Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Forecasting the Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Land Use
(2020)The widespread availability of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) will likely affect social change in terms of how people travel. Traditional methods of travel demand and land use modeling require vast amounts of ... -
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 ... -
Attack Risk Modelling for the San Diego Maritime Facilities
(2020)California is the largest economy among states in the US. More than 40% of the nation's containerized cargo flows through the marine ports of California. Cruise ships also call on four of California's largest ports, with ... -
Signal Feature Extraction and Combination to Enhance the Detection and Localization of Railroad Track Irregularities
(2020)Tracks are critical and expensive railroad asset, requiring frequent maintenance. The stress from heavy car axle loads increases the risk of deviations from uniform track geometry. Irregularities in track geometry, such ... -
Railroad Track Condition Monitoring Using Inertial Sensors and Digital Signal Processing: A Review
(2018)Inertial sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes have been widely used since the early 1990s to monitor the condition of transportation assets. Recent improvements in their performance, a reduction in cost, and sensor ... -
Road Profile Reconstruction Using Connected Vehicle Responses and Wavelet Analysis
(2018)Practitioners analyze the elevation profile of a roadway to detect localized defects and to produce the international roughness index. The prevailing method of measuring road profiles uses a specially instrumented vehicle ... -
Signal Filter Cut-off Frequency Determination to Enhance the Accuracy of Rail Track Irregularity Detection and Localization
(2019)A continuous condition monitoring system to detect and localize railroad track irregularities is achievable with inertial sensors onboard revenue service trains. However, the inaccurate geospatial position estimates of GPS ... -
Enhancement of Signals from Connected Vehicles to Detect Roadway and Railway Anomalies
(2019)Frequent network-wide monitoring of the condition of roadways and railways prevent fatalities, injuries, and financial losses. Even so, agencies cannot afford to inspect vast transportation networks using present methods. ... -
Road Roughness Evaluation Using In-Pavement Strain Sensors
(2015)The international roughness index (IRI) is a characterization of road roughness or ride quality that transportation agencies most often report. The prevalent method of acquiring IRI data requires instrumented vehicles and ... -
Accuracy Enhancement of Anomaly Localization with Participatory Sensing Vehicles
(2020)Transportation agencies cannot afford to scale existing methods of roadway and railway condition monitoring to more frequently detect, localize, and fix anomalies throughout networks. Consequently, anomalies such as potholes ... -
Policy Implications of Truck Platooning and Electrification
(2020)Trucks in North America account for more than 23% of the transportation sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. Truck platooning and truck electrification are potential technologies for reducing emissions and operating cost. ... -
A Fuzzy Delphi Analytic Hierarchy Model to Rank Factors Influencing Public Transit Mode Choice: A Case Study
(2020)This study applied a decision-based model with uncertainty to identify factors in mode choice and to rank their influence in attracting riders to available public transit modes in the city of Tehran. The model integrates ... -
Closed Form Models to Assess Railroad Technology Investments
(2020)Class I railroads in North America collectively invested $11.2 billion to comply with a federal mandate to deploy positive train control. This amount dwarfs the potential savings from accidents the technology could prevent. ... -
A Cognitive Framework to Plan for the Future of Transportation
(2020)Automated, connected, electrified, and shared mobility will be cornerstones of the transportation future. Research to quantify the potential benefits and drawbacks of practice, and to identify barriers to adoption is the ... -
Weigh-In-Motion System in Flexible Pavements Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Part A: Concept
(2019)Weight data of vehicles play an important role in traffic planning, weight enforcement, and pavement condition assessment. In this paper, a weigh-in-motion (WIM) system that functions at both low-speeds and high-speeds in ...