Transactions on Transport Sciences, 2022 (vol. 13), issue 2
Editorial
Ralf Risser
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2)
This issue moves from articles related to questions of sustainable transport to the behaviour, and behavioural problems, of car drivers and ends with one paper that discusses the quality of a driver assistance gadget. To start with, Maryam K. Gilak and Alper Cebeci present an Environmental, financial, and accessibility analysis of low-density high-value goods shipment, pointing out that most chemical goods in the EU27 countries were transported via road. They remind of the fact that road transport produces considerably more CO2 than railway transport and that its cost is significantly higher than rail. To mitigate these problems four railroad intermodal...
Environmental, financial, and accessibility analysis of low-density high-value goods shipment
Maryam khooshechin gilak, Alper Cebeci
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2):4-17 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2022.005
In recent decades finished and semi-finished commodities are the most common and fastest-growing cargo categories for transportation in Europe. These commodities usually have low density and are of high value. This paper aims to assess the CO2 emissions, cost, and availability of road, rail, and railroad intermodal transportation used to deliver LDHV goods in a case study involving chemical goods transportation throughout the EU27 countries in 2020. The findings indicated that most chemical goods were transported via road, which emits more CO2 than a railway. Furthermore, road transport cost is significantly higher than rail....
Pedestrians' Crossing Behaviors and Crossing Preferences: A Field Study
Sena Çinar, Şerife Yilmaz, Bahar Öz
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2):18-26 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2022.006
Pedestrians are one of the most vulnerable road user groups in traffic and face many risky situations in traffic, especially when pedestrians cross the street, where a pedestrians-vehicle interaction or conflict is most likely. Different from the previous studies on pedestrian behavior, the current study targeted exploring pedestrian behavior and safety at a specific street in Ankara-Tunali Hilmi Street Turkey employing two different data collection methods. Specifically, the current study aimed to understand the behaviors, perceptions, and crossing preferences of pedestrians in the study area. In addition to the above, it aimed to identify situations...
The Relationship Between Cycling Behaviour, Attitude to Traffic and Attitude to Daily Life of Junior and Senior High School Students
Yoshio Taniguchi, Shunji Taniguchi, Kazunori Shidoji
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2):27-35 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2022.010
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between junior and senior high school students' cycling behavior, attitudes to traffic and attitude to daily life examining the effects of their gender and age on the behaviour, and to explore the underlying psychological determinants. Past studies on automobile driving have reported that the lower the level of a driver' attitude to safety, the higher the frequency of his/her risky behaviour and near-accident or accident involvement experience; that male and young drivers' level of safety behaviour is lower and they tend to exhibit risky behaviour more frequently than other drivers. It...
Evaluation of Vehicle Speed with Impact of Vehicular Driver Behaviour at Horizontal Curves
Siva Matikana, B Raghuram Kadali
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2):36-44 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2022.007
Vehicular driver behaviour is an important factor for vehicular speed and safety at horizontal curves, few studies have attempted to understand this aspect. In this regard, the objective of the present study is to evaluate the vehicular speed characteristics with the effect of driver behaviour at horizontal curves. The study uses real traffic environments where vehicle speed, driver behaviour (lane change or not) and number of vehicles in the opposite lane (approaching vehicles in the opposite lane) data were recorded by video graphic technique. A total of four horizontal curves with different radiuses on two-lane undivided two-way roadways have been...
Sex differences in driving under the influence: What can we conclude from accident data and point system?
Eva Šragová, Kateřina Bucsuházy, Lukáš Kadula, Martin Šípek, Jiří Ambros
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2):45-51 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2022.008
The Czech Republic regularly ranks among the countries with the highest average alcohol consumption in the world, with men consuming about three times more alcohol than women. This is of particular concern in road safety. Approximately 5% of road accidents caused by motor vehicle drivers in the Czech Republic between 2012 and 2020 happened due to drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or other addictive substances (DUI). However, these accidents accounted for almost 11% of all fatalities registered in these accidents, most of which (95%) were caused by male drivers. This paper aimed to (1) analyze the differences in DUI between men and women, (2)...
Blood alcohol concentration, drinking history, and sociodemographic factors predicting alcohol use disorder among "hard core" offenders in Germany
Thomas Wagner, Don DeVol, Bettina Schützhofer, Ilka Rethfeldt
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2):52-62 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2022.009
Driving under the influence of alcohol is one of the greatest dangers to the safety of road users not only in Germany, but across the rest of the world. An essential indicator for both punitive and corrective measures as well as for the prediction of recidivism is the blood alcohol concentration (BAC). This paper examines the relationships between BAC of first-time offenders, former drinking history, traffic related alcohol problem (TRAP), and the outcome of a medical-psychological assessment. The concept of TRAP combines syndromes from Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD) and a non-clinical delinquency category (drink and drive issue without AUD). It is in...
Production of Head-Up Display windshield and its relation with the image quality
Aleš Mareška, Tereza Kordová, Martin Havlík Míka
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2022, 13(2):63-70 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2022.011
Previously, car windshields served as a barrier against the wind or to prevent the driver from flying outside the vehicle in a collision. The windshield is therefore laminated and consists of two glasses and an intermediate layer consisting of the so-called polyvinyl butyral foil. The latest trend in car windshields is to consider the windshield as a display and project key information onto the windshield. Such glasses are called head-up displays. Various information such as car speed or route can be projected. The driver thus constantly maintains contact with the road, which increases driving safety. Head-Up Display quality is key to display information...