K. Jadaan, Ethar Al-Braizat, Sajeda Al-Rafayah, H. Gammoh, Yazan Abukahlil
{"title":"Traffic Safety in Developed and Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis","authors":"K. Jadaan, Ethar Al-Braizat, Sajeda Al-Rafayah, H. Gammoh, Yazan Abukahlil","doi":"10.18178/JTLE.6.1.1-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/JTLE.6.1.1-5","url":null,"abstract":"It is now well recognized that road safety is a worldwide public health problem and there is a high public awareness about road traffic injuries, their grave consequences and enormous costs to society. Road safety developments are correlated with socioeconomic factors such as level of motorization and economic growth which differs significantly between developed and developing countries. This paper discusses and compares the magnitude, trends and causes of traffic accidents, accident costs and cost estimation methods, strategies and countermeasures in both developing and developed countries. Traffic safety data for the period 2003-2013 from selected developing countries are analyzed and compared with European countries (EU). The fatality rates per population for the developing countries were found to be substantially higher than those in EU countries. EU strive to make their fatality rates dropping towards their zero vision while those for developing countries may continue to be high unless effective measures are implemented to reduce the magnitude and severity of their accidents. Accident costs were found to be a real economic burden in developing countries estimated at more than 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) much higher compared to developed countries. The results suggest that road safety is more appreciated in developed countries. Although developed countries have a good experience in applying road safety programs, it is more difficult to apply the same safety programs in developing countries. This research also highlights the countries’ experiences in road safety improvements. ","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131379328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IDISRA - Integrated Distributed Intelligent System for Rail Automation: Safety Issues","authors":"A. K. Pal, Debabrata Nath","doi":"10.12720/JTLE.1.2.179-183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JTLE.1.2.179-183","url":null,"abstract":"A novel Integrated multi-layered network and cooperative computation based Distributed Intelligent System for Rail Automation, IDISRA, is proposed for safe, reliable, efficient and automatic train operations. The objectives are, i) distributing the load from a central server located at a signal house to a neighbourhood of nodes to avoid bottleneck, ii) making the signals intelligent having to-and- fro communication, storing and analyzing capability, iii) integrating the communication mediums from rail to optical fiber to wireless sensors to enable multi-layering of the network, and iv) integrating the multi-layered network based on p2p communication and nested addressing system to enable cooperative computation for local and instant decision making. The multi-layered network combines networks like signal network, station network and junction network. This system can monitor and control local incidents through intelligent signals and sensors to detect early and recover from any emergency situations like node failure, track hazards, fog, fire, collision, sabotage and terrorist activities by providing alternative backup solutions. IDISRA is basically a founding block based on which an overall train operations management system including automatic train movement can be developed. The system eliminates most existing external trackside equipments. The current work focuses on the safety related issues of IDISRA. ","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131439952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fernanda D. Weber, A. C. B. Mancuso, L. A. Senna, M. Echeveste
{"title":"Quality Function Deployment in Airport Terminals: The Airport of Porto Alegre Case","authors":"Fernanda D. Weber, A. C. B. Mancuso, L. A. Senna, M. Echeveste","doi":"10.12720/JTLE.1.2.222-227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JTLE.1.2.222-227","url":null,"abstract":"Since years 90, the Brazilian air market suffered major changes, starting with the opening of the market and culminating with increasing competition in the airline market. These factors, coupled with the country’s economic stability, and the ease to credit, generated a significant increase in demand in the last decade. Current infrastructure of airports could not keep up with the growing market, which led to the situation faced daily in Brazilian airports: crowded waiting rooms and constant delays in flights. Within this context, this work aims to evaluate the quality of services within Porto Alegre Airport/Salgado Filho. Quality function Deployment tool (QFD) is used as the main tool for evaluating the levels of quality. The requirements have been identified and prioritized with the application of market research, and subsequently analyzed by the statistical tool Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The result was the construction of a survey instrument to assess airports, statistically valid, and a methodology to weave strategic guidelines for implementation of improvements. ","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131512279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of Road Traffic Accidents in Jordan using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)","authors":"K. Jadaan, Muaath Al-Fayyad, H. Gammoh","doi":"10.12720/JTLE.2.2.92-94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JTLE.2.2.92-94","url":null,"abstract":"Highway related accidents are considered one of the most serious problems in the modern world as traffic accidents cause serious threat to human life worldwide. Jordan, a developing country, has high and growing level of traffic accidents resulting in more than 13000 fatalities between 1989 and 2012 with an average annual cost of over $500 million. Prediction of future traffic accidents is therefore of utmost importance in order to appreciate the magnitude of the problem and speed up the decision making towards its alleviation. In this paper, a traffic accident prediction model was developed using the novel Artificial Neural Network (ANN) simulation with the aim of identifying its suitability for prediction of traffic accidents under Jordanian conditions. The results demonstrated that the estimated traffic accidents, based on sufficient data, are close enough to actual traffic accidents and thus are reliable to predict future traffic accidents in Jordan. ","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133872423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transportation Safety: A Cognitive Study about Use Mobile Phone while Driving in Turkey","authors":"Ilker Erkan, A. Erkan","doi":"10.18178/JTLE.4.2.103-107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/JTLE.4.2.103-107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114611650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Sustainable Disaster Transportation Network on Real-Time","authors":"A. Moghayedi, Helen D. Dillena","doi":"10.18178/JTLE.4.1.36-40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/JTLE.4.1.36-40","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to develop sustainable transportation network on real-time by providing a capability to dynamically route network under disaster situation. To be responsive to the actual disaster conditions, unfolding the real-time in the transportation network both in terms of the evolving traffic patterns and the availability of road infrastructure in the aftermath of disaster identifies the best possible independent evacuation routes from a potential disaster area to different shelters or facilities. The study also provides iteratively a Heuristic Method to define the two independent paths from the disaster area to each obliging shelters for traffic flow allocation in disaster network by considering both the travelling time and the capacity of the transportation network as parameter for network/data analysis. Routes to different shelters cannot present intersection points either in order to allow continuous traffic flow and to reduce potential accidents. Index Term—bottleneck, capacity, disaster, real-time, transportation network, travel time","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117126673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of Stakeholders’ View towards the introduction of ICT in Supply Chain using Analytic Hierarchy Process","authors":"Eftihia G. Nathanail, Michael Gogas, K. Papoutsis","doi":"10.12720/JTLE.2.2.113-119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JTLE.2.2.113-119","url":null,"abstract":"Transportation of goods implies the management of complicated processes that affect many different users. Key stakeholders in freight transportation usually regard shippers, freight forwarders and receivers whereas local communities are also indirectly affected. The involvement of multiple actors leads to challenging decision-making processes due to the participation and involvement of several players with conflicting interests. The objective of this paper is to investigate shippers and receivers point of view on the introduction of ICT in supply chain for enhanced information provision, through Analytic Hierarchy Process method. This Multi-Criteria Analysis method allows clear prioritization of evaluation criteria for each stakeholder group and determines which stakeholder group takes advantage of the potential implementation of this concept. The result of this paper is to identify which quality criteria are more important for each stakeholder and the stakeholder group that takes benefit from this initiative.","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122047286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cost Minimizing Coal Logistics for Power Plants Considering Transportation Constraints","authors":"A. Yucekaya","doi":"10.12720/JTLE.1.2.122-127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JTLE.1.2.122-127","url":null,"abstract":"Fuel coal supply chain is a complex network in which multiple suppliers, coal products, multiple transportation methods with trans-loading option exist. Each supplier offer different prices for the coal contracts and depend on the location of the supplier, the transportation cost varies. The heat content of the coal needs to be evaluated as it is used to estimate the amount of energy that can be gained from the coal. This energy output should be able to meet the electricity demand which is expected from the power plant. In this paper, a linear model is developed to find the set of supplier, coal products, and transportation route that will minimize the purchase and transportation cost of the fuel coal for the power plants and also will meet the electricity demand. The solution methodology is applied in a case study in Midwest USA. It is shown that the model can be used by the power companies to find a desired solution for their coal supply and hence","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129322208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Wirahadikusumah, Sapitri Sapitri, B. Susanti, B. Soemardi
{"title":"Risk Inclusion in the Reserve Price Estimation for Toll Road Concession Award","authors":"R. Wirahadikusumah, Sapitri Sapitri, B. Susanti, B. Soemardi","doi":"10.12720/JTLE.2.1.34-39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JTLE.2.1.34-39","url":null,"abstract":" Abstract—Investors’ risks in toll road concession award are related mainly to land acquisition; toll tariff, and tender process. Although the first of two are dominant risks, this study is focused on the risks associated with tender process. The reserve price, as a comparator for investors, bids has been criticized by investors, as it does not include proper cost of risks. There is a need to develop a more equitable reserve price that considers the risks, both at the project and at the business/corporate level. These risks have been identified based on existing regulations, and rom the point of views of both parties, i.e., the investors and the government were identified through semi-structured interviews. The findings indicated that while investors understand the need to estimate the cost of risks, this cost is not fully included because it is not fairly considered the reserve price. There are twelve significant risks identified including: the risk associated with overloading (poorly imposing the limition of heavy vehicles) and the risk related to route/traffic management (lower traffic volume due to changing routes). In theory, these risks can be mitigated by strict regulation and enforcement. However, lack of policy coordination among different parties within the government have been problematic and aggravating risks to the investors.","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"34 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124976432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Aspects of Air Traffic Expansion","authors":"Doris Novak, S. Steiner, Petar Andraši","doi":"10.12720/jtle.3.1.31-35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/jtle.3.1.31-35","url":null,"abstract":"To expand, aviation must have a reliable, cost effective energy supply, and effectively deal with environmental issues related to energy production, noise, air quality, and climate change. This work describes the challenges arising from the environmental influences of air traffic and presents short-term projections of how the expansion of air traffic will affect global indicators of climate change. The development of air traffic, although it contributes to total greenhouse gases much less than other sources, nevertheless is helping to drive the strong increase in these gases in the atmosphere. This work presents technological solutions to the environmental problems caused by air traffic, primarily by reducing emissions of CO2 and NOx. Emphasis is placed on more efficient fuel consumption during operational segments before and during landing. This work describes collaboration between the Faculty of Traffic Sciences of the University of Zagreb and Croatia Airlines to measure the fuel-saving effects of using the continuous descent approach (CDA). The prospects of implementing CDA in Croatian airspace are discussed.","PeriodicalId":372752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128888226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}