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Fuel consumption at signalized intersections: Investigating the impact of different signal indication settings
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2023 , Article)
The fuel consumption of vehicles depends on various factors including vehicle design, driving style, traffic management, and road design. Many manufacturers have been developing efficient and smart vehicles, which contributes ...
Driving simulation sickness and the sense of presence: Correlation and contributing factors
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
Driving simulators are useful and effective tools for conducting studies in the field of traffic safety. Simulation sickness (SS) and the sense of presence (SP) are two well-known factors that could affect the results of ...
A novel agent-based framework for evaluating pedestrian safety at unsignalized mid-block crosswalks
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
A critical safety problem in road networks is the conflicts on unsignalized crosswalks. Thus, a proactive approach to assess pedestrian safety performance is required. Simulating the microscopic road user behavior in a ...
Geosynthetic-reinforced soils above voids: Observation and prediction of soil arching
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
The assumption with the biggest impact on the design of geosynthetic-reinforced soils above voids is the presence and degree of soil arching, which affects the predicted applied stress on the geosynthetic. A series of ...
Pure random orthogonal search (PROS): A plain and elegant parameterless algorithm for global optimization
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MDPI AG
, 2021 , Article)
A new, fast, elegant, and simple stochastic optimization search method is proposed, which exhibits surprisingly good performance and robustness considering its simplicity. We name the algorithm pure random orthogonal search ...
Energy harvesting from railway slab-tracks with continuous slabs
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2023 , Article)
This paper contributes to the literature and development of knowledge in the topic of energy harvesting by presenting the modelling and calculations of energy from vibration of railway tracks due to moving trains on ...