Hysteresis and the Unobserved Congestion Branch in the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram: Theoretical Considerations and Modeling

K Yuan, VL Knoop - Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) is developed to describe traffic operations
aggregated over an area. The MFD is defined by network traffic states as a relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Electric bike navigation behaviour in pedestrian crowds

K Kazemzadeh, A Laureshyn, E Ronchi… - Travel behaviour and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates the influence of pedestrian crowdedness on e-bike navigation
behaviour in a controlled field experiment. The dataset includes a total of 1520 trajectories …

Agent-Based Modeling for Sustainable Urban Passenger Vehicle Mobility: A Case of Tehran

ME Doraki, A Avami, M Boroushaki, Z Amini - Transportation Research Part …, 2024 - Elsevier
In response to escalating congestion and deteriorating air quality in urban centers
worldwide, exacerbated by overburdened transportation systems, there is an urgent need for …

Three-dimensional macroscopic fundamental diagram for car and bicycle heterogeneous traffic

Y Huang, D Sun, S Zhang - Transportmetrica B: transport dynamics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Urban road facilities are typically shared by heterogeneous traffic, such as cars, buses, and
bicycles. This paper investigates the car and bicycle traffic at the network level by extending …

How many cars in the city are too many? Towards finding the optimal modal split for a multi-modal urban road network

A Loder, L Bressan, MJ Wierbos, H Becker… - Frontiers in Future …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Interactions among different modes or vehicle classes in urban road networks affect the
network performance in different and complex ways. Thus, an answer to the question of …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical investigation of shared space traffic: A comparison to conventional urban road environment

PG Tzouras, K Kepaptsoglou, EI Vlahogianni - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Shared space is an unconventional concept that is not based on formal rules and standards,
as it encourages road users to share the same road space with little physical or visual …

Optimization of Traffic Flow by Allowing Private Cars to Merge into the Bus Lane at Specific Locations

Z Yin, K Yuan, S Zheng - Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A dedicated bus lane is designed to give priority to buses over private cars on the road.
However, this approach might waste road traffic capacity when bus demand is low and …

Impact of bicycle traffic on the macroscopic fundamental diagram: some empirical findings in Shanghai

Y Huang, D Sun, A Li, KW Axhausen - … A: transport science, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Interactions between bicycles and cars have attracted increasing attention during recent
years. This paper aims to investigate the impact of bicycle traffic on the macroscopic …

Estimating lane utilization for variable approach lanes using explainable machine learning

AJ Alagbé, S Jin, Q Bao, W Guo - Transportmetrica B: Transport …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the flow distribution patterns at intersection approaches with variable
approach lanes (VALs) and proposes a new lane utilization adjustment factor specifically for …

Capacity gains of splitting cross-traffic into multiple sub-streams

VL Knoop, M Jettina Wierbos… - Transportation …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Traffic flow might be limited by cross-traffic which has priority. A typical example of such a
situation is a location where cyclists or pedestrians cross a stream of car traffic. Splitting the …