UNB Transportation Group
Research Papers

Recent research papers by group members are listed below.
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Highway Safety

• Implications of Stagnant Reporting Thresholds for Motor Vehicle Collisions (2011)
• Are Age-based Licensing Restrictions a Meaningful Way to Enhance Rural Older Driver Safety? The Need for Exposure Considerations in Policy Development.
• Collision Prediction for Two Lane Rural Roads Using IHSDM:
  A Canadian Experience
• Driver Tolerance of Lateral Accelerations on Horizontal Curves
• Quantifying the Benefits of Road Safety Audits, 2008
• Road Safety and Highway Design in Public-Private Partnerships, 2008
   Relating Roadside Collisions to Highway Clear Zone Width, 2007
•  Collision Involvement of Older Commerical Truck Drivers, 2006
•  Motorcycle Collisions in New Brunswick, 2005
•  Impact of Wind Forces on Heavy Truck Stability, 2005
•  Analysis of Ungulate-Vehicle Collisions on Arterial Highways in New Brunswick, 2004
•  Speed Management Strategies for Rural Temporary Work Zones, 2003
•  The Elderly and Airbags - Are New Standards Warranted? 2003
•  Analysis of Vehicle Collisions with Moose and Deer on New Brunswick Arterial Highways, 2003
•  Collision Experience and Mobility Concerns of the Rural Elderly, 2001
•  Benchmarking Canadian, American, and Australian Bus Safety, 2001
•  Collision Performance of Canadian Sport Utility Vehicles, Light Trucks and Mini-vans, 2000
•  Effectiveness of Heavy Truck Conspicuity Treatments under Different Weather Conditions, 1997
•  The Rural Elderly: Driving Patterns and Accident Involvement, 2000
•  Performance of Canadian Light Trucks and Vans in Collisions -Findings From a Level IV Study, 2000
•  Findings From an On-Scene Heavy Truck Collision Study

Highway Maintenance, Planning and Operations

• Can rural older drivers meet their needs without a car? (2011)
• Are rural older drivers subject to low mileage bias? (2011)
• Experiences with GPS travel diaries in rural older driver research (2011)
• Revealed choice of a new generation: travel behaviour of older drivers in rural New Brunswick, Canada (2011)
  

  Transportation alternatives for rural seniors in New Brunswick, Canada: Issues, policy implications and research needs 2008  

• Understanding the Travel Behaviour of the Rural Elderly, 2004

•  Traffic Sign Retroreflectivity and the Canadian Environment, 2004
•  Transport Logistics:  Potential Traffic Related Spin-off Benefits, 2004
•  Dimensions in Elderly Travel Behaviour: A Simplified Activity-Based Model Using Lifestyle Clusters, 2003
•  Performance Evaluation of Modern Roundabouts on South Golden Road, 2002
•  Evaluation of a Series of Roundabouts Implemented on South Golden Road, 2002
•  An Assessment of Data Collection Techniques for Highway Agencies, 2002
•  Regional and Extra-Regional Highway Traffic in Atlantic Canada, A Review and Preliminary Model, 2000

ITS

• Getting The Wheels Rolling on Rural ITS Research, 2009
• Towards a Centre of Expertise and Testbed in Rural and Low-Density
  Intelligent Transportation Applications at UNB  (Final Report), 2009
• Applicability of Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperation to Low- Density
  and Rural Rail Grade Crossing Safety  (VIC Final Report), 2008
• ITS for small and mid-sized cities: the next frontier? September 2008
• The Challenges Facing Highway ITS:  2010 and Beyond, 2003

Marine

• Places of Refuge for Ships In Need of Assistance in Canada: Policy Lessons From Other Maritime Nations
•  Educational Technology:  Enhancing Port Training, 2003
•  Ports:  A Component of Canada's Critical Infrastructure, 2003
•  Public Policy for Ports:  To Be or Not To Be Corporatised or Privatized? 2003
•  Port Privatization:  Commerce and Recreation, 2002
•  Serving Tomorrow's Mega-size Container Ships:  The Canadian Solution, 2001
•  North American Port Reform:  the Canadian and American Experience, 2001

Municipal Planning

•  Twinning in Thailand:  Part 1:  An Effective Municipal Partnership, 2002
•  Twinning in Thailand:  Part 2:  Fredericton and Ubon Ratchathani, 2002

Sustainable Transportation and Transportation Economics

• Studying differences of household weekday and weekend activities

• Development of improved models for imputing missing traffic counts (2009)

• GIS-based travel demand modeling for estimating traffic on low-class roads (2009)
• Bi-level programming for evaluating revenue strategy of railway passenger transport under multimodal market competition (2009)
• Exploring best-fit hazard functions and lifetime regression models for urban weekend activities: A case study (2007)
•  Climate Change and Demand for Freight Transportation in Atlantic Canada, 2004
•  Sustainable Transportation in Canada, 2004
•  Modelling Sustainable Transportation Systems, 2003
•  Modelling Transportation as a Network Industry

Student Papers

• 2009 - Where do rural seniors fit in traditional travel demand modelling practice? (2009 CITE student paper winner)