Transportation planning and public health have important historical roots. To address common challenges, including road traffic fatalities, integration of theories and methods from both disciplines is required. This paper presents an overview of Geoffrey Rose's strategy of preventive medicine applied to road traffic fatalities. One of the basic principles of Rose's strategy is that a large numb...

From our experiences in the past, we have seen that the growth of cities is very much dependent on the transportation networks. In mega cities, transportation networks determine to a significant extent as to where the people will move and houses will be built. Hence, transportation network data is crucial to an urban growth prediction system. Existing works have used manually derived distance b...

This paper deals with design of walking beam pendel axle suspension system. This axles and suspension systems are mainly required for transportation of heavy duty and Over Dimension Consignment (ODC) cargo, which is exceeding legal limit in terms of length, width and height. Presently, in Indian transportation industry, ODC movement growth rate has increased in transportation of bridge sections...

In Iran, more than 94% of transportation is road transportation. The goal this article to assess and rate companies 31 country provinces determine the effect integrating six sigma DMAIC cycle dynamic data envelopment analysis (DDEA) on effective inputs outputs. BCC output-oriented has been changed model. According conducted sensitivity in improvement phase, it determined what changes should be ...

Algorithms for path planning have recently drawn renewed attention from researchers due to the advances of intelligent transportation applications. The difference on path planning between past and nowadays is the complexity of dynamic transportation network. This paper focuses on the road network modeling to speed up real time path discovery in dynamic and complex road networks. On the basis of...

Five major sources for the ambient aerosol in Gainesville, FL were sampled by using a MicroOrifice Uniform Deposit Impactor (MOUDI) and a University of Washington Mark III Cascade Impactor. The samples were analyzed for carbons and ions. Soil dust, unpaved road dust, cement dust particles and marine aerosols were mainly in the coarse mode, while particles from transportation showed a bi-modal o...

The vehicle routing problem has been widely studied from a technical point of view for more than 50 years. Many of its variants are rooted in practical settings. This paper provides a survey of the main real-life applications of road-based goods transportation over the past 15 years. It reviews papers in the areas of oil, gas and fuel transportation, retail, waste collection and management, mai...

The very high cost of highway accidents paid by societies around the world makes the highway safety improvement an important objective of transportation engineering. The high speed cars are gaining popularity as one of the important means of transportation among the middle and higher income group of the society in India. At the same time the road accident statistics with regard to these high sp...

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Over the past 20 years a variety of electronic markets have been set-up to improve the allocation of capacities in road transportation. Although existing inefficiencies and cost pressures provide a strong rationale for electronic market solutions, most attempts have failed so far. Based on an overview of the so-called electronic transportation exchanges we will analyze the factors that were inv...