Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Part 1 - Roundabouts
  • Statistical analysis and development of crash prediction model for roundabouts on high-speed rural roadways
  • Effect of pedestrian impedance on vehicular capacity at multilane roundabouts with consideration of crossing treatments
  • Examining statewide public perceptions of roundabouts through a web-based survey
  • Empirical estimation of capacity for roundabouts using adjusted gap-acceptance parameters for trucks
  • Optimization of vehicle travel position on roundabouts in snowy cold regions
  • Analytical method for estimating delays to vehicles traversing single-lane roundabouts as a function of vehicle and pedestrian volumes
  • Simulator study of driver responses to pedestrian treatments at multilane roundabouts
  • Delay analysis of single-lane roundabout with a slip lane under varying exit types, experimental balanced traffic volumes, and pedestrians, using microsimulation
  • Part 2 - Emergency evacuation
  • Use of regional transportation planning tool for modeling emergency evacuation: Case study of northern New Jersey
  • Changes in evacuation decisions between Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina
  • Dynamic traffic assignment evaluation of hurricane evacuation strategies for the Houston-Galveston, Texas, region
  • Turning angle effect on emergency egress: Experimental evidence and pedestrian crowd simulation
  • Travel time reliability during evacuation: Impact of heterogeneous driving behavior
  • Comparison of time-dependent sequential logit and nested logit for modeling hurricane evacuation demand
  • Evacuee route choice decisions in a dynamic hurricane evacuation context
  • Bus contraflow lane: Improved contraflow approach in freeway evacuation
  • Modeling risk attitudes in evacuation departure choices.