Publications
PhD Thesis related with AROUND
- Vasconcelos, A. L. P. (2014). Avaliação do desempenho operacional de rotundas: modelos e aplicações. Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade de Coimbra, 2014;
- Fernandes, Paulo (2016). Integrated modeling platform for safety, energy and emissions at roundabouts corridors, PhD Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, 2016 – Advisor: Margarida Coelho; Co-Advisor: Nagui Rouphail (on-going PhD thesis).
PhD Project Thesis related with AROUND
- Paulo Fernandes (2014). Interpreted modeling for safety and emissions at roundabouts corridors, Projecto de Tese I. PhD programme in Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, 2014 – Advisor: Margarida Coelho; Co-Advisor: Nagui Rouphail, January 2014;
- Paulo Fernandes (2014). Interpreted modeling for safety and emissions at roundabouts corridors, Projecto de Tese II. PhD programme in Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, 2014 – Advisor: Margarida Coelho; Co-Advisor: Nagui Rouphail, June 2014.
Concluded Master thesis related with AROUND
- Bernardo N.M.S. (2015). Avaliação do Desempenho de Segurança Rodoviária de um Corredor de Turbo-Rotunda por recurso a uma Plataforma de Microsimulação, MSc Thesis in Civil Engineering, FCT University of Coimbra, January. Advisor: Ana Bastos;
- Bruno Oliveira (2014). Análise do desempenho de um metro ligeiro na região de Aveiro, Msc Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Advisor: Margarida Coelho;
- Mariano P. C. (2014). Avaliação do Desempenho de um Corredor de Turbo-rotundas – Capacidade e Impactes Ambientais, MSc Thesis in Civil Engineering, FCT University of Coimbra, February. Advisor: Ana Bastos;
- Vasco M. A. A. (2013). Análise Energético-Ambiental de Rotundas, Msc Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Advisor: Margarida Coelho;
- Figueiredo M. F. (2013). Avaliação do Efeito da Variação de Parâmetros de Calibração na Qualidade dos Resultados de Estudos de Simulação de Tráfego, MSc Thesis in Civil Engineering, FCTUC, October. Advisor: Ana Bastos and Alvaro Seco.
Papers in international journals
- Fontes, T., Lemos, A., Fernandes P., Pereira, S. R., Bandeira, J. M., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Emissions impact of road traffic incidents using Advanced Traveller Information Systems in a regional scale, Transportation Research Procedia, Elsevier, Vol. 3, pp. 41-50. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2014.10.089;
- Bandeira, J., Fontes, T., Pereira, S. R., Fernandes, P., Khattak, A. J., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Assessing the Importance of Vehicle Type for the Implementation of Eco-routing Systems, Transportation Research Procedia, Elsevier, Vol. 3, pp. 800-809. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2014.10.063;
- Vasconcelos, L., Neto, L., Seco, A., Silva, A. B (2014). Validation of the Surrogate Safety Assessment Model for Assessment of Intersection Safety, Journal of Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Vol. 2432, pp. 1-9. DOI: 10.3141/2432-01;
- Vasconcelos, L., Silva, A. B., Seco, A. M., Fernandes, P., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Turboroundabouts: Multicriterion Assessment of Intersection Capacity, Safety, and Emissions, Journal of Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Vol. 2402, pp. 28-37. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2402-04;
- Vasconcelos, L., Neto, L., Santos, S., Silva, A., Seco, A. (2014). Calibration of the Gipps car-following model using trajectory data. Transportation Research Procedia, 3 (2014), pp. 952-961, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2014.10.075;
- Figueiredo, M., Seco, A., Bastos Silva, A. (2014). Calibration of microsimulation models – The effect of calibration parameters errors in the models’ performance. Transportation Research Procedia, 3 (2014), pp. 962-971, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2014.10.076;
- Bastos Silva, A., Santos, S., Vasconcelos, L., Seco, A., Silva, J. P. (2014). Driver behavior characterization in roundabout crossings. Transportation Research Procedia, 3 (2014), pp. 80-89, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2014.10.093;
- Vasconcelos, L., Bastos Silva, A., Seco, A. (2014). Capacity of normal and turbo-roundabouts: comparative analysis. 167, Proceedings of the ICE - Transport, pp. 88-99. DOI: 10.1680/tran.12.00003;
- Salamati, K., Coelho, M. C., Fernandes, P., Rouphail, N. M., Frey, H. C., Bandeira, J. M. (2013). Emission Estimation at Multilane Roundabouts: Effect of Movement and Approach Lane. Journal of Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Vol. 2389, pp.12-21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2389-02;
- Bastos Silva, A., Vasconcelos, L., Santos, S. (2013). Moving from Conventional Roundabouts to Turbo-roundabouts. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 111(2014), pp. 137-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.046;
- Vasconcelos, L., Seco, A., Bastos Silva, A. (2013). A comparison of procedures to estimate critical headways at roundabouts. PROMET - Traffic&Transportation 25(1), p. 43-53. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v25i1.1246;
- Vasconcelos, A. L. P., Bastos Silva, A., Seco, A. J. M., and Silva, J. P. (2012). Estimating the Parameters of Cowan’s M3 Headway Distribution for Roundabout Capacity Analyses, The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, Volume VII, No. 4, pp. 261-268. DOI: 10.3846/bjrbe.2012.35;
- Vasconcelos, L., Bastos Silva, A., Seco, A., Rouxinol, G. (2012). Estimation of critical headways at unsignalized intersections - a microscopic approach. Advances in Transportation Studies XXVIII (Special Issue), p. 59-72. DOI: 10.4399/97888548567146.
Books chapter
- Vasconcelos, L., Seco A., Bastos Silva, A. (2014). Hybrid Calibration of Microscopic Simulation Models. In Computer-based Modelling and Optimization in Transportation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, J. F. de Sousa and R. Rossi (eds.), Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Vol. 262, pp 307-320 (ISBN: 978-3-319-04629-7, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04630-3_23.
Publications in Proceedings of International Scientific Conferences
- Fernandes, P., Fontes, T., Pereira, S. R., Coelho, M. C., Rouphail, N. M. (2015). Multi-Criteria assessment of crosswalk location in urban roundabout corridors. 94th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, January 11-15, Washington D.C., U.S.A.;
- Fernandes, P., Fontes, T., Neves, M., Pereira, S. R., Bandeira, J. M., Coelho, M. C., Rouphail, N. M. (2015). Assessment of corridors with different types of intersections: An environmental and traffic performance analysis. 94th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, January 11-15, Washington D.C., U.S.A.;
- Fernandes, P., Pereira, S. R., Bandeira, J. M., Vasconcelos, L., Silva, A. B., Coelho, M. C. (2015). Empirical Assessment of turbo-roundabout operations on traffic and emissions. 94th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, January 11-15, Washington D.C., U.S.A.;
- Pereira, S. R., Fontes, T., Bandeira, J. M., Fernandes, P., Coelho, M. C. (2015). Smartdecision: a route choice app based on eco-friendly criteria. 94th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, January 11-15, Washington D.C., U.S.A.;
- Fontes, T., Lemos, A., Fernandes P., Pereira, S. R., Bandeira, J. M., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Emissions impact of road traffic incidents using Advanced Traveller Information Systems in a regional scale. Presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2014), 2-4 July, Seville, Spain;
- Bandeira J. M., Fontes, T., Pereira, S. R., Fernandes, P., Khattak A. J., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Assessing the importance of the vehicle type in eco-routing systems implementation. Presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2014), 2-4 July, Seville, Spain;
- Vasconcelos, L., Silva, A. B., Seco, A. M., Fernandes, P., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Turbo-Roundabouts: a multi-criteria assessment on intersection capacity, safety and emissions. Presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, 12-16 January, Washington D.C., U.S.A.;
- Bastos Silva, A., Santos, S., Vasconcelos, L., Seco, A., Silva, J. P. (2014). Driver Behavior Characterization in Roundabout Crossings. EWGT2014 – 17th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, Sevilha, Spain, 2nd-4th July;
- Vasconcelos, L., Neto, L., Santos, S., Bastos Silva, A., Seco, A. (2014). Calibration of the Gipps car-following model using trajectory data. EWGT2014 – 17th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, Sevilha, Spain, 2nd-4th July;
- Vasconcelos, L., Neto, L., Seco, A., Bastos Silva, A. (2014). Validation of Surrogate Safety Analysis Module Technique for Assessment of Intersection Safety. TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., USA, 12th-16th January;
- Figueiredo, M., Seco, A., Bastos Silva, A. (2014). Calibration of microsimulation models – The effect of calibration parameters errors in the models’ performance. EWGT2014 – 17th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, Sevilha, Spain, 2nd-4th July;
- Vasconcelos, L., Bastos Silva, A., Seco, A., Abreu, T. (2014). Microscopic calibration of the Gipps car-following model, in: M. Papadrakakis, M.G.K., N.D. Lagaros (Ed.), International Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization (Opt-i), Kos Island, Greece;
- Bandeira, J. M., Pereira, S. R., Fontes, T., Fernandes, P., Khattak, A., Coelho, M. C. (2013). An “Eco-traffic” assignment tool. Presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2013), 4-6 September, Porto, Portugal;
- Salamati, K., Coelho, M. C., Fernandes, P., Rouphail, N. M., Frey, H. C., Bandeira, J. M. (2013). Emission Estimation at Multilane Roundabouts: Effect of Movement and Approach Lane. Presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, 13-17 January, Washington D.C., U.S.A., Washington D.C., U.S.A.;
- Bastos Silva, A., Vasconcelos, L., Santos, S. (2013). Moving from Conventional Roundabouts to Turbo-roundabouts. EWGT2013 – 16th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, Oporto, Portugal, 4th-6th September;
- Vasconcelos, L., Seco A., Bastos Silva A (2013). Hybrid Calibration of Microscopic Simulation Models. EWGT2013 – 16th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, Oporto, Portugal, 4th-6th September;
- Vasconcelos, A. L. P., Seco, A. J. M., Bastos Silva, A. and Abreu, A. (2012). A comparison of roundabout capacity models, 23rd IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Banff, Canada;
- Vasconcelos A. L. P; Seco A. J. M; Bastos Silva, A. M. C. (2012). Estimation Of Critical And Follow-Up Headways Of Portuguese Roundabouts, 91st Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, D.C 22-26 January.
Publications in Proceedings of National Scientific Conferences1.
1. Presented and Publicated
2. Communications
1. Presented and Publicated
- Bastos Silva, A., Santos, S. and Gaspar, M. (2013). Turbo-roundabout use and design, Proc. of the CITTA – 6th Annual Conference on Planning Research, Coimbra, Portugal, May 17th;
- Vasconcelos, A. L. P., Bastos Silva, A. and Seco, A. J. M. (2013). Safety analysis of turbo-roundabouts using the SSAM technique, Proc. of the CITTA – 6th Annual Conference on Planning Research, Coimbra, Portugal, May 17th;
- Bastos Silva, A., Vasconcelos, A. L. P. and Santos, S. M. F. (2013). Das rotundas convencionais às turborotundas, Procedings of the 7º Congresso Rodoviário Português, Lisboa, Portugal, 10-12 April;
- Vasconcelos, A. L. P., Santos, S. M. F., Bastos Silva, A. and Seco, A. J. M. (2013). Novos modelos de estimação de capacidades em rotundas, Procedings of the 7º Congresso Rodoviário Português, Lisboa, Portugal, 2013, 10-12 April.
2. Communications
- Bastos Silva, A. M. C. (2014). O projecto AROUND, Conference “Avaliação Operacional e Ambiental de Rotundas”, Final Seminar of the AROUND FCT Project, Department of Civil Engineering of University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 9th December;
- Vasconcelos, A. L. P. (2014). Avanços no Cálculo de Capacidades em Rotundas, Conference “Avaliação Operacional e Ambiental de Rotundas”, Final Seminar of the AROUND FCT Project, Department of Civil Engineering of University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 9th December;
- Coelho, M. C. (2014). Emissões poluentes em rotundas, Conference “Avaliação Operacional e Ambiental de Rotundas”, Final Seminar of the AROUND FCT Project, Department of Civil Engineering of University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 9th December;
- Seco, A. J. M. (2014). Validação da Técnica SSAM na Avaliação da Segurança em Interseções, Conference “Avaliação Operacional e Ambiental de Rotundas”, Final Seminar of the AROUND FCT Project, Department of Civil Engineering of University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 9th December;
- Vasconcelos, L., Silva, A. B., Seco, A. M., Fernandes, P., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Turbo-Roundabouts: Multicriterion assessment on intersection capacity, safety and emissions. Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of Transportation Group Studies (GET), 6-7 January, Covilhã, Portugal;
- Vasconcelos, L., Seco, A., Bastos Silva, A. (2014). Validation of the SSAM technique for the assessment of intersections safety. Poster presentation at the 11th Annual Meeting of Transportation Group Studies (GET), 6-7 January, Covilhã, Portugal;
- Vasconcelos, L., Neto, L., Seco, A., Bastos Silva, A. (2014). Comparison of Procedures To Estimate Critical Headways At Roundabouts. Poster presentation at the 11th Annual Meeting of Transportation Group Studies (GET), 6-7 January, Covilhã, Portugal;
- Fernandes, P., Salamati, K., Bandeira, J. M., Rouphail, N. M., Frey, H. C., Coelho, M. C., Silva, A. B. (2013). Emission Estimation at Multilane Roundabouts in Corridors. Presented at 10th Annual Meeting of Transportation Group Studies (GET), 3-4 January, Alcobaça, Portugal.
Posters and other oral presentations
- Luís Vasconcelos, Álvaro Seco and Ana Bastos (2014). Estimation of critical and follow-up headways at roundabouts”. Presentation of Poster at the 1ªs Jornadas em Sinalização, Segurança Rodoviária e Dano Corporal, University of Coimbra, 6th of November;
- Luís Vasconcelos, Luís Neto, Álvaro Seco and Ana Bastos (2014). Validation of the SSAM technique for the assessment of intersections, Presentation of Poster at the 1as Jornadas em Sinalização, Segurança Rodoviária e Dano Corporal, University of Coimbra, 6th of November;
- Luís Vasconcelos, Ana Bastos Silva, Álvaro Seco, Sílvia Santos, Paulo Fernandes and Margarida Coelho (2014). Turbo-roundabouts: Multi-criteria assessment on intersection capacity, safety and emissions. Presentation of Poster at the 1ªs Jornadas em Sinalização, Segurança Rodoviária e Dano Corporal, University of Coimbra, 6th of November.
- Fernandes, P., Pereira, S. R., Bandeira, J. M., Neto, L., Coelho, Vasconcelos, L., Silva, A. B., Seco, A., Coelho, M. C. (2014). Driving around turbo-roundabouts: are there advantages over conventional roundabouts?. Presentation of Poster at the Research Day 2014, University of Aveiro, 3rd of June;
- 2014: Invited presentation about the research activities of the “Transportation Technology” group (which included the AROUND project), by Prof. Margarida Coelho at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, January;
- Bastos Silva, A.M.C. (2013). Medidas de Controlo De Sinistralidade em Meio Urbano, with the duration of 0h30. Invited Speaker from Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, 2.º Seminário Engenharia Rodoviária- 20 anos do Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, 8th May;
- Bastos Silva, A. M. C. (2012). Avaliação do desempenho de intersecções por recurso a técnicas de microssimulação, with the duration of 1h30. Invited Speaker from Forum de Auditores em Segurança Rodoviária, 2º Forum de Auditores em Segurança Rodoviária, Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária, Lisboa, 29th November;
- Fernandes, P., Salamati, K., Bandeira, J. M., Santos, D., Rouphail, N. M., Coelho, M. C. (2012). Multilane Roundabouts: Impacts on road traffic and vehicular emissions, Presentation of Poster at the Research Day 2012, University of Aveiro, 13th of June;
- Bastos Silva, A. M. C. (2012). Das rotundas às turbo-rotundas, with the duration of 1h00. Invited speaker from Coimbra City Council. Presentation at the European Mobility Week, Auditório do Parque Verde, Coimbra, 18th September.
Reports
- 1st Annual Report of Activities, May 2013.
- 2nd Annual Report of Activities, May 2014.
- Final Report of Activities, January 2015.
Organization of seminars and conferences
- Organization of a seminar in the course “Energia, Mobilidade e Transportes”, University of Aveiro, 2013, 2014;
- Organization of 6ª Conferência do CITTA (Centro de Investigação do Território, Transportes e Ambiente) “Responsive Transports for Smart Mobility”, 17 de Maio, 2013 – Ana Bastos was a President of organization committee;
- Organization of 1as Jornadas em Segurança Rodoviária, University of Coimbra, 6 of November, 2014. Ana Bastos integrated the Scientific committee and the organization committee;
- Organization of the Final Conference of the AROUND Project “Avaliação Operacional e Ambiental de Rotundas”, University of Coimbra, 9 December of 2014 (all project team organization and participation).