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Transition zones are a road section where posted speed drops from higher to lower limits. Due to the sudden changes in posted speed limits and road environment, drivers usually do not adapt to the posted speed limits and underestimate their traveling speed. Previous studies have highlighted that crash rates are usually higher in these sections. This study aims at improving the safety at transition zones by introducing perceptual measures that ...

Introduction: Infrastructure adjusted to cyclists can be used as a tool to reduce cycling crashes and injuries. To increase cycling frequency and safety, a population's cycling exposure to different infrastructure needs to be known. Since cycling behavior of adolescents cannot be compared to adults, the objective of this study is to describe the cycling exposure and the characteristics of routes used by adolescents for bicycle commuting. ...

Keywords: Public bus passenger safety attitude scale Convergent validity Predictive validity Theory of planned behaviour Personal safety attitude Future bus use intentions A B S T R A C T We examined the predictive validity of the public bus passenger safety attitude scale (PBPSAS), a measure of personal safety attitude (PSA), to predict future intention to use public bus/minibus for long-distance trips. Using 510 adults, we tested among other ...

Walking and cycling are promoted to encourage sustainable travel behavior among children and adults. School children during their travel episode to-and-from school are disproportionately exposed to air pollution due to multiple reasons such as proximity to high traffic roads and peak volumes. Regular use of less polluted routes to and from school can bring significant health benefits for school children. This paper presents a route to school ...

Inter-national benchmarking of road safety, with the purpose of achieving continuous improvement by learning lessons from existing best practices, has currently been widely encouraged by most countries as an emerging management tool to improve the level of road safety. However, performing a successful road safety benchmarking practice is by no means easy. Challenges exist from ascertaining the benchmarking framework at the very beginning to ...

Mobile phone use while riding is one of the five most common risky behaviors of motorcycle riders in Vietnam. This study investigated motorcyclist's mobile phone use while riding intention and behavior based on the extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) framework. Based on this framework, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control , habits, and health motivation underlying the rider's mobile phone use while riding intentions and ...

The inflow caused by tourists in peak seasons exerts an uncontrollable pressure on the existing infrastructure. The Ayubia National Park in Pakistanfaces traffic delays and capacity restraints on the connecting roads in peakseason. The study focuses on the formulation of critical strategies by deploying amendments in the transport network. The methodology contains threeparts: 1) a questionnaire was designed to inquire about several variables ...

The development of effective behavioral change strategies that will convince individuals to voluntarily switch to pro-environmental travel behavior is a core research area for transportation and environmental experts. Personalized travel planning (PTP) is considered as an effective approach that encourages individuals to adopt environmental-friendly travel choices. This paper describes the design and implementation of a PTP intervention that was ...

Due to budget constraints public transportation (PT) can no longer be deployed in regions where it attractsinsufficient customers. Novel techniques such as demand-responsive collective transportation (DRT) areevaluated to cut costs. This requires detailed simulations that are able to predict travel demand andinclude trip execution. Simulating facilities acting as feeder services to time-table based PT servicesrequires detailed and accurate ...

In Flanders (Belgium), Mobility impaired people need to travel frequently from their homes to a Day Care Centre (DCC). Currently this is done by subsidised bus services but recently a decision was made to cancel these subsidies. The fare the DCC guests will have to pay for transport by bus is too high for most of them. This paper investigates a solution where voluntary drivers bring as many DCC guests as possible to the DCC by carpooling. These ...