Advances in Transportation Engineering (eBook)

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