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The congestion charging scheme is regarded as a successful measure to reduce traffic-related problems. However, low general acceptability of the public for implementing such a scheme is a barrier against its success. In this research, an online pre-designed survey was conducted in five capitals (Budapest, Tunis, Amman, Ulaanbaatar, and Damascus) to define the factors that affect congestion charging acceptability the most. The results of relationships between the studied factors like travel behavior and acceptance of the congestion charging scheme show an irregular pattern in each city. It indicates that the identity of each city and its general policy implications determine which factors significantly affect the public acceptability of congestion charging scheme. In Amman and Budapest, most of the predictors have no statistical effect on the schemes’ public acceptability. Consistent with previous researches, on the other hand, the results demonstrate that the schemes’ effectiveness is crucial and affects the acceptability significantly in all cities. At the same time, it shows that the “prior scheme knowledge” factor has a significant direct effect on the acceptability level in three cities (Damascus, Tunis, and Ulaanbaatar).
Mohamad Shatanawi; Fatma Abdelkhalek; Ferenc Mészáros. Urban Congestion Charging Acceptability: An International Comparative Study. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5044 .
AMA StyleMohamad Shatanawi, Fatma Abdelkhalek, Ferenc Mészáros. Urban Congestion Charging Acceptability: An International Comparative Study. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5044.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMohamad Shatanawi; Fatma Abdelkhalek; Ferenc Mészáros. 2020. "Urban Congestion Charging Acceptability: An International Comparative Study." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5044.
Electric mobility is an emerging market around the world. Electric vehicles have remarkable environmental gains compared to conventional vehicles, they contribute to decreasing fossil energy dependence, but they need huge investments in charging infra-structure and their market price is much above regular ones. The conditions for market penetration are generally critical in emerging economies, where the purchasing power is far below that of developed economies. In addition, further technical and regulatory barriers hinder the market uptake and augmentation. This paper aims to discover and analyze the current market conditions of electric vehicles in selected emerging economies and to set up augmentation pathways, based on experiences in developed and in developing countries.
Ferenc Meszaros; Mohamad Shatanawi; Gabriel Ayobami Ogunkunbi. Challenges of the Electric Vehicle Markets in Emerging Economies. Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering 2020, 49, 93 -101.
AMA StyleFerenc Meszaros, Mohamad Shatanawi, Gabriel Ayobami Ogunkunbi. Challenges of the Electric Vehicle Markets in Emerging Economies. Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering. 2020; 49 (1):93-101.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFerenc Meszaros; Mohamad Shatanawi; Gabriel Ayobami Ogunkunbi. 2020. "Challenges of the Electric Vehicle Markets in Emerging Economies." Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering 49, no. 1: 93-101.
Nowadays, the improvement of the emergency vehicles' priority is required to improve their response time. Presently, the emergency vehicles alert the road users using the sirens and lights, which might cause disturbances in the traffic or lead to accidents due to the unpredictability of the road users' behaviors. This paper introduces the priority indicator, which calculates the priority of several emergency vehicles as they approach an intersection and sort them in a way that allows granting priority to each one without causing delays neither for the emergency nor for the normal vehicles. The priority indicator is then introduced in a predictive traffic actuation program (DIRECTOR) that adjusts the signal timing in a dynamic way. Thus, this research aims to create a generalized priority form that simplifies granting the priority for emergency vehicles in a harmonized way in all over the Netherlands, making sure that it takes into consideration the several conditions of the intersection.
Souhir Boudhrioua; Mohamad Shatanawi. Implementation of Absolute Priority in a Predictive Traffic Actuation Schemes. Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering 2019, 49, 182 -188.
AMA StyleSouhir Boudhrioua, Mohamad Shatanawi. Implementation of Absolute Priority in a Predictive Traffic Actuation Schemes. Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering. 2019; 49 (2):182-188.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSouhir Boudhrioua; Mohamad Shatanawi. 2019. "Implementation of Absolute Priority in a Predictive Traffic Actuation Schemes." Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering 49, no. 2: 182-188.
Worldwide, multiple studies have been trying to reduce traffic issues without physically changing the road network, this is when the congestion fees strategy has been considered as a favorable solution for the urban traffic issues. A fundamental condition that needs to be checked before the implementation of the road-pricing scheme is the acceptability of both the political and the public parties. The acceptability is so variable and depends on many features and differs from one individual to another, thus, a survey with a set of variant questions might help to understand the expectations and the worries of the citizens and aim to improve them for better effectiveness of the road-pricing project. This report aims, through analyzing the responses of a distributed survey, to evaluate the acceptability of the citizens of Tunis, Tunisia and Damascus, Syria in order to draw a comparison between the two cities. Moreover, it assesses the degree of acceptability and the variable expectations of the implementation of the congestion fees of the two societies.
Mohamad Shatanawi; Souhir Boudhrioua; Ferenc Mészáros. Comparing Road User Charging Acceptability in the City of Tunis and Damascus. MATEC Web of Conferences 2019, 296, 02002 .
AMA StyleMohamad Shatanawi, Souhir Boudhrioua, Ferenc Mészáros. Comparing Road User Charging Acceptability in the City of Tunis and Damascus. MATEC Web of Conferences. 2019; 296 ():02002.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMohamad Shatanawi; Souhir Boudhrioua; Ferenc Mészáros. 2019. "Comparing Road User Charging Acceptability in the City of Tunis and Damascus." MATEC Web of Conferences 296, no. : 02002.
Mohamad Shatanawi. COMPARING ROAD USER CHARGING ACCEPTABILITY IN THE CITY OF BUDAPEST AND ULAANBAATAR. 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleMohamad Shatanawi. COMPARING ROAD USER CHARGING ACCEPTABILITY IN THE CITY OF BUDAPEST AND ULAANBAATAR. . 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMohamad Shatanawi. 2021. "COMPARING ROAD USER CHARGING ACCEPTABILITY IN THE CITY OF BUDAPEST AND ULAANBAATAR." , no. : 1.