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What did PHOEBE discuss in Munich?! Thrilled to share key takeaways: 🎯 Road Safety KPIs: Ongoing discussion to guarantee progress tracking. 🤝 Cooperation: Strengthening ties with other projects in 2024. 🔄 Data Integration: Discussed remaining obstacles. ➡ All info here: https://lnkd.in/eP3u5jAg #PHOEBEProject #RoadSafety

If you're attending Purdue Road School, don't miss out on an insightful presentation by Egis engineer Adam Clauss on NEXT Beams. Learn about the latest innovations in road infrastructure and how these advancements are shaping the future of transportation. #RoadSchool #Infrastructure #Transportation

I am excited to share our two recently published papers promoting Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach. Thank you to my advisor, Dr. Lavrenz Steven M. Lavrenz, Ph.D., RSP2I, and Anahita Zahertar: co-author of one of the papers, whose contributions have made it unique and improved its value to the best. Lets dive into the latest research on Suburban Type Roadways (STR). The suburban-type roads are unique in characteristics; they have a medium speed limit, medium to higher vehicular traffic, and medium to low pedestrian/cyclist mobility. The design characteristics of this type of roadway tend to predominantly fulfill the driver’s need while compromising some safety aspects of Vulnerable Road Users. The paper “Safety Assessment of Suburban Type Roadways: New Findings Using Heterogeneity Models,” published in Transportation Research Record: A Journal of Transportation Research Board, provides context-based discussion on safety challenges at such STR. https://lnkd.in/gDsszFJr To further explore the traffic crash characteristics at STR, the paper “Heterogeneity in crash data: a cross-comparison between ordered probability model and its variant using crashes at suburban type arterial,” published in Accident Analysis & Prevention, takes a deep dive into the heterogeneous nature of crash data at STR. This work focuses more on exploring innovative statistical modeling techniques of transportation data and directs practitioners toward finding better solutions to safety challenges that resemble STR. https://lnkd.in/gaWFtTKy Every sentence in these papers reflects meticulous research work conducted, rigorous guidance, and the strenuous efforts made by all authors to write them. These are works I would always love to boast as I talk about my research experience. #visionZero #SafeSystemApproach #TransportationSafety

The microlocations where weigh-in-motion systems are placed are extremely important and can have consequences for the road network as a whole. With our portable bridge WIM systems, we often do short-term WIM measurements on local roads, and our experience shows that by far the most excesively overloaded HGVs drive on these types of roads because the drivers use them to avoid main roads, which are monitored by WIM stations or by the police. The authors of the article "WIM placement on road networks: Optimization models and a proposed deployment process" tackled the subject of how to position WIM systems in order to solve the ''evasion problem'', i.e., prevent the drivers from escaping monitoring. The article also describes a case study from the state of Espírito Santo in Brazil, where four WIM systems were strategically positioned so as to limit the alternative routes for overloaded HGVs as much as possible. The article was written by Lucas Franceschi, Camila Quevedo Sobrosa, Gustavo Otto, Hans van Loo, Wellington Longuini Repette, Amir Mattar Valente. Click below! #ScienceMonday #WIM #traffic

Where is transportation research headed in 2024? 🤔 The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting is a window into the future of our transportation systems. At the 2024 Annual Meeting, we saw four prominent and powerful themes that indicate where our profession is heading next. Dive into the four themes from #TRBAM here:

JTA CEO Nat Ford participated in the "Reinventing the Next Generation" panel at last week's American Public Transportation Association Mobility Conference. Industry experts examined the future of public transportation and the strategic approach that agencies will take going forward.   Learn more about the insights these leaders shared here: https://lnkd.in/dXQJQ5EV   #JTA #Jax #Mobility

Is this the future of public transportation? Looks cool, but do we really need to reinvent everything? I believe there are much simpler ways to upgrade the existing railway system. What do you think? Follow United Tribble for more tech stuff. #technology #innovation

Is this the future of public transportation? Looks cool, but do we really need to reinvent everything? I believe there are much simpler ways to upgrade the existing railway system. What do you think? Follow United Tribble for more tech stuff. #technology #innovation

Chief Technical Officer Steve Hardcastle formed part of the expert group responsible for developing 'A future state for the UK motorway network'. An Intelligent Transport Systems UK report that sets out what a future state could look like for the motorway network, the opportunities that technology can provide and some of the key barriers that need to be overcome. #transport #technology #report #highways #motorways #futurestate #roadnetwork #automation #strategy

For someone as passionate about road safety as myself, receiving a SCI article on the subject during "National Road Safety Week" is fantastic news !! Yes!! We got our first publication of year 2024 within Springer Nature Group's Evolving Systems jounrnal. An interesting component of my doctoral research work, under the guidence of Dr. Jiten Shah is collaborativly publisehd with Dr. Domokos Esztergár-Kiss and Dr.Duleba Szabolcs , titled as "Phase‑wise injury integrated severity modeling of road accidents: a two‑stage hybrid multi‑criteria decision‑making model". https://lnkd.in/dbDCpX3Y Following are some interestting highlights of this research: 📊 An unique methodology to integrate all the injury types to evalaute the road accident severity 🔖Categorizing by severity phases which equips decision-makers with the ability to identify cities/ any geographic area that are most impacted by road accidents 💰 Provides a robust foundation for the allocation of road safety funds and related resources in a precise and effective manner 🌍 Ease of application within any geographic boundaries Checkout following link for the detailed read https://lnkd.in/dbDCpX3Y Ministry of Road Transport & Highways - India Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM) #india #roadsafety #roadaccidents #injuryprevention #researchanddevelopment #policy