A prototype of a computerized accident risk assessment tool for freight transport in Finland has been constructed based on a concept developed in an earlier stage of the study project. The tool is based on a realistic description on the road, rail and waterway networks, and real data on traffic flows and the occurrence of injury accidents on freight transports in Finland. The estimates of accid...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.01.007 0095-4470/ 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Martin). 1 Note that throughout this paper we will refer to any two-way laryngeal contrast as “voicing”, although the phonetic realization of this contrast may vary across languages. 2 The results were not significantly different by ...

Railway is an Eco-Friendly and Popular mode of Transport in most major cities of the World. One of the most widely used and comfortable nodes of transportation system is train. As the railway network is considered to be the safest and easiest network. More than 10 billions of people and 1050 millions of freight travel by train annually. Railway Transport is indispensable in modern day life, bot...

ABSTRACT: Railway is an Eco-Friendly and Popular mode of Transport in most major cities of the World. One of the most widely used and comfortable nodes of transportation system is train. As the railway network is considered to be the safest and easiest network. More than 10 billions of people and 1050 millions of freight travel by train annually. Railway Transport is indispensable in modern day...

This paper investigates the efficiency of urban public transport systems in China by a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. Based on the data from 652 China cities in 2004 and 2006, we find that the efficiency of overall urban public transport system is relatively low but with a sign of improvement from 2004 to 2006. The urban public transport systems in east coast, south coast and middle ...

Optimization of timetable is the need of the day for the rescheduling and routing of trains in real time. Trains are scheduled in parallel with the road transport vehicles to the same destination. As the number of trains is restricted due to single track, customers usually opt for road transport to use frequently. The air pollution increases as the density of vehicles on road transport is incre...

Activity-based models of travel demand have received considerable attention in transportation planning and forecasting over the last few decades. FEATHERS (The Forecasting Evolutionary Activity-Travel of Households and their Environmental Repercussions), developed by the Transportation Research Institute of Hasselt University, Belgium, is a micro-simulation framework developed to facilitate the...