Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Fu, Liping"
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Bayesian Nonparametric Dirichlet Process Mixture Modeling in Transportation Safety Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-08)In transportation safety studies, it is often necessary to account for unobserved heterogeneity and multimodality in data. The commonly used standard generalized linear models (e.g., Poisson-gamma models) do not fully ... -
Comparing the Safety and Mobility Benefits of Alternative Winter Road Maintenance Standards
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)In countries like Canada, driving conditions can be significantly deteriorated by adverse winter weather conditions, such as ice and snow storms. To reduce the negative effects caused by inclement winter weather conditions, ... -
Cycling in Toronto: Route Choice Behavior and Implications to Infrastructure Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)This research investigates the route choice behavior of cyclists in the City of Toronto using data collected from a smartphone application deployed to a large number of cyclists in the City. A total 4,556 cyclists registered ... -
Deep Reinforcement Learning Models for Real-Time Traffic Signal Optimization with Big Traffic Data
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-19)One of the most significant changes that the globe has faced in recent years is the changes brought about by the COVID19 pandemic. While this research was started before the pandemic began, the pandemic has exposed the ... -
Design and Analysis of Mobility Permit-based Traffic Management Schemes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-01)High demand for mobility has undeniably been causing numerous negative impacts on the economy, the society and the environment. As a potential solution to address this challenge, a rapid transition is taking place in the ... -
Development and Evaluation of A Framework for Linking Traffic Simulation and Emission Estimation Models
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-07)The need to understand the effect of policy decisions on environmental indicators is strong. The emergence of new technologies brought about by connected vehicle technologies, which are difficult to evaluate in field ... -
Effectiveness of Transit Signal Priority Strategies at Intersections with High Truck Volumes
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-27)This thesis discusses the effectiveness of two Transit Signal Priority (TSP) strategies, Queue Jump Lane combined with Advanced Transit Signal (QJL-TS) and Green Extension (GE), at an isolated intersection during ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cities Working With Ridesourcing Companies
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-07)The process of using an application or web-based platform to hire a person with their personal vehicle to transport someone to their destination is also known as ridesourcing; and this is a new form of transportation ... -
Evaluation of the Performance of Deicing and Anti-icing Using Organic Alternatives for Sustainable Winter Road Maintenance
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-29)Large amounts of salts are applied every winter to highways, streets, parking lots and sidewalks. Despite its effectiveness, the use of salt has increasingly become a public concern because of the detrimental effect it has ... -
Field Evaluation and Performance Analysis of Different Pre-wetting Ratios for Sustainable Salting
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)In countries like Canada road safety and mobility could be compromised to a great extent during winters due to deterioration of road surface conditions (RSC). Adverse winter weather conditions such as ice, frost, and ... -
An Integrated Behavior and Demand-Oriented Methodology for Quality of Service Evaluation of Bicycle Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-13)Cycling is a viable mode of transport, and its mode share is consistently growing in many parts of the globe. However, many existing infrastructures still lack the safety and convenience that cyclists of all levels of ... -
Modelling, Simulation and Control of Signalized Intersections under Adverse Weather Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)Adverse winter weather has always been a cause of traffic congestion and road collisions. To mitigate the negative impacts of winter weather, transportation agencies have been introducing weather responsive traffic management ... -
Nonparametric Methods for Road Safety Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-16)Crash models for predicting long-term crash risk at some specific components of a road network are fundamental to road safety analyses such as network screening and countermeasure studies. These models are often calibrated ... -
Real-Time Vehicle Emission Estimation Using Traffic Data
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)The current state of climate change should be addressed by all sectors that contribute to it. One of the major contributors is the transportation sector, which generates a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in North ... -
Semi-Automated Microscopic Traffic Flow Simulation Development Using Smart City Data
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Microscopic traffic simulation models have been widely used by transportation planners and engineers for conducting various road network planning and traffic engineering tasks. Due to data limitations, traffic simulation ...