Transportation, Logistics, and Finance: Recent submissions
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Calibration of Smartphone Sensors to Evaluate the Ride Quality of Paved and Unpaved Roads
(2020)Transportation agencies report that millions of crashes are caused by poor road conditions every year, which makes the localization of roadway anomalies extremely important. Common methods of road condition evaluation ... -
Review of Usage of Real-World Connected Vehicle Data
(2020)GPS loggers and cameras aboard connected vehicles can produce vast amounts of data. Analysts can mine such data to decipher patterns in vehicle trajectories and driver–vehicle interactions. Ability to process such large-scale ... -
Model Contrast of Autonomous Vehicle Impacts on Traffic
(2020)The adoption of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) is in its infancy. Therefore, very little is known about their potential impacts on traffic. Meanwhile, researchers and market analysts predict a wide range of ... -
Mining Connected Vehicle Data for Beneficial Patterns in Dubai Taxi Operations
(2018)On-demand shared mobility services such as Uber and micro-transit are steadily penetrating the worldwide market for traditional dispatched taxi services. Hence, taxi companies are seeking ways to compete. This study mined ... -
Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging with Drone Swarms
(2018)The ongoing proliferation and diversification of remote sensing platforms offers greater flexibility to select from a range of hyperspectral imagers as payloads. The emergence of low-cost unmanned aircraft systems (drones) ... -
Strategic Global Logistics Management for Sourcing Road Oil in the U.S.
(2017)The demand for asphalt and road oil heavily leverages local supply because the product is a hot binder of aggregates that form the final mix needed to pave roads. This paper discusses the supply chain characteristics of ... -
Pavement Performance Evaluations Using Connected Vehicles
(2016)The ability of any nation to support economic growth and commerce relies on their capacity to preserve and to sustain the performance of pavement assets. The ever-widening funding gap to maintain pavements challenges the ... -
Enabling Mobile Commerce through Pervasive Communications with Ubiquitous RF Tags
(2003)For many years we’ve heard of the existence of a wonderful new technology called radio frequency identification (RFID) that allows supermarket items to be checked out without human intervention. Advertisements claim ... -
Energy Efficiency of CSMA Protocols for Wireless Packet Switched Networks
(2004)The finite battery power in wireless portable computing devices is a motivating factor for developing energy efficient wireless network technologies. This paper investigates energy efficiency, relating it to throughput and ... -
Introducing a Micro-Wireless Architecture for Business Activity Sensing
(2008)RFID performance deficiencies discovered in recent high profile applications have highlighted the danger of selecting only passive tags for an application because of their lowest cost relative to other types of RFID ... -
Vibration Energy Harvesting for Disaster Asset Monitoring Using Active RFID Tags
(2010)This paper highlights the importance of energy harvesting in high-value asset monitoring applications involving use of active RFID tags. The paper begins by highlighting advantages of active tags including improved range ... -
Rolling-Stock Automatic In-Situ Line Deterioration and Operating Condition Sensing
(2013)Track and equipment failures dominate railroad accident causes. Railroads must visually inspect most tracks in service as often as twice weekly to comply with the Federal Track Safety Standards. They augment visual ... -
A Participatory Sensing Approach to Characterize Ride Quality
(2014)Rough roads increase vehicle operation and road maintenance costs. Consequently, transportation agencies spend a significant portion of their budgets on ride-quality characterization to forecast maintenance needs. The ... -
Hyperspectral Imaging Utility for Transportation Systems
(2015)The global transportation system is massive, open, and dynamic. Existing performance and condition assessments of the complex interacting networks of roadways, bridges, railroads, pipelines, waterways, airways, and ... -
Context Sensitive Solution: A Case Study of Northwest Highway White Rock Lake, Dallas in Texas
(2015)Loop 12 is the first ring around the city of Dallas. The project is a three-quarter mile section of Loop 12 on Northwest Highway. The project section of Northwest Highway is a set of six bridges that cross a 100-year ... -
Hyperspectral Applications in the Global Transportation Infrastructure
(2015)Hyperspectral remote sensing is an emerging field with potential applications in the observation, management, and maintenance of the global transportation infrastructure. This study introduces a general analytical framework ... -
Hyperspectral Range Imaging for Transportation Systems Evaluation
(2016)Transportation agencies expend significant resources to inspect critical infrastructure such as roadways, railways, and pipelines. Regular inspections identify important defects and generate data to forecast maintenance ... -
A Connected Vehicle Approach for Pavement Roughness Evaluation
(2014)Connected vehicles present an opportunity to monitor pavement condition continuously by analyzing data from vehicle-integrated position sensors and accelerometers. The current practice of characterizing and reporting ... -
Campus Parking Supply Impacts on Transportation Mode-Choice
(2014)Parking demand is a significant land-use problem in campus planning. The parking policies of universities and large corporations with facilities located in small urban areas shape the character of their campuses. These ... -
Precision Bounds of Pavement Deterioration Forecasts from Connected Vehicles
(2014)Transportation agencies rely on models to predict when pavements will deteriorate to a condition or ride-index threshold that triggers maintenance actions. The accuracy and precision of such forecasts are directly proportional ...