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    Effectiveness of Road Safety Messages on Variable Message Signs
    TAY Richard, DE BARROS Alex
    Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology    2010, 10 (3): 18-23.  
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    Despite being promoted as a means to improve the efficiency and safety of the road network, the focus of most advanced technologies thus far has been on improving mobility rather than safety. For example, variable message signs are often installed for the sole purpose of providing travel advices to drivers even though they can be used to communicate a wide variety of messages. However, once installed, it is simply communication device and could be used for promoting road safety when not used to display traffic related information. This study examines the effects of some anti\|speeding messages on driver attitudes and traffic speed on an inter\|city highway. A questionnaire survey was developed and administered to a sample of nearly 100 drivers. The test site chosen for this quasi\|experiment was Highway 2 between the Cities of Edmonton and Calgary. The study showed that the messages developed have only a relatively small albeit beneficial effect on driver attitudes and on\|road traffic speed.
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    Activity-travel Schedule Planning Based on Competing Risk Hazard Model
    WUWen-jing, LUO Qing-yu, JIA Hong-fei
    Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology    2014, 14 (6): 171-175.  
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    The study of the schedule planning of travelers helps to understand the process of travelers’ decisions. Also it is the premise of enacting and implementing traffic management strategy and policy. A competing risk hazard model, which describes simultaneously the duration of the present activity and the choice of the next activity, is presented. The application of the model extended to the field of traditional hazard models which account for only one delete events. The model is estimated based on the survey data of Jilin City, China. The covariates used in the model represent factors that affect activity scheduling. The estimated model suggesting that there is interrelated and constraint relationship between N and N+1 times activities of travelers, Moreover, the strength of that relations are change significantly with type of activities. The competing risk models used in this paper are a useful tool for describing such differences. These fundamental works is help for enriching and expanding the travel behavior analysis theory and method.

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