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JTTs is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in transportation technologies. The goal of this journal is to provide a forum for scientists and academicians worldwide to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and perspectives in diverse areas of transportation technologies, and…
Uttara Roy
Due to the increasing trend of population growth and urbanization, pedestrians form one of the largest single road user groups. However, they are the most neglected group among all road users. Pedestrian safety is now a growing concern in the USA. Identifying…
Mandefro Terefe Abebe
Road safety depends on humans, vehicles, and highway conditions. These factors influence road safety separately or in combination. Despite these facts, the police report indicated that only a single cause of accident ha s been reported for a given accident in…
Sergey I. Ivashov, Alexander B. Tataraidze, Vladimir V. Razevig, Eugenia S. Smirnova
Improving the rail transport security requires development and implementation of neoteric monitoring and control facilities in conditions of increasing speed and intensity of the train movement and high level of terrorist threat. Use of Earth remote sensing (…
P. Sangaradasse, S. Eswari
The change of land use plays a major role in the developmental activity of a developing country. Due to rapid growth of urbanisation and dramatic increasing population, the fertile agricultural land has been converted to built-up area with respect to the dema…
Haosen Zhang
With the development of the economy and the acceleration of urbanization, the number of vehicles in cities is increasing rapidly, which greatly increases the pressure on urban traffic. Solving traffic accidents and problems to keep smooth travel and safe trav…
Jie Gao, Xueping Li
The logistics industry is likened to be the “catalyst” of economic growth. It is one of China’s top ten key revitalization and adjustment industries, and port logistics is the main force to promote regional logistics and regional economic development. This pa…
Bomboma Kalgora, Sidoine Yao Goli, Bomboma Damigou, Hamadou Tahirou Abdoulkarim, Kwame Kwadu Amponsem
The present study measured the relative efficiency of five major commercial ports in West Africa, using three different Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods, the CCR, BCC, and Windows I-C methods over the years 2005-2016. Seven input variables and one outp…
Stephen T. Smith
This article reports results of a survey of railroad tie management conducted by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reflecting 2017 practices. Similar surveys were previously conducted for 2013 and 2008 practices. North American railroads purchase ap…
Soumya Sharma, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)’s Web Based Accident Prediction System (WBAPS) is used by federal, state and local agencies to get a preliminary idea on safety at a rail-highway grade crossing. It is an interactive and user-friendly tool used to mak…
Songtao Li, 1 1, Chengchao Guo
As some deep distresses exist in pavement structures, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflected waves will vary at interfaces and defects. Aimed at detecting the distresses in terms of position, severity and degree, electromagnetic forward simulations based on…
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