Cost-effective public transit options suitable for serving all demand levels include: bus service in mixed traffic, bus service in reserved lane, transitway/buswdy, light rail transit (LRT) (segregated right of way), intermediate capacity advanced light rail transit (ALRT), and heavy rail rapid transit. This classification of transit options takes into account right-of-way access (that is, mixe...

We examine the effects of urban rail transit on on-road carbon emissions in 90 Chinese cities, taking a structural equation modeling approach. Urban theoretically helps mitigate overall transport-sector by absorbing part vehicular traffic demand or generating traffic-diversion effects. However, its net contribution is obscure, given potential traffic-creation effects, since improved access can ...

BACKGROUND Traffic noise can induce stress reactions that have effects on the cardiovascular system. The exposure-risk relationship between aircraft, road, and rail traffic noise and myocardial infarction is currently unknown. METHODS 19 632 patients from the Rhine-Main region of Germany who were diagnosed with myocardial infarction in the years 2006-2010 were compared with 834 734 control su...

From a system-theoretic standpoint, a constrained state-space model for train traffic in a large railway network is developed. The novelty of the work is the transformation or rather reduction of the directed graph of the network to some parallel lists. Mathematization of this sophisticated problem is thus circumvented. All the aspects of a real network (such as that of the German Rail) are com...

The land-transportation cannot meet its demands anymore. Jammed highways and cities, dangerous emissions, omnipresent traffic accidents, delays, expensive railways.
 Solutions are being sought to transfer a large part of passenger- especially freight-traffic (high-speed) rail the efforts shifting towards electromobility, car-sharing, 5G-connectivity, autonomous ride, MaaS-transport-coordin...

Hazardous materials traffic originates and terminates at numerous different locations throughout the North American railroad network. Rerouting of this traffic, especially Toxic Inhalation Hazard materials, away from populated areas has received considerable attention in recent years as a means of reducing risk. However, rerouting on a route specific basis is neither simple nor necessarily effe...

Yunxiao Fu 1,2, Limin Jia 2,3,*, Yong Qin 2,3, Jie Yang 2,4 and Ding Fu 5 1 State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; [email protected] 2 School of Electric Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; [email protected] (Y.Q.); [email protected] (J.Y.) 3 Beijing Research Center of Urban Traffic Inform...