TRB Publications (September – October, 2021)

Posted on November 17, 2021November 17, 2021

The following is a list of research published by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) between September 1, 2021 and October 31, 2021. Current articles from the TRB may be accessed here.

Performance-Based and Evidence-Based Approach to Research Implementation at the Georgia Department of Transportation

Image reads: Bicycles and Pedestrians

Level Crossing Safety Impact Assessments for Vehicle and Pedestrian Crossings

Driver Yielding and Pedestrian Performance at Midblock Crossings on Three-Lane Roadways with Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons

Hazard-Based Duration Approach to Pedestrian Crossing Behavior at Signalized Intersections

Evaluating Pedestrian Crash-Prone Locations to Formulate Policy Interventions for Improved Safety and Walkability at Sidewalks and Crosswalks

Development of Pedestrian Recall Versus Actuation Guidelines for Pedestrian Crossings at Signalized Intersections

Auditory Alerts and Safety with Simulated Bicycles and Motor Vehicles

Changes in Travel Behavior, Attitudes, and Preferences among E-Scooter Riders and Nonriders: First Look at Results from Pre and Post E-Scooter System Launch Surveys at Virginia Tech

Empirical Study of the Impacts of Bicycles on Passenger Car Speeds on Urban Roads without Bicycle Lanes

Image reads: Bridges and Structures

Measuring Instantaneous Resilience of a Highway Bridge Subjected to Earthquake Events

Performance of Waterproofing Membranes to Protect Concrete Bridge Decks

Learnings from the Field Implementation of a Novel Ultra-High Performance Concrete Beam End Repair on a Corroded Steel Girder Bridge in Connecticut

Benchmarking Unmanned Aerial Systems-Assisted Inspection of Steel Bridges for Fatigue Cracks

Cost Escalation in Road Construction Contracts

Field Validation of Effective Dispersion Analysis of Reflections, a New Method for Nondestructive Estimation of Pile Depth

Learning from the Past to Prepare for the Future: Adapting Freight and Supply Chains to Resilience Factors

Environmental and Economic Effects of Fuel Savings in Driving Phase Resulting from Substitution of Light Metals in European Passenger Car Production

Optimal Approach to Improving the Utilization of Regenerative Energy Considering Power Profile

Emission Implications of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Through an Empirical Exploration of Engine Starts

Modeling CO2 Emissions from Trips using Urban Air Mobility and Emerging Automobile Technologies

Operational Feasibility Assessment of Battery Electric Construction Equipment Based on In-Use Activity Data

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Freight Flows in Southern California

Consistent Three-Dimensional Elasto-Plastic Model to Study Unsaturated Soil Behavior with Considerations of Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Hysteresis

I-RIPRAP Computer Vision Software for Automated Size and Shape Characterization of Riprap in Stockpile Images

Evaluating the Durability of Lime-Stabilized Soil Mixtures using Soil Mineralogy and Computational Geochemistry

Development of a Novel Intelligent Speed Adaptation System Based on Available Sight Distance

Are Roundabouts Safe and Economically Viable Replacing Conventional Diamond Interchange Ramp Terminals?

Effects of Pedestrian Crossing on Minor Road Capacity at Two-Way Stop-Controlled Intersections

Roundabouts in the United States: An International Comparison of Illuminance Requirements and Costs

Construction of an Electrically Heated Asphalt Road Based on Ribbon Technology

Rational Basis for Light Emitting Diode Street Lighting Retrofit Luminaire Selection

Cable Median Barrier Effect on Commercial Vehicle Crossover Crashes

Some New Developments in Two-Way-Stop-Controlled Intersections Procedures and Recommendations for a Future Version of the Highway Capacity Manual

Designing Crossing Islands for Speed Control and Intersection Safety on Two-Lane Collectors and Arterials

Connected Vehicle-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Algorithm to Divide and Reform Connected Vehicle Platoons at Signalized Intersections to Improve Traffic Throughput and Safety

Strategic Evacuation for Hurricanes and Regional Events with and without Autonomous Vehicles

Assessing the Impact of Automated and Connected Automated Vehicles on Virginia Freeways

Stop Sign Gap Assist Application in a Connected Vehicle Simulation Environment

Decrease in Viscosity Caused by Agglomeration and Particle Dispersion in Cement–Fly Ash Suspensions

Stabilization of the Highway Slope using Recycled Plastic Pins

Evaluation of Acceptance Risks through Percent within Limit for Highway Materials and Pavement Construction

Performance Evaluation of Different Insulating Materials using Field Temperature and Moisture Data

Engineered Semi-Flexible Composite Mixture Design and Its Implementation Method at Railroad Bridge Approach

New Turner-Fairbank Alkali-Silica Reaction Susceptibility Test for Aggregate Evaluation

Progressive Development of the Perched Water Zone in Highway Slopes Made of Highly Plastic Clay

Improvement of Strength and Volume-Change Properties of Expansive Clays with Geopolymer Treatment

Evaluating the Performance of Wicking Geotextile in Providing Drainage for Flexible Pavements Built over Expansive Soils

Evaluation of Chloride Intrusion along Concrete–Grout Interfaces for Post-Tensioned Concrete Durability

Slip Coefficient Testing of ASTM A709 Grade 50CR and Dissimilar Metal Bolted Connections

Relationship between Rheological Indices and Cracking Performance of Virgin, Recycled, and Rejuvenated Asphalt Binders and Mixtures

Xonotlite and Hillebrandite as Model Compounds for Calcium Silicate Hydrate Seeding in Cementitious Materials

Mechanical Properties of Nano-Modified Cementitious Composites Reinforced with Single and Hybrid Fibers

Effect of Nano-Silica on the Properties of Concrete and Its Interaction with Slag

Hydration and Early Age Properties of Cement Pastes Modified with Cellulose Nanofibrils

Role of Carbon Nanofiber on the Electrical Resistivity of Mortar under Compressive Load

Durability of Concrete Superficially Treated with Nano-Silica and Silane/Nano-Clay Coatings

Cellulose Nanocomposites for Performance Enhancement of Ordinary Portland Cement-Based Materials

Effects of Nanosilica as Suspensions on the Hydration and the Microstructure of Hardened Cement Paste

Image reads: Operations and Maintenance

The Forecast Is for Better Transportation Management

Vehicle Delay Estimation at Signalized Intersections Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Field Theory for Some Traffic Phenomena and Fundamental Diagram

Modeling Capacity of Through Movement at Signalized Intersection Affected by Short Left-Turn Bay under Different Signal Settings

Spatial Roadway Condition-Assessment Mapping Utilizing Smartphones and Machine Learning Algorithms

New Travel Time Reliability Methodology for Urban Arterial Corridors

Fuel Consumption Intersection Control Performance Index

Collection, Analysis, and Reporting of Kentucky Traffic Incident Management Performance

Efficient Road Crack Detection Based on an Adaptive Pixel-Level Segmentation Algorithm

Deriving Operational Traffic Signal Performance Measures from Vehicle Trajectory Data

Deep Learning to Detect Road Distress from Unmanned Aerial System Imagery

Data-Driven Approach to Quantify and Reduce Error Associated with Assigning Short Duration Counts to Traffic Pattern Groups

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Use of the Pavement Surface Cracking Metric to Quantify Distresses from Digital Images

Meso-Scale Kinematic Responses of Asphalt Mixture in Both Field and Laboratory Compaction

Field Density Investigation of Asphalt Mixtures in Minnesota

Local Calibration of Pavement Mechanistic-Empirical Faulting Reliability using Pavement Management Data

C-FLEX Advanced Finite Element Analysis Program for Flexible Pavement Analysis and Design

Using Large Linked Field Data Sets to Investigate Density’s Impact on the Performance of Washington State Department of Transportation Asphalt Pavements

Short-Term Field Performance and Cost-Effectiveness of Crumb-Rubber Modified Asphalt Emulsion in Chip Seal Applications

Results of the 10-Year Arizona Quiet Pavement Pilot Program

Predicting the Retroreflectivity Degradation of Waterborne Paint Pavement Markings using Advanced Machine Learning Techniques

Prototype Design of Cement/Emulsified Asphalt Based Piezoelectric Composites and its Potential Application in Vehicle Speed Sensing

Use of Time–Temperature Superposition Principle to Create Pavement Performance Master Curves and Relate Pavement Condition Index and International Roughness Index

Signal Stability and the Height-Correction Method for Ground-Penetrating Radar In Situ Asphalt Concrete Density Prediction

Development of Cost-Effective Restriping Strategies using Standard Width and Wide Waterborne Paints on Asphalt Pavements in Hot and Humid Climates

Redevelopment of Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting the Response of Bonded Concrete Overlays of Asphalt for use in a Faulting Prediction Model

Automated Detection and Classification of Pavement Distresses using 3D Pavement Surface Images and Deep Learning

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Pavement Crack Detection using an Inexpensive Global Shutter RGB-D Sensor and ARM-Based Single-Board Computer

Application of Mobile Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning Systems for Identification of Potential Pavement Rutting Locations

Detection of Pavement Maintenance Treatments using Deep-Learning Network

Pavement Distress and Debris Detection using a Mobile Mapping System with 2D Profiler LiDAR

Highway Asset and Pavement Condition Management using Mobile Photogrammetry

Application of Advanced Multi-Sensor Non-Destructive Testing System for the Evaluation of Pavements Affected by Transverse Crack-Heaving

Automated Asphalt Pavement Raveling Detection and Classification using Convolutional Neural Network and Macrotexture Analysis

Image Reads: Planning

Comparing Regional Sustainability and Transportation Sustainability at the Metropolitan Level in the U.S. using Artificial Neural Network Clustering Techniques

Drivers and Barriers of Households’ Carsharing Decisions

Development of a Simulated Three-Dimensional Truck Model to Predict Excess Fuel Consumption Resulting from Pavement Roughness

Measuring Changes in Multimodal Travel Behavior Resulting from Transport Supply Improvement

Evaluating Correlations of External Factors and Performance Measures of the Multimodal Transportation System in Florida

Travel Patterns of Frequent and Non-Frequent Users on I-66 High-Occupancy Toll Lanes and Implications for the Value of Time Estimation

Equity-Oriented Criteria for Project Prioritization in Regional Transportation Planning

Social Network Approach to Analyze Stability and Variability of Travel Decisions

Measuring the Regional Economic Impact of Transportation Access Improvements in the Context of a Large Metropolitan Region

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State of Emergency: What Transportation Learned from 9/11

Cyber-Resilience: A 21st-Century Challenge

Comparing Commercial Vehicle Fuel Consumption Models using Real-World Data under Calibration Constraints

Development of an Artificial Neural Network-Based Procedure for the Verification of Traffic Speed Deflectometer Measurements

Inferring the Purposes of using Ride-Hailing Services through Data Fusion of Trip Trajectories, Secondary Travel Surveys, and Land Use Data

Understanding Urban Commercial Vehicle Driver Behaviors and Decision Making

Use of Exclusive and Pooled Ridehailing Services in Three Mexican Cities

Transport Networking Companies Demand and Flow Estimation in New York City

Development of a Novel Convolutional Neural Network Architecture Named RoadweatherNet for Trajectory-Level Weather Detection using SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Data

Bayesian Approach to Developing Context-Based Crash Modification Factors for Medians on Rural Four-Lane Roadways

Impacts of School Reopening on Variations in Local Bus Performance in Sydney

Predicting Coordinated Actuated Traffic Signal Change Times using Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks

Real-Time Twitter Data Mining Approach to Infer User Perception Toward Active Mobility

Understanding Gap Acceptance Behavior at Unsignalized Intersections using Naturalistic Driving Study Data

Extraction of Construction Quality Requirements from Textual Specifications via Natural Language Processing

Spatio-Temporal Influence of Extreme Weather on a Taxi Market

Simulation Framework for Analysis of Relief Distribution Efforts after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Transportation Barriers among Immigrant Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

Simulation of Potential Use Cases for Shared Mobility Services in the City of Ann Arbor

Image reads: Safety and Human Performance

Emergency Evacuation: 20-Year Evolution of Research and Practice

Retooling Emergency Management: How Caltrans Transformed and Transcended the State of the Practice

Is It Safe Yet? Fear and What Can Be Done to Mitigate It

Interoperability of Public Safety Communications: An Elusive Goal

Bridge and Tunnel Security Resources

Successful Communication During Disruptive, Crisis Situations: 14th Annual Competition Identifies Best Practices

Factors Affecting Driver Injury Severity in the Wrong-Way Crash: Accounting for Potential Heterogeneity in Means and Variances of Random Parameters

Effects of Auditory Display Types and Acoustic Variables on Subjective Driver Assessment in a Rail Crossing Context

Systematic Review of Research on Driver Distraction in the Context of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Potential Effectiveness of Bicycle-Automatic Emergency Braking using the Washtenaw Area Transportation Study Data Set

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Highway Traffic Patterns in Hurricane Irma Evacuation

Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Lane-Change Maneuvers using the SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study Data

Assessment of Commercial Truck Driver Injury Severity as a Result of Driving Actions

Simple Index to Assess the Calibration Quality of Safety Performance Functions Based on Multiple Goodness-of-Fit Metrics

Driving Maneuvers Detection using Semi-Supervised Long Short-Term Memory and Smartphone Sensors

Topic Models from Crash Narrative Reports of Motorcycle Crash Causation Study

Examining Freeway Bottleneck Features During a Mass Evacuation

Review of Post-Fire Inspection Procedures for Concrete Tunnels

Systematic Safety Evaluation of Diverging Diamond Interchanges Based on Nationwide Implementation Data

Regional Perspective of Safety Performance Functions and Their Application to Florida Intersections in Suburban Residential and Urban General Context Classification Categories

Measuring Congestion and Reliability Impacts of Safety Projects

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Use of Agency Service Agreements in ADA Paratransit Delivery

Assessing the Bus Bridging Effectiveness on the Operational Resilience of the Subway Service in Toronto

Impacts of Bike Sharing Program on Subway Ridership in New York City

Using GTFS to Calculate Travel Time Savings Potential of Bus Preferential Treatments

Effectiveness of Green Warning Lights with Different Flashing Patterns for Winter Maintenance Operations

Review of Methods for Estimating Construction Work Zone Capacity

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