Evaluating Traffic Operation Conditions during Wildfire Evacuation Using Connected Vehicles Data

Evaluating wildfire simulators using historical fire data

High-performance wildfire simulators allow the future location of a wildfire to be rapidly predicted. The accuracy of such simulators needs to be evaluated; this can be achieved by comparing simulated and observed spread for documented historical fires. A key issue relates to the accuracy of data obtained from historical fires, such as the time-varying fire location, fire-ground weather and acc...

Traffic Congestion Detection System through Connected Vehicles and Big Data

This article discusses the simulation and evaluation of a traffic congestion detection system which combines inter-vehicular communications, fixed roadside infrastructure and infrastructure-to-infrastructure connectivity and big data. The system discussed in this article permits drivers to identify traffic congestion and change their routes accordingly, thus reducing the total emissions of CO₂ ...

The Influence of Traffic Conditions on the Operation Disorder of Public Transport Vehicles

Preliminary notes In situations when in the street network there are no separate areas for the movement of public transport vehicles, traffic conditions influence their operation and efficiency. This paper studies the influence of the volume-to-capacity ratio on the disturbance of public transport headway. The research has been conducted on a segment of the roadway network, in the area of Novi ...

Influential Subpaces of Connected Vehicles in Highway Traffic

This work introduces the novel concept of an influential subspace, with focus on its application to highway traffic containing connected vehicles. In this context, an influential subspace of a connected vehicle is defined as the region of a highway where the connected vehicle has the ability to positively influence the macrostate, i.e. the traffic jam, so as to dissipate it within a specified t...

Integrating Traffic Operation with Emission Impact using Dual-loop Data