Calvo, F.; De Oña, J.; De Oña, R.; López-Maldonado, Griselda; Garach, L.(Taylor & Francis, 2014-05-19)
[EN] This paper examines some key aspects of a charging system for promoting railway transport, including charges reflecting a clear relationship with costs (transparency) and charges reflecting the quality of the ...
[EN] Traffic accidents data sets are usually imbalanced, where the number of instances classified under the killed or severe injuries class (minority) is much lower than those classified under the slight injuries class ...
Garach, L.; De Oña, J.; López-Maldonado, Griselda; Baena-Ruiz, Leticia(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] Over decades safety performance functions (SPF) have been developed as a tool for traffic safety in order to estimate the number of crashes in a specific road section. Despite the steady progression of methodological ...
Mujalli, R; Garach, L.; López-Maldonado, Griselda; Al-Rousan, T.(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)
[EN] Pedestrian safety is a major concern throughout the world because pedestrians are considered to be the most vulnerable roadway
users. This paper sought to identify the main factors in pedestrian-vehicle crashes that ...
Data analysis techniques can be applied to discover important relations among features. This is the main objective of the Information Root Node Variation (IRNV) technique, a new method to extract knowledge from data via ...
López-Maldonado, Griselda; De Oña, J.; Garach, L.; Baena-Ruiz, Leticia(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] One of the main objectives of all public administrations is reducing traffic crashes. To this end, Road Safety Inspections (RSI) stand out as a key measure. Signaling roads is one of the foremost tasks of RSI. A road ...
Calvo, F.; De Oña, J.; López-Maldonado, Griselda; Garach, L.; De Oña, R.(Thomas Telford Ltd., 2013)
[EN] A part of track maintenance costs is directly related to train traffic, and therefore they are marginal costs in the short term. Track renewal costs over a longer period of time also increase with traffic, so they ...
[EN] Crashes are events that involve the interaction of different components: road, driver, vehicle and environment. Nevertheless, road is an essential component and improvements on road conditions are directly related to ...