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Literature Review of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of High-Speed Rail in the World
(2021)
Countries considering high-speed rail (HSR) developments face enormous challenges because of their high deployment cost, environmental obstacles, political opposition, and their potentially adverse effects on society. ...
Effects of smartphone sensor variability in road roughness evaluation
(2021)
Accelerometers embedded in smartphones have become an alternative means of measuring the roughness of roads. However, the differences in their sensitivity and sampling rates between smartphones could produce measurement ...
Railroad Accident Analysis Using Extreme Gradient Boosting
(2021)
Railroads are critical to the economic health of a nation. Unfortunately, railroads lose hundreds of millions of dollars from accidents each year. Trends reveal that derailments consistently account for more than 70% of ...
Budgeting the Adoption of Sensors on Connected Trains
(2021)
Railroads can save millions of dollars by deploying multi-sensor track scanners on connected trains to detect track and roadbed problems that could cause accidents. However, uncertainties about performance and return-on-investment ...
Micromobility Station Placement Optimization for a Rural Setting
(2021)
Micromobility is an evolving form of transportation modality that uses small human- or electric-powered vehicles to move people short distances. Planners expected that bike sharing, the first form of micromobility, would ...
Extending Micromobility Deployments: A Concept and Local Case Study
(Springer, 2021)
Micromobility is a recent phenomenon that refers to the use of small human- or electric-powered vehicles such as scooters and bikes to travel short distances, and sometimes to connect with other modes of transportation ...