Advances in Transportation Engineering (eBook)

Select Proceedings of TRACE 2018

Srinivas Pulugurtha, Indrajit Ghosh, Sabyasachi Biswas (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2019
XIV, 142 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-13-7162-2 (ISBN)

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This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018). The book covers cutting-edge methods and applications in the field of traffic control, transportation planning, road maintenance, and highway and pavement engineering. Case studies on traffic safety, pedestrian behavior, and highway maintenance and design are also presented in this book. The contents of this book are useful for researchers and practitioners working in transportation and traffic engineering.

 

Dr. Srinivas S. Pulugurtha is currently working as Professor & Graduate Program Director of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). He also directs the Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center on UNC Charlotte campus. He has experience working in diverse fields of transportation including transportation safety, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), transportation system planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, internet applications, traffic operations, and, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and operations research applications. During his 24-year tenure as a researcher, Dr. Pulugurtha has led and completed 70 sponsored projects as Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator. He has authored/co-authored over 220 publications which include 57 journal papers. Furthermore, he has advised and mentored 13 Ph.D. students, over 50 M.S. students, and several undergraduate students. He was recognized with the UNC Charlotte College of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award in 2010 for his accomplishments as a mentor, adviser and teacher. Dr. Pulugurtha is a registered Civil Engineer in the State of North Carolina.

Dr. Indrajit Ghosh is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He did his M. S. in transportation engineering also from Wayne State University,  and M. E. in highway engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST, Shibpur). He is academically and professionally active in the areas of traffic flow modelling, driver behaviour, road safety audit and accident analysis, traffic data collection and analysis studies. He has published more than 50 technical papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Ghosh received the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Michigan Section Education-Scholarship award in the year 2008. He also received the prestigious Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship for exceptional academic performance from the College of Engineering at Wayne State University for the year 2007-2008.

 Dr. Sabyasachi Biswas is currently working as Assistant Professor & Faculty adviser of Undergraduate student in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur (NIT Jamshedpur), India.  He did his B.E. in Civil Engineering from IIEST Shibpur, and obtained his Masters in Transportation System Engineering from IIT Guwahati in 2012. He completed his Ph.D. (Civil Engineering) from IIT Roorkee in 2017. He has published several technical papers in reputed international and national journals. His research interests include traffic engineering, ITS, traffic planning, traffic modelling, road safety, statistical modelling and analysis. Dr. Biswas has worked as a Project Scientist in DST, Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2015, he was selected for the prestigious IIT Roorkee Heritage Foundation Award for his research contribution. Further, he received 'The IIT Roorkee Alumni fund' to participate in the 96th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board 2017, held in Washington D.C., USA.

 

Inhalt

TRACE 2018 Committees 6
General Chair 6
Organizing Secretaries 6
Academic and Industrial Collaboration Committee 6
Advisory Committee 6
Preface 9
Contents 11
About the Editors 13
Exploring Rural Road Impacts Using Fuzzy Multi-criteria Approach 15
1 Introduction 15
2 Materials and Methods 17
2.1 Study Area and Quality of Neighborhood Attributes 17
2.2 Data Collection 18
2.3 Fuzzy Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation 19
3 Results and Discussion 21
4 Conclusion 24
References 25
Assessment of Accessibility for Mixed Land Use Neighborhoods Through Travel Behavior Pattern 27
1 Introduction 27
2 Introduction of Study Area 28
3 Socioeconomic Background of the Commuters 28
4 Analysis of Accessibility 31
5 Conclusion 33
Assessing Travel Time Reliability of Public Transport in Kolkata: A Case Study 35
1 Introduction 36
2 Literature Review 36
3 Methodology 38
4 Study Area 39
5 Data Collection and Survey 41
6 Results 42
6.1 Travel Time Reliability (RT) and Comparison of Reliabilities of Bus with Metro Railway 42
6.2 Travel Time Reliability Measure According to FHWA 43
6.3 Delay Measurement 44
6.4 Sensitivity Analysis 46
7 Conclusion and Discussion 47
References 47
Estimation of PCU and Saturation Flow at Signalised Intersection 49
1 Introduction 50
2 Methodology 50
2.1 Data Collection and Extraction 51
2.2 Method for Calculation of Passenger Car Unit (PCU) 53
2.3 Estimation of Saturation Flow 53
3 Results and Discussion 54
3.1 Estimation of PCU Factors 54
3.2 Analysis of Saturation Flow for Through Movement 56
4 Conclusion 58
References 59
Travel Behavior of Agartala City, India Using Panel Data 60
1 Introduction 60
2 Study Area Description 61
3 Methodology 64
4 Model Formation and Result 65
5 Conclusion 69
References 69
Effect of Natural Rubber, Carbon Black, and Copper Slag as Construction Materials in Flexible Pavement: A Review 71
1 Introduction 71
2 Natural Rubber 72
2.1 Properties of Natural Rubber 72
2.2 Natural Rubber–Bitumen Mixes 73
3 Carbon Black 73
3.1 Copper Slag as Aggregate 75
4 Conclusion 75
References 75
Finite Element Modelling of Built-Up CFS Channel Columns Under Axial Load 77
1 Introduction 78
2 AISI and AS/NZS Design Guidelines 81
3 Summary of Experimental Tests 81
4 Numerical Study 89
4.1 General 89
4.2 Geometry and Material Properties 90
4.3 Type of Elements and Finite Element Meshing 90
4.4 Modelling of Boundaries and Loading Procedure 90
4.5 Contact Modelling 91
4.6 Geometric Imperfections in FEA Models 91
4.7 FEA Model Validation 92
5 Comparison of FEA Results Against the Design Strengths 94
6 Conclusions 95
References 98
Experimental Investigation into the Behaviour of CFS Built-Up Channels Subjected to Axial Compression 100
1 Introduction 101
2 Current Design Rules as Per AISI and AS/NZS 104
3 Experimental Investigations 104
3.1 Test Specimens 104
3.2 Determination of Material Properties 105
3.3 Labelling 105
3.4 Test Setup and Loading Procedure 106
3.5 Initial Imperfection Measurement 106
3.6 Results from Experimental Tests 106
4 Comparison with Design Standards 112
5 Conclusions 114
References 115
Development of Speed Prediction Model for Mixed Traffic Conditions: Case Study of Urban Streets 117
1 Introduction 117
2 Motivation 119
3 Data Collection and Extraction 119
4 Model Development 122
4.1 Conventional Model 122
4.2 TMS Model 123
5 Conclusions 125
References 126
Safety Assessment at Unsignalized Intersections Using Post-Encroachment Time’s Threshold—A Sustainable Solution for Developing Countries 127
1 Introduction 127
2 Literature Review 129
3 Methodology 130
3.1 Site Selection and Data Collection 131
3.2 Data Extraction 133
4 Results and Discussion 135
4.1 Frequency Distribution of Observed PET 135
4.2 Characteristics of PET 136
4.3 Distributions of Critical Conflicts for Each Through-Moving Vehicle Category with All Right-Turning Traffic 137
4.4 Relationship Between Right-Turn-Related Crashes and Critical Crossing Conflicts 138
5 Conclusions 139
References 140
Effect of Stratification on Underground Opening: A Numerical Approach 142
1 Introduction 142
2 Previous Studies 143
2.1 Geometric Modeling 144
2.2 Constitutive Material Modeling 144
3 Numerical Modeling 145
3.1 Geostatic Step 146
3.2 Excavation 146
3.3 Effect of Stratification 146
4 Results and Discussion 147
4.1 Geostatic Step 147
4.2 Effect of Stratification 148
5 Conclusion 150
References 151

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
• Reihe/Serie: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 142 p. 62 illus., 37 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Schlagworte: pavement design • Road Maintenance • TRACE 2018 • traffic operations • Traffic Safety • Transportation planning
• ISBN-10: 981-13-7162-8 / 9811371628
• ISBN-13: 978-981-13-7162-2 / 9789811371622