Bicycle lane priority: Promoting bicycle as a green mode even in congested urban area

SA Bagloee, M Sarvi, M Wallace - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016 - Elsevier
The main obstacles to boosting the bicycle as a mode of transport are safety concerns due to
interactions with motorized traffic. One option is to separate cyclists from motorists through …

A hybrid machine-learning and optimization method to solve bi-level problems

SA Bagloee, M Asadi, M Sarvi, M Patriksson - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bi-level optimization has widespread applications in many disciplines including
management, economy, energy, and transportation. Because it is by nature a NP-hard …

Identifying critical disruption scenarios and a global robustness index tailored to real life road networks

SA Bagloee, M Sarvi, B Wolshon, V Dixit - Transportation research part E …, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability to maintain functionality in transport infrastructure is critical during disruptions. To
ensure operational robustness in transportation networks, it is necessary to identify the most …

A hybrid branch‐and‐bound and benders decomposition algorithm for the network design problem

SA Bagloee, M Sarvi… - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Given a set of candidate road projects associated with costs, finding the best subset with
respect to a limited budget is known as the network design problem (NDP). The NDP is often …

A heuristic methodology to tackle the Braess Paradox detecting problem tailored for real road networks

SA Bagloee, A Ceder, M Tavana… - … A: Transport Science, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Adding a new road to help traffic flow in a congested urban network may at first appear to be
a good idea. The Braess Paradox (BP) says, adding new capacity may actually worsen …

Prioritizing road extension projects with interdependent benefits under time constraint

SA Bagloee, M Asadi - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2015 - Elsevier
Since transportation projects are costly and resources are limited, prioritizing or sequencing
the projects is imperative. This study was inspired by a client who asked:“I have tens of …

Optimization for roads' construction: selection, prioritization, and scheduling

SA Bagloee, M Sarvi, M Patriksson… - Computer‐Aided Civil …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Limited resources (budget, labor, machinery) have a significant toll on the roads'
construction. The question of interest is: given variations of resources over a lengthy …

Prioritizing interrelated road projects using metaheuristics

E Shayanfar, AS Abianeh, P Schonfeld… - Journal of Infrastructure …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Projects are considered interrelated when their benefits or costs depend on which other
projects are implemented. The timing of such projects may also complicate their analysis …

A modern congestion pricing policy for urban traffic: subsidy plus toll

SA Bagloee, M Sarvi - Journal of Modern Transportation, 2017 - Springer
Congestion pricing is seen as an effective policy to address traffic congestion. In such
policies where money, people and authorities are involved, the success generally hinges …

Transit priority lanes in the congested road networks

SA Bagloee, M Sarvi, A Ceder - Public Transport, 2017 - Springer
Given the advances in communication technologies and real-time traffic management,
transit priority lanes are emerging as an indispensable component of intelligent transport …