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The transportation community has long used two distinct simulator types without any formal integration between them. First, are microscopic Traffic Simulation (S) models, which simulate the movement ...

Your commute to work, to school or to the store may seem like standard everyday events, but for Zong Tian, a professor in the University of Nevada, Reno's civil and environmental engineering ...

Everyone hates traffic. Big cities in particular are plagued by an overabundance of vehicles, turning a simple crosstown ...

Few things are more frustrating than being stuck in stop-and-go traffic on a major highway. Drivers often ask themselves: Did I pick the right lane? Is that lane going faster than mine? Should I move ...

The day after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, UA assistant professor Yi-Chang Chiu’s phone rang. He has since been working around the clock calibrating a computer model to act and ...

More and larger ships are sailing the world's oceans, and more and more industries are claiming and using them. Highly automated and, in some cases, remotely controlled or even autonomous ships will ...

General automobile traffic lights have three colors of `` red, yellow, and blue (green) '', but research by Ali Hajbabaie et al., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Construction and ...

In order to improve the ability of safety risk assessment with high traffic density of ships, safety risks are prone to safety risk assessment in order to improve the safety risk assessment ability of ...