Browsing by Subject "Transportation"

Now showing items 1-13 of 13

    • Article  

      Analysis of traffic flow with mixed manual and semiautomated vehicles 

      Bose, A.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2003)
      The introduction of semiautomated vehicles designed to operate with manually driven vehicles is a realistic near-term objective. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on traffic-flow characteristics and ...
    • Conference Object  

      Combined Variable Speed Limit and Lane Change Control for Truck-Dominant Highway Segment 

      Zhang, Y.; Ioannou, Petros A. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      Traffic demand of trucks is rapidly increasing on highway networks, which harms highway traffic mobility, safety and the environment. Variable speed limit (VSL) control is considered to be able to improve the traffic ...
    • Conference Object  

      Design and simulation of automated container terminal using AGVs 

      Liu, C. I.; Jula, H.; Ioannou, Petros A. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2001)
      Booming in the world trade, scarcity of land for yard expansion in many ports, and deployment of new massive megaships have magnified the need for finding better ways of performing container terminal operations. High-density ...
    • Conference Object  

      Driving Autopilot with Personalization Feature for Improved Safety and Comfort 

      Butakov, V.; Ioannou, Petros A. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      Self-driving cars are gaining momentum despite the number of considerable technical and human factor issues that remain controversial. Human acceptance and trust of an automated vehicle to transport people in traffic ...
    • Article  

      Environmental Impact of Combined Variable Speed Limit and Lane Change Control: A Comparison of MOVES and CMEM Model 

      Zhang, Y.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2016)
      Highway congestion is detrimental to traffic mobility and has negative impact on the environment. Variable speed limit (VSL) control is an approach that aims to reduce the impact of congestion by controlling the speed of ...
    • Conference Object  

      Flow control for a class of transportation systems 

      Panayiotou, Christos G.; Cassandras, C. G. (1998)
    • Conference Object  

      Intelligent vehicle: Closing the loop with the highway 

      Ioannou, Petros A. (2006)
      Vehicle intelligence has been advocated as a potential way of improving safety, driver comfort, traffic flow characteristics and efficiency in general. Despite considerable research efforts in vehicle technologies, vehicles ...
    • Article  

      Multimodal Dynamic Freight Load Balancing 

      Abadi, A.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Dessouky, M. M. (2016)
      The urban traffic network has temporal and spatial characteristics whose changing conditions have often unpredictable effects on the flow of loads that include passengers and freight. As a result, the current traffic network ...
    • Conference Object  

      Planning for effective bus rapid transit systems: A scenario simulation modelling based approach 

      Papageorgiou, George; Maimaris, A.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Aphamis, Thrasos (2012)
      This paper proposes an approach to planing for Bus Rapid Transit Systems via traffic simulation modelling. The approach concentrates on developing a valid traffic network model and consequently evaluating a number of BRT ...
    • Article  

      Traffic Flow Prediction for Road Transportation Networks With Limited Traffic Data 

      Abadi, A.; Rajabioun, T.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2015)
      Obtaining accurate information about current and near-term future traffic flows of all links in a traffic network has a wide range of applications, including traffic forecasting, vehicle navigation devices, vehicle routing, ...
    • Article  

      Traffic Modeling and College-Bus Routing Using Entropy Maximization 

      Christodoulou, Symeon E. (2010)
      A method is presented by which traffic flow estimation between known origins and destinations can be evaluated based on a modified entropy model, and by which bus-routing optimization can be performed. The traffic flow ...
    • Conference Object  

      The use of microscopic traffic simulation model for traffic control systems 

      Chang, H.; Wang, Y.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2007)
      A highway network model is constructed using a microscopic traffic flow simulation model, VISSIM, and is intended to provide an evaluation environment for advanced traffic control systems. Since the microscopic traffic ...
    • Conference Object  

      Using the inter-contact time for planning the communication infrastructure in vehicular networks 

      Silva, C. M.; Guidoni, D. L.; Souza, F. S.; Pitangui, C. G.; Sarubbi, J. A. F. M.; Aquino, A. L. L.; Meira, W.; Nogueira, J. M. S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) demand sophisticated vehicular networks integrating entities from the transportation sector. The ability to plan and manage such networks represents a key challenge for moving ITS ...