Modeling vehicle U-turning behavior near intersections: A deep learning approach based on TCN and multi-head attention

W Zeng, Q Lin, B Zhu, C Peng, R Yu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
In U-turn bays near intersections, the conflict between U-turning vehicles and those going
straight-ahead results in traffic accidents since straight-ahead vehicles cannot reliably …

Strategies to mitigate safety and associated problems at gated rail road grade crossing: A structural equation modelling approach

AK Vivek, S Gupta, T Khan, SS Mohapatra - Transport policy, 2024 - Elsevier
It is globally accepted that gates at rail road grade crossings (RRGCs) are more effective at
preventing collisions between road users and trains than other types of traffic control devices …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of parallel U-turns on urban intersection: evidence from Chinese cities

M Shi, X Tian, X Li, B Pan - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
As the number of motor vehicles in China's cities continues to increase, the imbalance
between the capacity that existing urban roads have for construction and the demand for …

Drivers' dilemma at high-speed unsignalized intersections

K Bhatt, N Gore, J Shah… - Transportation research …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
At unsignalized intersections, drivers typically reject smaller gaps and accept larger gaps in
traffic. However, drivers experience a dilemma or confusion over a wide range of gaps, since …

Identification of spatial and temporal dilemma zone at mid-block median openings: a gap acceptance based approach

T Khan, SS Mohapatra - Transportation research record, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A U-turn at a mid-block median opening (MBMO) is a complex maneuver. The U-turning
vehicle has to find a suitable gap between two fast-moving vehicles in the approaching …

Categorization of gaps at mid-block median openings in heterogeneous traffic: adjudging the applicability of support vector machine and occupancy time methods

T Khan, P Dutta, SS Mohapatra - Transportation letters, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Critical gap has been estimated to investigate the gap acceptance characteristics of U-
turning vehicles at mid-block median opening (MBMO) because proper modeling of gap …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy of critical gap estimates

S Rosa, A Kocianova - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The critical gap is an important parameter in capacity models of unsignalized intersections.
Although there are many methods for critical gap estimation, there is currently no approach …

Realistic approach for capacity estimation of U-turns under heterogeneous traffic condition

T Khan, AK Vivek, SS Mohapatra… - Transportation …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The main purpose of the present study is to estimate U-turn capacity at mid-block median
openings (MBMO). Estimation of U-turn capacity requires three key parameters, namely …

[HTML][HTML] Median U-Turn Intersection Critical Parameter Research and Operational Performance Evaluation

C Zhao, X Liu, T Wu, W Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
As one of the unconventional intersection designs, the median U-turn (MUT) intersection
design has been confirmed to have the potential to improve intersection efficiency and …

Estimation of conflicting traffic volume using spatiotemporal factor

T Khan, SS Mohapatra, PP Dey - Proceedings of the Institution …, 2022 - icevirtuallibrary.com
The conflicting traffic volume (CTV) is one of the crucial parameters for the estimation of U-
turn capacity at a mid-block median opening (MBMO). Therefore, in this work, CTVs at …