Dols Ruiz, Juan Francisco; Molina Pardo, Jaime; Camacho Torregrosa, Francisco Javier; Marín Morales, Javier; Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María; García García, Alfredo(Elsevier, 2016)
In recent years, the number of road-based studies using driving simulators is growing significantly. This allows evaluating
controlled situations that otherwise would require disproportionate observations in time and/or ...
Dols Ruiz, Juan Francisco; Molina Pardo, Jaime; Camacho Torregrosa, Francisco Javier; Marín Morales, Javier; Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María; García García, Alfredo(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-06-01)
[EN] In recent years, the number of road-based studies using driving simulators is growing significantly. This allows evaluating controlled situations that otherwise would require disproportionate observations in time ...
Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Llorca García, Carlos; Lenorzer, Annique; Casas, Jordi; García García, Alfredo(National Academy of Sciences, 2015)
Passing zones are provided to improve operational efficiency of two-lane highways where
passes can be performed safely. Minimum passing zone lengths of 120 m were established in
MUTCD and Green Book, although some studies ...
Llopis-Castelló, David; C. Alonso-Troyano; Álvarez-Troncoso, Pablo; Marzá-Beltrán, Aida; García García, Alfredo(MDPI AG, 2022-12)
[EN] The European Union is promoting a circular economy in which waste management plays an essential role. Although many studies focusing on the use of recycled materials in the manufacture of asphalt mixtures for roads ...
García García, Alfredo; Pastor-Serrano, Daniel(Blackwell Publishing, 2022-04)
[EN] In the last few years, the importance of trucks on inland cargo transportation
has not stopped increasing. Meanwhile, truck platooning is emerging, along with
automated driving, to reduce costs using new technologies. ...
Camacho Torregrosa, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-03-31)
Road safety is one of the most important problems in our society. It causes hundreds of fatalities every
year worldwide.
A road accident may be caused by several concurrent factors. The most common are human and
infrastructure. ...
García García, Alfredo; Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Romero Rojas, Mario Alfonso(National Academy of Sciences, 2011-09)
Traffic calming has been widely applied to urban areas in recent decades to moderate speed and traffic volume. Because most measures used are physical, a vehicle must modify its path and speed. A benefit of traffic calming ...
Llopis-Castelló, David; Camacho-Torregrosa, Francisco Javier; García García, Alfredo(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] The most important factors for road crash occurrence are infrastructure, vehicle, and human factors. In fact, infrastructure and its interaction with human factor have been thoroughly studied in recent years through ...
Llorca García, Carlos; Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Lenorzer, Annique; Casas, Jordi; García García, Alfredo(Elsevier, 2015-03)
Microsimulation is a useful tool to analyze traffic operation. On two-lane highways, the complexity of passing and the interaction with oncoming traffic requires specific models. This study focused on the development of a ...
Dols Ruiz, Juan Francisco; Molina, Jaime; Camacho-Torregrosa, Francisco Javier; Llopis-Castelló, David; García García, Alfredo(MDPI AG, 2021-02)
[EN] The analysis of road safety is critical in road design. Complying to guidelines is not enough to ensure the highest safety levels, so many of them encourage designers to virtually recreate and test their roads, ...
Camacho Torregrosa, Francisco Javier; Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María; García García, Alfredo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-10-26)
Este objeto permite dibujar el diagrama de curvaturas y el diagrama de peraltes de una curva en "S" para carreteras del Grupo 1 y del Grupo 2. Se puede controlar las longitudes de cada uno de los elementos que la componen, ...
Camacho Torregrosa, Francisco Javier; García García, Alfredo; Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-07-04)
Este objeto permite dibujar el diagrama de curvaturas y el diagrama de peraltes de una curva en ¿C¿ para carreteras de calzada única del Grupo 1 y del Grupo 2. Se pueden controlar las longitudes de cada uno de los elementos ...
García García, Alfredo; Llorca García, Carlos; Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María(Asociación Técnica de Carreteras, 2012)
[EN] Traffic data collection on rural highways or urban areas is a key tool of highway engineering. Data collected by instrumented vehicles allow researchers to observe driver’s behavior. This technique is useful to study ...
Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María; MOLL MONTANER, SARA; López-Maldonado, Griselda; García García, Alfredo(MDPI AG, 2021-12)
[EN] The presence of cyclists on Spanish rural roads is ever increasing and currently frequent, and thus becoming a serious safety concern. In rural environments, the risk of a crash is higher than in rural areas. The main ...
[EN] Drivers overtaking cyclists on rural roads are a safety concern, as drivers need to handle the interaction with the cyclist and possibly an oncoming vehicle. Improving the maneuver¿s outcome requires an understanding ...
MOLL MONTANER, SARA; López-Maldonado, Griselda; Llopis-Castelló, David; Dols Ruiz, Juan Francisco; García García, Alfredo(Elsevier, 2023-05)
[EN] Driving simulator is a useful tool for obtaining data on driver behaviour efficiently and quickly. However, to ensure the reliability of the data gathered by the simulator, it is necessary to check the differences ...
Solarte Vanegas, Norma Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-09-02)
[ES] El uso y reúso de residuos es una de las mayores preocupaciones de la sociedad actual. De hecho, en el mundo se producen más de 6,5 mil millones de toneladas de residuos de construcción y demolición (RCD) cada año, ...
Cycle track design guidelines are rarely based on scientific studies. In the case of off-road two-way cycle tracks, a minimum width must facilitate both passing and meeting maneuvers, being meeting maneuvers the most ...
Valencia Alaix, Víctor Gabriel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-04-11)
[EN] The quality of traffic on two-lane roads is closely linked to the possibility of making the overtaking maneuver that is especially critical in addition to the level of risk posed to do it. Options to facilitate ...
Nobili, Federica; Bella, Francesco; Llopis-Castelló, David; Camacho-Torregrosa, Francisco Javier; García García, Alfredo(Elsevier, 2019)
[EN] The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of horizontal geometric design and vehicle operation on fuel consumption and gas emissions produced by passenger cars. Continuous speed data were collected along 15 ...