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Open AccessToward energy-efficient urban rail transit with capacity constraints under a public health emergency
Urban rail transit (URT) plays a pivotal role in mitigating urban congestion and emissions, positioning it as a sustainable transportation alternative. Nevertheless, URT’s function in transporting substantial ...
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Oscillation Growth in Mixed Traffic Flow of Human Driven Vehicles and Automated Vehicles: Experimental Study and Simulation
This paper reports an experimental study on oscillation growth in mixed traffic flow of automated vehicles (AVs) and human vehicles (HVs). The leading vehicle moves with constant speed in the experiment. The f...
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Future reductions of China’s transport emissions impacted by changing driving behaviour
This paper examines what individual drivers can contribute to reduce global vehicle emissions in their daily driving. Here we analyse vehicle emissions from the behavioural perspective with the aim of identify...
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Future urban transport management
The incorporation of disruptive innovations into the transportation industry will inevitably cause major upheavals in the transportation sector. However, existing research lacks systematic theories and methodo...
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Coupling analysis of passenger and train flows for a large-scale urban rail transit system
Coupling analysis of passenger and train flows is an important approach in evaluating and optimizing the operation efficiency of large-scale urban rail transit (URT) systems. This study proposes a passenger—tr...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Energy-saving operation approaches for urban rail transit systems
The article “Energy-saving operation approaches for urban rail transit systems”, written by Ziyou GAO, Lixing YANG, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently Springe...
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Special issue: Reliability management of complex system
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Percolation-based health management of complex traffic systems
System health management, which aims to ensure the safe and efficient operation of systems by reducing uncertain risks and cascading failures during their lifetime, is proposed for complex transportation syste...
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Open AccessEnergy-saving operation approaches for urban rail transit systems
With the accelerated urbanization in China, passenger demand has dramatically increased in large cities, and traffic congestion has become serious in recent years. Develo** public urban rail transit systems ...
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Crowded urban traffic: co-evolution among land development, population, roads and vehicle ownership
Crowded urban traffic is one of mankind’s greatest past, present, and future challenges, attracting interests from urban planning, urban geography, urban economics and other related disciplines. Although these...
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An efficient train scheduling algorithm on a single-track railway system
Since scheduling trains on a single-track railway line is an NP-hard problem, this paper proposes an efficient heuristic algorithm based on a train movement simulation method to search for the near-optimal tra...
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Charging Station Planning for Plug-In Electric Vehicles
A novel model for the charging station planning problem of plug-in electric vehicles is proposed in this paper considering the users’ daily travel. With the objective of minimizing the total cost, including th...
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An improved algorithm for solving all d-MPs in multi-state networks
Reliability is a desirable performance indicator of many real-world systems to measure the quality level. One general method for evaluating multi-state reliability is using d-minimal paths (d-MPs). However, being...
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Simulations for train traffic flow on single-track railways with speed limits and slopes
It might be assumed that a train should run as fast as possible to finish its trip on railway section in the shortest time. However, because of the complex operation constraints, such as speed limits, slopes, ...
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Open AccessComparison of traffic reliability index with real traffic data
Existing studies have developed different indices based on various approaches including network connectivity, delay time and flow capacity, estimating the traffic reliability states from different angles. Howe...
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Joint road toll pricing and capacity development in discrete transport network design problem
The paper demonstrates a method to determine road network improvements that also involve the use of a road toll charge, taking the perspective of the government or authority. A general discrete network design ...
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Congested traffic patterns of two-lane lattice hydrodynamic model with on-ramp
This paper attempts to reproduce the empirical phenomena of congested traffic flow with an on-ramp through a microscopic traffic model. First, an improved two-lane lattice hydrodynamic traffic flow model is pr...
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Population-driven Urban Road Evolution Dynamic Model
In this paper, we propose a road evolution model by considering the interaction between population distribution and urban road network. In the model, new roads need to be constructed when new zones are built, ...
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Integrated Co-evolution Model of Land Use and Traffic Network Design
An integrated co-evolution model with the consideration of land use and traffic network design is proposed in this paper. In the suggested model, two kinds of economic agents are considered. On the one hand, t...
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Adaptive coordinated control of multiple high-speed trains with input saturation
This paper investigates the adaptive coordinated control of multiple high-speed trains with input saturation and uncertain parameters. The motion of an ordered set of high-speed trains is modeled by a multi-ag...
