Measuring the Economic costs of traffic congestion

Jayasooriya, S.A.C.S.; Bandara, Yapa Mahinda

doi:10.1109/mercon.2017.7980471

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“…Congestion increases risks of accidents, which in tur cause injuries or death [22,23] However, the cost of a crash per person is a lot higher than the cost of congestion per person, regardless of the size of urban areas, but the cost of congestion is lower as the size of the metropolitan areas gets smaller. The loss of productivity is another major factor triggered by congestion [24]. More time spent in traffic means less time to get your work done.…”

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Semantic Management of Urban Traffic Congestion

Shakil¹,

Juric

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Urban traffic congestion is a problem which affects the world and is related to the massive urbanization and excessive number of cars on our streets. This causes a variety of problems, from economical/financial and health-related, to environmental warnings caused by high CO2 and NO2 emissions. This paper proposes a novel software engineering solution, which generates a software application aimed at individual drivers on urban roads, in order to help and ease overall congestion. The novelty is twofold. We target individual drivers in order to motivate them to re-think the purpose and goals of each journey they take. Consequently, the proposed software application enables reasoning upon various options an individual driver may have and helps in choosing the best possible solution for an individual. Our software application utilizes reasoning with SWRL enabled OWL ontologies, which can be hosted by any software application we run in our cars, ready to assist in driving, and implemented in Android / iOS environments.

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Semantic Management of Urban Traffic Congestion

Shakil¹,

Juric

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…The opportunity cost (i) consists in a theoretical value and it is related to the alternative use of the time employed by the highway users during the interruption [65] and this value was obtained through the multiplication of EAP (Economically Active Population) hour value by the average hourly traffic of the highway. Initially, it was calculated the value of the hour spent by the Brazilians, through the division of the GDP per capita of the occupied EAP [61], by the annual worked hours, considering 253 working days in the year and 8 daily work hours.…”

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Methodologies of Economic Measurement and Vulnerability Assessment for Application in Landslide Risk Analysis in a Highway Domain Strip: A Case Study in the Serra Pelada Region (Brazil)

2019

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Landslides are one of the main causes of death caused by disasters in the world. In this study, methodologies to measure landslide costs and to assess vulnerability are presented, with the objective of applying them to landslide risk analyses. The methodologies were applied in a region of Serra do Mar, which is crossed by a highway. The analyses and mappings were implemented in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Through the application of the methodology that considers both direct and indirect costs in the composition of total cost, it was established how much an m2 of a landslide would cost. The composition of direct costs encompassed the damages related to restoration or construction of the highways, infrastructures, unpaved roads, residential and commercial buildings, vegetal cover and agricultural areas. In indirect costs, the economic losses by victims, highway interdiction, and agricultural area profitability were calculated. In the methodology for vulnerability assessment, bodily injuries, structural damages, and functional disturbances resulted from landslides were analyzed. The risk assessment was performed through the junction of the maps of total cost, vulnerability and susceptibility. The results indicate that indirect costs were predominant in cost composition, corresponding to 87% of total costs, in comparison to 13% of the direct costs, stressing the importance of considering indirect costs in economic measurement studies. As a result, it is possible to conclude that studying landslide consequences as economic parameters supports the increasing need of performing risk quantitative analyses. It is also prudent to add that these studies help decision makers in projects of disaster risk mitigation strategies, by allowing the identification of regions with greater economic impacts in case of landslide occurrence.

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“…Traffic congestion has become a ubiquitous problem worthy of policy attention and citizens alike (Uniyal & Gandhi, 2018;Shahgholian & Gharavian, 2018). The rush hour has become a two or three hour peak period, and congestion recurs mornings, midday, midevening, and on weekends as well (Bandara, 2019). Shabbar et al (2014) argue that unplanned land-use results in traffic congestion.…”

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Urban Land-use and Traffic Congestion: Mapping the Interaction

Kanyepe

Tukuta

Chirisa

2021

JCUA

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The interaction between transport, land-uses and travel patterns produce diverse transportation problems in urban cities with traffic congestion as the most visible manifestation. Traffic congestion is a frequent phenomenon in most cities around the globe. This paper reviews the interaction between land-use traffic congestion through published literature. The objective of this study is to encourage and provide researchers with future research directions in land-use and traffic congestion. For this purpose, a systematic review was performed analysing 45 articles from the year 2010 to 2020 using a descriptive approach. Subsequently, the results of the study show that although the interaction between land-use and traffic congestion has gained currency in developed countries far less is known on this subject in developing parts of the world, though new evidence is steadily accumulating. Consequently, limitations of this work are presented, opportunities are identified for future lines of research. Finally, the conclusion confirms the need for further research addressing the methodological concerns

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Measuring the Economic costs of traffic congestion

Cited by 30 publications

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Semantic Management of Urban Traffic Congestion

Semantic Management of Urban Traffic Congestion

Methodologies of Economic Measurement and Vulnerability Assessment for Application in Landslide Risk Analysis in a Highway Domain Strip: A Case Study in the Serra Pelada Region (Brazil)

Urban Land-use and Traffic Congestion: Mapping the Interaction

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