice and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Traffic simulation techniques play a crucial role in transportation engineering, offering a
sophisticated framework for analysing the intricate dynamics within transportation systems …

Improving drivers' merging performance in work zone using an in-vehicle audio warning

K Duan, X Yan, X Li, J Hang - … research part F: traffic psychology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Work zone poses a great impact on traffic safety, and one of the important reasons is the
increased merging behavior caused by lane closure. This study focuses on drivers' lane …

Assessing the factors affecting the perceived crossing speed of pedestrians and investigating the direct and indirect effects of crash risk perception on perceived …

A Saxena - Journal of Transport & Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Walking is the primary means of transportation. For assessing individual's health, travel
behaviour and benchmarking service levels of pedestrian infrastructure, walking/crossing …

Identification and factor analysis of traffic conflicts in the merge area of freeway work zone

P Wang, S Zhu, X Zhao - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The merge areas of freeway work zones include relatively significant safety hazards that
have continuously led to urgent safety issues to be solved by the management departments …

Speed harmonisation and merge control using connected automated vehicles on a highway lane closure: a reinforcement learning approach

B Ko, S Ryu, BB Park, SH Son - IET Intelligent Transport …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A lane closure bottleneck usually leads to traffic congestion and a waste of fuel consumption
on highways. In mixed traffic that consists of human‐driven vehicles and connected …

Towards smart work zones: Creating safe and efficient work zones in the technology era

SP Venthuruthiyil, D Thapa, S Mishra - Journal of safety research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction: Work Zones (WZs) have long been identified as a source of traffic
fatalities and delays. Despite considerable technological advances that have alleviated …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impact of driver compliance on traffic flow and safety in work zones amid varied mixed autonomy scenarios

E Kazemi, I Soltani - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The safety of work zones is a critical issue for drivers, transportation agencies, and
governing authorities. In particular, the vehicles that perform lane changes in the proximity of …

Study of improved signal‐based merge strategy in work zone areas based on Cellular Automata simulation

K Duan, X Yan, J Hang, X Li - IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Work zones have critical effects on traffic safety and efficiency. Previous researchers have
developed lots of merge strategies to regulate drivers' behaviours, which can be divided into …

Work zone late merge strategies in connected vehicle operation environment

Y Xu, H Wei, D Nian, W Lin - International Conference on …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
The emergence of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) provides an emerging CAV-
generated data environment in which the late merge metering strategies can be explored to …

Pedestrian perception of safety in areas with newly provided pedestrian facility: the case of Bangalore's tender SURE (specifications for urban utilities and road …

A Saxena, PS Reashma, B Kabade - National Conference on Recent …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract According to India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH), every sixth
person killed in a road accident is a pedestrian, making pedestrians vulnerable road users …