Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center: Recent submissions
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Transforming Challenges into Opportunities for Qatar’s Food Industry: Self-Sufficiency, Sustainability, and Global Food Trade Diversification
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)Food trade restrictions pose a serious risk for countries that are heavily reliant on food imports, potentially leading to food crises, inequality, and geopolitical conflicts on a global scale. However, such restrictions ... -
Aberrant driving behaviors as mediators in the relationship between driving anger patterns and crashes among taxi drivers: An investigation in a complex cultural context
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)Objective: Taxis have become an integrated component of Qatar’s urban transportation network due to their convenience, comfort, and flexibility. Qatar has seen an uptick in the demand for professional taxi drivers. Most ... -
Comprehensive Total Cost of Ownership Framework for Alternative Fuel Public Transportation Buses
( SAGE , 2023 , Article)Sustainable fleet management seeks to deliver the best service with a standard of service defined by state regulatory bodies by utilizing and managing large fleets of vehicles in the most efficient, productive, and ... -
Measuring sustainability, resilience and livability performance of European smart cities: A novel fuzzy expert-based multi-criteria decision support model
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Article)Cities of the 21st century are buffeted with challenges, leaving potentially serious consequences on the future of urban living. Smartening development in cities has reinvented hopes of melting down predicaments in the ... -
Human factors and road safety in the 2nd international traffic safety conference
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)This special issue presents selected articles submitted to the 2nd International Traffic Safety Conference 2023, Doha, (Qatar). More than 150 papers were submitted and they were peer-reviewed. Only 16 papers were highly ... -
Assessment of different pedestrian communication strategies for improving driver behavior at marked crosswalks on free channelized right turns
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Introduction: Previous studies have indicated low driver yielding rates to pedestrians in various countries. This study analyzed four different strategies to improve driver yielding rates at marked crosswalks on channelized ... -
Integrated modelling for sustainability assessment and decision making of alternative fuel buses
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)In this paper, a hybrid life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) model integrating multi region input–output analysis with novel multi-criteria decision-making techniques is proposed to assess three different fuel ... -
A mini review on percent time-spent-following (PTSF) as the service measure for two-lane highways
( Komunitas Ilmuwan dan Profesional Muslim Indonesia , 2018 , Article)Percent Time Spent Following (PTSF) is used by the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) as one of the service measures to assess the level-of-service of two-lane highways since the 2000 edition. But, the problem facing to estimate ... -
Innovative countermeasures for red light running prevention at signalized intersections: A driving simulator study
( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)The change interval, which includes the yellow and all-red times, plays a crucial role in the safety and operation of signalized intersections. During this interval, drivers not only need to decide to stop or go but also ... -
Autism-friendly public bus transport: A personal experience–based perspective
( SAGE , 2022 , Article)Community participation and the formation of social networks are crucial for a qualitative life. To this end, transportation plays an essential role. Many autistic people rely on public transportation for their mobility ... -
Improved driver behaviour at bus stops on local roads: Comparison of different treatments
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Every day, millions of students use school bus as a mean of transportation to and from schools. Nevertheless, most of the school bus related crashes occur at or near bus stops. The overtaking of stopped school buses during ... -
Crowd Evacuation through Crossing Configurations: Effect of Crossing Angles and Walking Speeds on Speed Variation and Evacuation Time
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2022 , Article)The design of safe and efficient pedestrian facilities necessitates the knowledge of complex human movements, such as intersecting pedestrian streams, under different conditions. This study aims to experimentally investigate ... -
Application of Unsupervised Machine Learning Classification for the Analysis of Driver Behavior in Work Zones in the State of Qatar
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Work zone areas are commonly known as crash-prone areas. Thus, they usually receive high priority by road operators as drivers and workers have higher chances of being involved in road crashes. The paper aims to investigate ... -
Safer pedestrian crossing facilities on low-speed roads: Comparison of innovative treatments
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Despite the international efforts to improve pedestrian safety in different regions of the world, pedestrian fatalities still account for around one-third of annual road traffic deaths. Residential areas are commonly ... -
A Simulated Annealing for Optimizing Assignment of E-Scooters to Freelance Chargers
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)First- and last-mile trips are becoming increasingly expensive and detrimental to the environment, especially within dense cities. Thus, new micro-mobility transportation modes such as e-scooter sharing systems have been ... -
Queue Discharge at Freeway On-Ramps Using Coordinated Operation of a Ramp Meter and an Upstream Traffic Signal
( Elsevier , 2020 , Conference)Ramp metering is an effective way of maintaining optimum traffic conditions and mitigating congestion on freeways. Several strategies for ramp metering exist in the literature. They are typically based on the freeway traffic ... -
Integrated Multi-Criteria Model for Long-Term Placement of Electric Vehicle Chargers
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , 2022 , Article)Based on the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets, governments all over the world are speeding up the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). However, one of the key challenges in designing the novel EV system is to ... -
Rethinking mobility strategies for mega-sporting events: A global multiregional input-output-based hybrid life cycle sustainability assessment of alternative fuel bus technologies
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Sustainability has been enshrined in the official claims of mega sporting events, and scholarly debates persist on how to achieve environmental stewardship and a prolonged legacy. Revitalizing the public transportation ... -
Study of mild steel sandwich structure energy absorption performance subjected to localized impulsive loading
( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)Extensive research focus had been given to sacrificial sandwich panels to mitigate the effects of blast loads. This is due to their ability to distribute the load and absorb a significant portion of the blast energy. This ... -
Nature-inspired cellular structure design for electric vehicle battery compartment: Application to crashworthiness
( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)This paper discusses the potential of using lightweight nature-inspired cellular structured designs as energy absorbers in crashworthiness applications for electric vehicles (EV). As EVs are becoming popular with their ...
