Faculty of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Optimum Stop Spacing for Accessibility
Published 2018-09-13This paper describes the connection between stop spacing and person-weighted acces- sibility for a transit route. Population distribution is assumed to be uniform along the line, but at each station, demand drops with ...Open AccessPreprint -
Pavement condition and crashes
Published 2018-09-13Change in weather state (such as the freeze-thaw cycle) leads to distresses in pave- ment materials. It has been hypothesized that poor pavement quality reduces the ability of roads to drain and reduces the ability of ...Open AccessPreprint -
I only get some satisfaction: Introducing satisfaction into measures of accessibility
Published 2018-09-13Improving accessibility is a goal pursued by many metropolitan regions to address a variety of objectives. Accessibility, or the ease of reaching destinations, is traditionally measured using observed travel time and has ...Open AccessPreprint -
Measures of Speeding from a GPS-based Travel Behavior Survey
Published 2018-09-13Objective: Lacking information about actual driving speed on most roads in the Minneapolis - St. Paul region, we determine car speeds using observations from a GPS-based travel survey. Speed of travel determines the ...Open AccessPreprint -
WALKING AND TALKING: THE EFFECT OF SMARTPHONE USE AND GROUP CONVERSATION ON PEDESTRIAN SPEED
Published 2018-09-13By testing the walking speed of groups of pedestrians and of phone users, followers of groups and of phone users, and of people uninfluenced by phone users and groups, from different sites it could been seen that groups ...Open AccessPreprint