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Performance Evaluation of Vehicle Restraint Systems in the Context of Design and Installation
(2021 , Article)
Vehicle Restraint Systems (VRS), a necessary component of the road design, are widely implemented by transport authorities to protect vehicles from severe incidents, mainly colliding to the roadside as well as median ...
Traffic Impact Assessment for the Stadiums Hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar: A Case Study
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Springer
, 2021 , Article)
The State of Qatar has made extensive preparation to successfully host the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup, a tournament that will be held for the first time in the Middle East and the North Africa region. In preparation for ...
Aerial ropeway system - feasibility study in Doha, Qatar
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Canadian Science Publishing
, 2021 , Article)
Aerial ropeway systems, also called gondolas and aerial cable cars, are amongst driverless transportation modes, which are progressively drawing the attention in promoting tourism. Aerial ropeway systems have been operated ...
Aerial ropeway system - feasibility study in Doha, Qatar
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Canadian Science Publishing
, 2021 , Article)
Aerial ropeway systems, also called gondolas and aerial cable cars, are amongst driverless transportation modes, which are progressively drawing attention in promoting tourism. Aerial ropeway systems have been operated in ...
Interactions between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians at unsignalized mid-block crosswalks considering occlusions by opposing vehicles
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Elsevier Ltd.
, 2021 , Article)
Visibility can be identified as one of the critical determinants for the safety performance of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on unsignalized mid-block crosswalks (UMC), which may be significantly influenced by build-up environment ...
An integrated urban-transport smart growth model around metro stations: A case of Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Urban growth strategies are incorporated for land-use planning and transportation to facilitate people's movement towards a mass transit system. This requires transport demand analysis of a particular area so that, if ...
Investigating the impact of a novel active gap metering signalization strategy on driver behavior at highway merging sections
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Elsevier Ltd.
, 2021 , Article)
A safe headway to the lead vehicle is important to reduce conflicts with merging vehicles from highway on-ramps. Previous research has outlined the advantage of gap metering strategies to yield sufficient space to merging ...
Blue collar laborers’ travel pattern recognition: Machine learning classifier approach
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
This paper proposes a pattern recognition model to develop clusters of homogenous activities for blue-collar workers in the State of Qatar. The activity-based data from the travel diary of 1051 blue-collar workers collected ...
Optical pavement treatments and their impact on speed and lateral position at transition zones: A driving simulator study
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Transition zones are a road section where posted speed drops from higher to lower limits. Due to the sudden changes in posted speed limits and road environment, drivers usually do not adapt to the posted speed limits and ...
Concentration of pb, cu, zn and cd in the roadside soil of doha: Effect of traffic volume and season
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HARD
, 2021 , Article)
The concentration of copper (Cu), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn) and cadmium (Cd) in the roadside soil of Doha was evaluated. Three different roads were selected for the study namely, Mesrif street, Salwa road and Cornish street ...