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    Vulnerability of transport infrastructure to extreme weather events in small rural catchments

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    Michalis Diakakis / Efthymis Lekkas / Iraklis Stamos et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    work presented herein evaluates the performance of transportation infrastructure during high-intensity storms. This research focuses on small ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Editorial: Special Issue on Climate Adaptation of Infrastructure Networks

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    Lori Tavasszy / L. Andrew Bollinger / Gerard P.J. Dijkema | DOAJ | 2016
    transport motives (people, freight, utilities) and by different components of the system (the physical construction or user behaviour). Ultimately ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Social Costs of Direct and Indirect Land Use by Transport Infrastructure

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    Frank Bruinsma / Mark Mark Koetse / Piet Rietveld et al. | DOAJ | 2002
    acquisition costs of land for infrastructure and the indirect costs of land use caused by transport. The paper gives an overview of the problems ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Distance deterrence, trade barriers and accessibility. An analysis of market potential in the European Union

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    María Henar Salas-Olmedo / Patricia García-Alonso / Javier Gutiérrez | DOAJ | 2016
    European Union. While there are a variety of research studies measuring how borders affect trade, there is little insight into the impact of ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    layered approach to model interconnected infrastructure and its significance for asset management

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    Srirama Bhamidipati / Telli van der Lei / Paulien Herder | DOAJ | 2016
    Physical infrastructures facilitate much of societal and economic wellbeing of countries, regions and urban areas. In our increasingly ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Evaluating infrastructure resilience to extreme weather – the case of the Dutch electricity transmission network

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    L. Andrew Bollinger / Gerard P.J. Dijkema | DOAJ | 2016
    This paper reports the development and results of a model exploring the resilience of the Dutch electricity transmission infrastructure to ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Advances in the Measurement of Transport Impedance in Accessibility Modelling

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    Karst T. Geurs / John Östh | DOAJ | 2016
    Accessibility is a key concept in both transport and urban planning. The key aims of transport policies, not only at the urban level but ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Quantifying energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions of road infrastructure projects: An LCA case study of the Oslo fjord crossing in Norway

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    Reyn O’Born / Helge Brattebø / Ole Magnus Kålas Iversen et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    The road sector consumes large amounts of materials and energy and produces large quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, which can be ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Opportunities and challenges for rail transport of solid wood biofuel

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    Jonas Flodén | DOAJ | 2016
    interest in using multimodal road-rail transport as a cost effective and environmentally friendly way of long-haul transport. A case study is ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Joint Fact-Finding in Practice: Review of a Collaborative Approach to Climate-Ready Infrastructure in Rotterdam

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    Todd Schenk / Ruben A.L. Vogel / Nienke Maas et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    challenges to collaboratively engage in research and arrive at shared sets of facts to inform their decision-making. This paper introduces joint ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    general activity-based methodology for simulating multimodal transportation networks during emergencies

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    Jeroen P.T. van der Gun / Adam J. Pel / Bart van Arem | DOAJ | 2016
    the travel demand and/or reducing the supplied capacity. A transportation model can be used to quantify and understand the impact of the ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Integration of unobserved effects in generalised transport access costs of cycling to railway stations

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    Lissy La Paix Puello / Karst T. Geurs | DOAJ | 2016
    perceived connectivity (including factor such as the evaluation of punctuality and the frequency of the train and quality of bicycle infrastructure ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Inventory theory, mode choice and network structure in freight transport

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    François Combes / Lóránt A. Tavasszy | DOAJ | 2016
    In passenger transport, hub-and-spoke networks allow the transportation of small passenger flows with competitive frequencies, in a way ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Climate change in asset management of infrastructure: A riskbased methodology applied to disruption of traffic on road networks due to the flooding of tunnels

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    Elja Huibregtse / Oswaldo Morales Napoles / Laura Hellebrandt et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    of occurrence and consequences of an event are integrated into the proposed risk-based approach. To model a typical climate-change related ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Multimodal schedule design for synchromodal freight transport systems

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    Behzad Behdani / Yun Fan / Bart Wiegmans et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    synchromodal design of hinterland transport systems. A cornerstone for synchromodality is an integrated view in the design and operation of intermodal ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Analyzing model uncertainty and economies of scale of the Swedish national freight model to changes in transport demand

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    Jonas Westin / Inge Vierth / Gerard de Jong et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    The purpose of the paper is to analyze model uncertainty and economies of scale of the Swedish national freight transport model system ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Editorial: Data-driven innovations in policy-oriented freight transport models and planning methods

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    Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu / Anne Goodchild / David Guerrero | DOAJ | 2016
    Freight transport is a challenging economic sector, as it is essential for the functioning of production and distribution systems but and ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Timetable-based simulation method for choice set generation in large-scale public transport networks

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    Thomas Kjær Rasmussen / Marie Karen Anderson / Otto Anker Nielsen et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    The composition and size of the choice sets are a key for the correct estimation of and prediction by route choice models. While existing ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Innovations in weather services as a crucial building block for climate change adaptation in road transport

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    Karoliina Pilli-Sihvola / Väinö Nurmi / Adriaan Perrels et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    The road transport sector is facing rising uncertainties in planning and operations due to climate change induced changes in weather ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering

    Comparison of perceived and measured accessibility between different age groups and travel modes at Greenwood Station, Perth, Australia

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    Mark Ryan / Ting (Grace) Lin / Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia et al. | DOAJ | 2016
    Although there has been a significant focus on evaluating accessibility to facilities, the differences between age groups and/or mode of ...
    Keywords: Transportation engineering