Proceedings of the 11th Young Researchers Seminar - YRS2023

The YRS2023 - 11th Young Researchers Seminar was held from 15 to 17 May 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted and organised by the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil – LNEC (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering). It followed a series of seminars that were organised so far in 2003-Lyon, France; 2005-The Hague, The Netherlands; 2007-Brno, Czech Republic; 2009-Torino, Italy; 2011-Copenhagen, Denmark; 2013-Lyon, France; 2015-Rome, Italy; 2017-Berlin, Germany; 2019-Thessaloniki, Greece; and 2021-Portorož, Slovenia.

This edition offered the opportunity to a network of young transport researchers from Members of ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI, EURNEX, and HUMANIST to gather and interact during the three-day seminar, where young researchers were able to improve their presentation skills in written and oral scientific communication by tutorial means. The tutoring was done by senior researchers who themselves acted in a truly international scientific culture.

The seminar focuses on following research domains:

• Transport economics, policy, and transport behaviour

• Transport sustainability and environment

• Transport safety

• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) & Traffic management

• Transport logistics and freight

• Transport engineering (including road and railway infrastructures)

These proceedings contain the contributions to the YRS2023, from 14 different European countries. From the 34 full paper contributions to the seminar by the Young Researchers, some are made available to the public in these proceedings. Most contributions are contained in the proceedings in form of a full paper or in the form of the respective presentation. Some are contained in the two formats. A unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier) has been assigned to each submitted paper and to each presentation (when available).

Please use the Seminar Programme presented below to navigate to the contributions. All this information is replicated at ECTRI's website, here: https://www.ectri.org/activities/young-researchers-seminar-2023/

Seminar Programme

Day 1 | May 15, 2023 | Monday

08:45 – Reception and registration of participants

09:00 – Opening Ceremony and official welcome | Auditorium

• Eduardo Fortunato, Board of Directors of LNEC

• Sandra Vieira, Chair of the Organising Committee

• Presentation of Supporting Organisations

  • ECTRI - Ana Pereira (ECTRI) [presentation]

  • FERSI - Ingrid van Schagen (SWOV & FERSI)

  • FERHL - Fabienne Anfosso (Uni. Eiffel & FERHL)

  • HUMANIST - Sonja Forward (VTI & HUMANIST)

  • EURNEX - Angelos Bekiaris (CERTH-HIT & EURNEX)

10:00 – Key-note session | Auditorium

• Proposal & Project Management [presentation]
  Thierry Goger | Secretary-General, FEHRL

11:00 – Coffee break

11:30 – Session 1 | Auditorium
Tutor & session moderator: Claude Rospars (Uni. Eiffel) | Evaluators: Jindřich Frič (CDV & ECTRI) and Angelos Bekiaris (CERTH-HIT & EURNEX)

• 8 Identifying psychosocial factors impacting mode choice using structural equation modelling (submitted but not presented) [restricted access to paper]
  Pinky Kumawat | Politecnico di Torino, Italy

• 55 The potential and limitations of “green” practices at sea ports: a comprehensive review [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Konstantia Karagkouni | CERTH & University of Piraeus, Greece

• 26 Railway track support condition assessment — Preliminary validation tests using a multibody simulation software [presentation]
  João Morais, Joaquim Mendes, Eduardo Fortunato and Rui Calçada | LNEC & University of Porto, Portugal

13:00 – Lunch

14:30 – Parallel sessions 2

Room 5 - Session 2A
Tutor & session moderator: Irina Yatskiv (TSI) | Evaluators: Sogol Kharrazi (VTI) and Fabienne Anfosso (Uni. Eiffel & FEHRL)

• 13 Network evacuation modeling and optimization with vehicular cloud computing (submitted but not presented) [restricted access to paper]
  Hassan Idoudi, Mostafa Ameli, Cyril Nguyen Van Phu, Mahdi Zargayouna and Abderrezak Rachedi | University Gustave Eiffel, France

• 20 Enabling physical internet information system – trends and future directions [presentation]
  Shiqi Sun, Cathérine Cassan and Cathy Macharis | VUB, Belgium

• 24 Modeling perception performance in microscopic traffic simulation for mixed traffic with automated and human driving [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Ivan Postigo, Johan Olstam and Clas Rydergren | VTI, Sweden

Room 6 - Session 2B
Tutor & session moderator: Miguel Navarro-Ligero (UPM) | Evaluators: Laurent Carnis (Uni. Eiffel) and Marina Zanne (Uni. Ljubljana)

• 14 Why changing mode of travel and to which alternative? [restricted access to paper][presentation]
  Chloé Thévenet | Université Gustave Eiffel - MODIS, France

• 19 Regional differences in public transport preferences: evidence from Sweden [restricted access to paper][presentation]
  Jessica Göransson | VTI, Sweden

• 18 Analysis of CO2 production: single wagon transport, combined transport, and road transport [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  František Sládek | CDV, Czechia

16:00 – Coffee break

16:30 – Parallel sessions 3

Room 5 - Session 3A
Tutor & session moderator: Laurent Carnis (Uni. Eiffel) | Evaluators: Miguel Navarro-Ligero (UPM) and Sonja Forward (VTI & HUMANIST)

• 6 The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility [presentation]
  Clara Soler, Genís Majoral, Sergi Saurí and Jordi Pons-Prats | CENIT, Spain

• 7 Quantification of external costs from incidents in rail transport [presentation]
  Marek Mrázek | CDV, Czechia

• 9 Forecasting the impact of electric vehicle adoption on CO2 emissions using machine learning and time series methods [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Farzaneh Farhadi, Roberto Palacin and Phil Blythe | Newcastle University, UK

Room 6 - Session 3B
Tutor & session moderator: Sogol Kharrazi (VTI) | Evaluators: Irina Yatskiv (TSI) and Lila Gaitanidou (CERTH & FERSI)

• 12 "I want to move my house close to school so I can cycle" Exploring the wishes and barriers of children's school commutes [restricted access to paper][presentation]
  Sara Tori | VUB-Mobilise, Belgium

• 47 Pedestrians-cyclists shared spaces: analysis of interactions and attitudes [presentation]
  Andreas Nikiforiadis and Socrates Basbas | CERTH, Greece

• 54 State-of-the-art on hyperloop technology [presentation]
  Aleksejs Vesjolijs | TSI, Latvia

18:00 – End of the first day

Day 2 | May 16, 2023 | Tuesday 

09:00 – Session 4 | Auditorium
Tutor & session moderator: João Cardoso (LNEC) | Evaluators: Claude Rospars (Uni. Eiffel) and Angelos Bekiaris (CERTH-HIT & EURNEX)

• 11 Personalization of MAAS solutions: a multivariate data fusion approach [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Francesco Maria Turno | TSI, Latvia

• 37 A Bayesian sea depth model for waterborne public transport planning [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Michael Sederlin and Gunnar Flötteröd | VTI, Sweden

• 51 Conceptual design and evaluation of sensor technology for automatic uncoupling of railroad wagons [presentation]
  Gabriel Stephan Himmelbauer | University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

10:30 – Coffee break

11:00 – Key-note session | Auditorium

• Publishing a research article: selecting a journal, surviving the review [presentation]
  Karst Geurs | Full Professor of Transport Planning, University of Twente, and Editor-in-Chief of European Transport Research Review (ETRR)

12:00 – Lunch 

13:30 – Parallel sessions 5

Room 5 - Session 5A
Tutors & session moderators: Jiří Ambros (CDV) and Ingrid van Schagen (SWOV & FERSI) | Evaluators: João Cardoso (LNEC) and Tobias Panwinkler (BASt)

• 32 Detecting latent relations within in-depth accident data using network graphs [presentation]
  Daniel Sander | BASt, Germany

• 41 The effect of latency, speed and task performed on remotely operated vehicles [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Christian Jernberg, Jesper Sandin, Tom Ziemke, Jan Andersson | VTI, Sweden

• 44 Modular open source automation kit for autonomous driving buses [presentation]
  Alberto Cruz-Ruiz, Sofia Sanchez-Mateo, Alfredo Valle, Felipe Jimenez and Jose Eugenio Naranjo | INSIA-UPM, Spain

• 53 Rail delays and travellers' perception of being delayed [presentation]
  Kacper Rossa | ITS-University of Leeds, UK

Room 6 - Session 5B
Tutor & session moderator: Jan Andersson (VTI) | Evaluators: Peter Lubrich (BASt) and Ivo Dostál (CDV)

• 52 Evaluating the socio-economic aspects of public services in railway passenger transport [presentation]
  Igor Domeny | University of Zilina, Slovakia

• 56 Mobility alternatives for the elderly: an analysis of local incentive schemes in Germany [presentation]
  Tim Podleschny | BASt, Germany

• 34 Differences in drivers’ attitudes and behavior towards ambulances and police vehicles [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Kajsa Emanuelsson Weibull and Martina Odéen | VTI, Sweden

• 35 GOW30 - Introducing new type of road [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Zarina Hettema | SWOV, Netherlands

15:30 – Coffee break

16:00 – Parallel sessions 6

Room 5 - Session 6A
Tutor & session moderator: Ivo Dostál (CDV) | Evaluators: Ingrid van Schagen (SWOV & FERSI) and Sogol Kharrazi (VTI)

• 31 Pooling flows: the solution for a massive modal shift to combined transport? Case study on an European scale [restricted access to paper][presentation]
  Antoine Robichet | University of Gustave Eiffel, France

• 33 Using scenario-building to incorporate disruptive futures into land use and transport planning [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Amor Ariza-Álvarez | TRANSyT-UPM, Spain

• 58 Assessment of the effects of reducing parallel rides in the selected region [presentation]
  Daniel Pribula and Martin Kendra | University of Zilina, Slovakia

Room 6 - Session 6B
Tutor & session moderator: Peter Lubrich (BASt) | Evaluators: Jan Andersson (VTI) and Claude Rospars (Uni. Eiffel)

• 36 Container relocation and retrieval minimizing schedule deviations [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Robert Klar and Vangelis Angelakis | VTI & Linköping University, Sweden

• 39 Identifying lateral track irregularities by on-board monitoring of lateral displacement and use of machine learning algorithms [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Nadia Kaviani, Anders Rønnquist, Gunnstein Thomas Frøseth, Albert Lau, Stefano Ricci and Luca Rizzetto | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

• 21 Machine learning-based modelling for numerical evaluation of the traffic speed deflectometer performance [presentation]
  Abdelgader Abdelmuhsen, Jean-Michel Simonin, Franziska Schmidt and Amine Ihamouten | University of Gustave Eiffel, France

17:30 – End of the second day

18:30 – Social event - walking tour

20:00 – Official YRS2023 dinner

Day 3 | May 17, 2023 | Wednesday

09:00 – Session 7 | Auditorium
Tutor & session moderator: Tobias Panwinkler (BASt) | Evaluators: Jiří Ambros (CDV) and Ingrid van Schagen (SWOV)

• 46 Performance Analysis of Automated Logistics Vehicles and Transit Points: Simulation Case Study in Rome (submitted but not presented) [restricted access to paper]
  Sevket Oguz Kagan Capkin and Kristaq Pepkolaj | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

• 17 Making mobility hubs more inclusive: what are the needs of vulnerable users? [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Lluis Martinez, Jesse Pappers & Imre Keserü | VUB, Belgium

• 40 Effects of environmental fuel taxes on carbon emissions in European countries [restricted access to paper and presentation]
  Welf Lücke | DLR, Germany

10:30 – Coffee break

11:00 – TRA 2024 & TRA VISIONS opportunities [presentation]

• Ana Pereira | Project and Communication Manager, ECTRI

11:30 – Key-note session | Auditorium

• Transport and mobility research in a period of deep change: a personal perspective [presentation]
  José Manuel Viegas | Full Professor Emeritus, University of Lisboa and Chairman at TIS.pt

12:30 – Closing Ceremony | Auditorium

13:00 – End of Seminar