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Margarida Coelho

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New Perspectives and Challenges in Traffic and Transportation Engineering Supporting Energy Saving in Smart Cities—A Multidisciplinary Approach to a …

2022

Transportation, like other spheres of human activity, is constantly changing due to economic development. People are constantly improving the ways of moving using various energy sources, expanding infrastructures, and adapting cities to increasing traffic volumes. An efficient, modern, and demand-driven transportation infrastructure is the strength of a growing economy. The development of transportation improves the accessibility of regions and labor markets and reduces the nuisance caused by congestion. All these elements translate into economic benefits, competitiveness, increased productivity of enterprises and regions, as well as social benefits. However, transport consumes enormous ene…

Transportation engineeringControl and OptimizationRenewable Energy Sustainability and the EnvironmentSettore ICAR/04 - Strade Ferrovie Ed AeroportiEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyBuilding and ConstructionElectrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering (miscellaneous)Energy (miscellaneous)Energies
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Assessing the Environmental Performances of Urban Roundabouts Using the VSP Methodology and AIMSUN

2022

In line with globally shared environmental sustainability goals, the shift towards citizen-friendly mobility is changing the way people move through cities and road user behaviour. Building a sustainable road transport requires design knowledge to develop increasingly green road infrastructures and monitoring the environmental impacts from mobile crowdsourced data. In this view, the paper presents an empirically based methodology that integrates the vehicle-specific power (VSP) model and microscopic traffic simulation (AIMSUN) to estimate second-by-second vehicle emissions at urban roundabouts. The distributions of time spent in each VSP mode from instantaneous vehicle trajectory data gathe…

Control and OptimizationRenewable Energy Sustainability and the EnvironmentRoundaboutEnergy Engineering and Power Technologyroundabout; vehicle-specific power; pollutant emission; microsimulation; road infrastructurePollutant emissionVehicle-specific powerroundabout vehicle-specific power pollutant emission microsimulation road infrastructureRoad infrastructureSettore ICAR/04 - Strade Ferrovie Ed AeroportiMicrosimulationElectrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering (miscellaneous)Energy (miscellaneous)
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