{"title":"Annual average daily traffic estimation from short traffic counts","authors":"Luo Zongfan, Zhong Ming","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232071","url":null,"abstract":"Highway agencies have gathered traffic data for a wide range of engineering and management purposes since the early days. Traffic summary statistics, such as annual average daily traffic (AADT) and design hourly volume (DHV), estimated from such data are the foundation of decision-makings related to the planning, design, operation and management of highway transportation system. Traditional factoring method is recommended by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Traffic Monitoring Guide (TMG 2001) [4] for estimating AADTs from short-period or sample traffic counts. Several studies in the past have attempted to rationalize duration and schedules of sample traffic counts that are shorter than 24 hours in length. This study focuses on reliability of AADT estimates from 1-day, 2-day, 3-day and 5-day traffic counts. The results of this study reveal that shorter counts (1 or 2-day counts) conducted between Monday and Wednesday) may produce AADT estimates as good as the estimates from longer counts (5-day counts). The analysis and findings of this study on the adequacy of short period traffic counts from the perspective of AADT estimation will help highway agencies rationalize their traffic counting program, especially when they have a tight budget.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127628563","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":"Individual driver safety awareness assessment using simulating experiment data","authors":"Gao Song, Yan Lixin, Qi Yuqian","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232121","url":null,"abstract":"Driver safety awareness level has important influence on traffic safety, in order to extract and analyze the factors and events which have a significant effect on driver safety awareness while driving. This research uses virtual reality technology to design and implement several kinds of typical virtual traffic scenarios for safety consciousness level evaluation, and sets the assessment scenarios of intersection as an example, carries out 80 groups of driving simulation experiments, collects several experimental data including driver status, vehicle status and traffic environment, etc. On this basis, logistic regression model is used to consider the three factors, namely human-vehicle - road, and establish the driving safety awareness level evaluation model under the typical traffic scene. It is found that the driver experience has important influence on its security level of consciousness. The results show that the area under the ROC curve is 0.918, which shows that the established bi-level logistic model in terms of driver safety awareness evaluation and forecast has good adaptability and practicability.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117082987","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":"Reliability model based on stress-strength interference for marine propulsion shafting","authors":"Shuai Chen, C. Yuan, Xin-ping Yan","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232107","url":null,"abstract":"To assess the reliability of marine propulsion shafting, an assessment model is established based on systemlevel stress - strength interference analysis, where the relationship between component failure probability attribute and stress-strength distribution was described. Different from the conventional system reliability estimation method by which system reliability was calculated directly from component reliability under the assumption of independent failure among components, the proposed method was applying stress-strength interference relationship at system-level and calculated system reliability according to load distribution and strength distribution. In the end, an example is given to show this method is usable in practical application.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117244579","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":"A new device to reduce false alarm rate of emergency position indicating radio beacons","authors":"Teng-da Sun, Xue Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232122","url":null,"abstract":"Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs), as an interface - offering services of Cospas-Sarsat worldwide plays an essential role in Search and Rescue mission. Regrettably, EPIRBs have a high rate of false activations which may cause - unnecessary expense of Search and Rescue activities. In this paper, - while analyzing the false alert rate and the cost on it, an approach towards improving the EPIRBs is presented. By using the onboard system and equipment to monitor the EPIRBs signal, the vessel crew can see and control the alarm through a user-friendly LCD display interface. The false alarm rate of EPIRB can be reduced effectively.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115216866","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":"The estimation of passenger car equivalent for highway under oversaturated conditions","authors":"Liao Shuguang, Wang Ke","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232073","url":null,"abstract":"Depending on the characteristics of oversaturated traffic flow, the algorithm based on speed-density model is put forward to estimate the passenger car equivalent (PCE) in this paper. And the consistency of jam density is identified as the equivalent criterion. Utilize PCE to study the influences of various vehicles on oversaturated traffic flow. First of all, this new algorithm is established according to the `I-80' field data provided by NGSIM. Then, the results directly prove the consistency of jam density and show that heavy vehicles have a larger effect on the oversaturated traffic flow than passenger cars. The speed-density algorithm can be used to estimate the PCE under oversaturated conditions and jam density keeps consistent when the road is crowded.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132017915","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":"A bus progression model based on the control of bus dwell time at stops and running speed","authors":"Xiang Yun, W. Baojie, Wang Wei, Wang Hao","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232063","url":null,"abstract":"In order to improve the transportation efficiency of bus arterial, a bus progression model based on the control of bus dwell time at stops and running speed is proposed in this study. Considering the operation status of the bus, the progression operation of bus is achieved by the collection of fundamental data on bus lines, bus operation and intersection signal control scheme, the preset of bus dwell time and the adjustment of the intersection signal control scheme as well as the real-time induction of bus running speed. Together with a case study, it is expounded in this study the implementation steps of this method. This method could be widely used in engineering practice because of its characteristic of easy operation and strong practicability.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131072272","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":"Drivers' right-angle collision avoidance behaviors at non-signalized intersection — A driving simulator based study","authors":"Xiaomeng Li, Xuedong Yan, Y. Zhang, Yun Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232173","url":null,"abstract":"Safety at non-signalized intersections is of significant importance to transportation safety study due to the large number of such intersections in transportation network and the complexity of traffic movements at these locations also leads to large numbers of conflicts. This study designed a collision scenario by using driving simulator to investigate the drivers' behavior performance at non-signalized intersection when encountered with a potential right-angle collision and evaluate the behavior mechanism in the collision avoidance process. Experiment results indicated most drivers decelerated to avoid the collision while others accelerated. The drivers' lane position preference was changed from right to left side of the lane center after the conflict. The drivers' braking response time not only influenced the key variables in the collision avoidance significantly, such as the average deceleration and the position after deceleration, but also had a significant effect on the collision avoidance result, which was indicated by the minimum distance between the simulator and the conflict vehicle. Besides, slight gender difference was found in the experiment. Female drivers had larger lane position change than male drivers in the collision avoidance and they were also closer to the conflict vehicle than male drivers after the collision avoidance.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116932848","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 models of freeway traffic incident delay","authors":"Haozhe Cong, Jun Liu, Mengxue Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232054","url":null,"abstract":"Incident impact on the road traffic directly is to cause congestion and delay. Firstly, certainty queuing model combined with variables of four stage duration prediction was employed to develop the incident certainty delay model. And the stochastic delay real-time prediction model was created combining the random distribution characteristics. With the time information when vehicles entered and exited the toll station, we could get the actual value of incident delay. Comparing with the estimated delay and the actual delay, the test results indicated that the estimated models were reliable and applicable.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125290534","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}
Xiaojian Xu, Xin-ping Yan, C. Sheng, Jiangbin Zhao
{"title":"Evaluation of the wear state for diesel engine based on RIMER with the uncertain information","authors":"Xiaojian Xu, Xin-ping Yan, C. Sheng, Jiangbin Zhao","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232087","url":null,"abstract":"Literature review indicates that a large amount of failures are caused by abnormal wear of the diesel engine components. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the wear state of the diesel engine. A large amount of oil information can be attained based on the ferrography analysis which can be well applied in the evaluation of the wear state for the diesel engine. Considering the uncertainty and vagueness of the information, an evaluation model of the wear state for the diesel engine was constructed based on the belief rule-base inference methodology using the evidential reasoning approach (RIMER), combining the expert experience with experimental data. In this paper, an EQD xx-xx diesel engine was selected as the research object and the oil information acquired from ferrographic analysis was acquired by the 1000h reliability test. To avoid the combinational explosion problem of the belief rule-base, feature selection with the interaction information was conducted to reduce the number of the antecedent attributes initially. By considering the difference of multi-experts experience, an initial BRB model was constructed to evaluate the wear state of the diesel engine. The study demonstrates that the model constructed by RIMER can accurately reflect the wear state of the diesel engine and take full use of uncertain information to improve the accuracy of the wear state evaluation.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114580797","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":"Design of a pulsing scheme for BeiDou pseudolites signals","authors":"Wu Di, Lu Hongyang, Chen Wei, Yang Xi","doi":"10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTIS.2015.7232181","url":null,"abstract":"BeiDou pseudolites (BPLs), ground-based BeiDou-like signals transmitters, are capable of augmenting positioning accuracy, reliability, availability of the BeiDou satellite navigation system. However, implementation of the BPLs lead to another problem - the “near far problem”, where the satellite signals are blocked by the signals from a BPL. One of the promising solutions is to pulse the BPL signals to reduce the interference. Because the existing pulsing schemes, i.e., the RTCM SC-104 and the RTCA SC-159 are designed for the GPS signals, they cannot be simply adopted in the BeiDou system due to the different signal structures. Therefore, a dedicated BPLs signals pulsing scheme is proposed in this paper. Two critical parameters-duty cycle and pulse pattern which characterize a pulsing scheme are analyzed and determined in the proposed scheme. Besides, the transmission power requirement is explained in details. The simulation proves that this scheme meets all identified requirements, making it a viable solution to mitigate the near-far problem.","PeriodicalId":389628,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121824002","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}