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Criteria-Based Selection of Cycling Infrastructure: Comparative Analysis of European Guidelines †

Gabriella Kosztolányi-Iván Emese Makó Daria Krezub

Publication Name: Engineering Proceedings

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 113

Issue: 1

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Determining suitable cycling infrastructure is essential for transport planners in European countries seeking to improve safety, promote sustainability, and encourage active travel. This paper compares national cycling infrastructure guidelines from Ukraine, Hungary, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Slovakia. The analysis focuses on key aspects such as infrastructure se-lection criteria (traffic volume, speed), threshold values, design flexibility, contextual integration, and safety performance. Although motor traffic volume and speed are regarded as essential parameters in all countries, implementation and thresholds differ significantly. The Dutch CROW manual enforces the strictest separation guidelines, while Ukraine allows mixed traffic even in higher-speed environments. The UK’s LTN 1/20 emphasizes contextual design and quality, while Hungary and Slovakia rely on matrix-based methods. The findings highlight the need for standardization and alignment with global safety norms.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/engproc2025113072

Assessing accessibility barriers at public transport stops for people with disabilities: Study in Hungary

Balázs Horváth László Jóna Faten Salman

Publication Name: European Transport Studies

Publication Date: 2026-12-01

Volume: 3

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Public transport systems play an instrumental role in promoting mobility, independence and the equitable participation of all individuals in daily activities Despite accessibility having become a fundamental component within transport planning, a significant proportion of public transport systems continue to exhibit notable barriers, thus impeding the mobility of individuals with disabilities to a considerable extent. The present study employs a qualitative methodology to evaluate the accessibility of the public transport system in the city of Győr, Hungary. This evaluation is based on field study, photographic documentation, and a user survey, the latter of which was conducted to support the findings derived from the qualitative methods employed. The analysis identifies four main categories of accessibility barriers: pedestrian environment barriers, stop infrastructure barriers, transport-information barriers, and vehicle-boarding barriers. The findings indicate that inadequate pedestrian environments, poorly designed stops, insufficient tactile and auditory guidance, and difficulties in boarding vehicles significantly restrict accessibility for users with disabilities. This paper proposes practical recommendations and solutions that have the potential to enhance accessibility and ensure compliance with accessibility standards.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1016/j.ets.2026.100059

Sustainability of On-Demand Public Transportation from the Customer Perspective

Edit Süle László Buics Márk Szalay

Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Transactions

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 107

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 427-432

Description:

The goal of this article is to examine the sustainability aspects of on-demand public transportation systems. Demand-based transport systems have many benefits, including reducing traffic congestion, thereby reducing air pollution, and offering more sustainable transport alternatives in urban areas. In addition, they can provide complementary systems to existing transit networks and increase overall mobility, as these services can efficiently meet high-level transportation needs. In this adaptive service context, sustainability aspects are also of great importance, both in terms of reducing harmful emissions and energy consumption. There is a great need for process-based approaches in terms of service development and operation. The present research examines the preferences of potential travelers with the help of a questionnaire, aiming to examine what attributes customers would prefer in case of such a service, including time, flexibility, and sustainability, showing what type of service would be the most popular based on the respondents' opinion. 229 answers were collected, showing that respondents value flexibility and the shortening of waiting time and traveling time, but they would also like services that offer more environmentally friendly vehicles, such as electric vans or buses.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3303/CET23107072

Evaluating Stakeholder Opinion on Traffic Engineering Devices to Improve Pedestrian Crossing Safety Around Schools in Small Villages

Emese Makó Kurmangaliyev Zhiger

Publication Name: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 1258 LNNS

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 58-68

Description:

Despite the greater attention and investment in pedestrian safety measures typically allocated to urban areas, rural villages are frequently overlooked in this respect. A school zone typically applied in urban contexts, refers to a road network surrounding a school where younger pedestrians are likely to be present. The research objective was to gain insight into the traffic preferences of key stakeholders, including teachers, pupils, parents, and representatives of the road authority, regarding the safety of pedestrian crossings in the vicinity of small village schools. A survey was conducted at selected primary schools with relatively high traffic volumes and a high risk of pedestrian accidents. The survey evaluated six different types of designated pedestrian crossings equipped with different traffic engineering devices. The results of the Spearman rank correlation analysis indicate a high degree of alignment between the perspectives of parents and school pupils. At the same time, those of road professionals diverge significantly from those of parents. The teachers’ perspectives exhibit moderate alignment with those of school pupils and road professionals, positioning them in a middle ground between these two groups. The findings demonstrate that the traffic engineering measures deemed safe by road users do not always correspond with those preferred by road professionals. A discrepancy between perceived and actual safety is frequently observed. To address this discrepancy, it is crucial to educate pedestrians about the advantages of safety devices that engineers have identified as effective. Concurrently, it would be prudent for those responsible for the management of roadways to give due consideration to the preferences of pedestrians during their planning activities.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81799-1_6

Overall Equipment Effectiveness-Related Assembly Pattern Catalogue based on Machine Learning

János Jósvai Péter Dobra

Publication Name: Manufacturing Technology

Publication Date: 2023-06-01

Volume: 23

Issue: 3

Page Range: 276-283

Description:

Nowadays, a lot of data is generated in production and also in the domain of assembly, from which different patterns can be extracted using machine learning methods with the support of data mining. With the help of the revealed patterns, the assembly operations and processes can be further optimized, thus the profit achieved can be increased. This article attempts to explore the patterns related to the most used Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in manufacturing, the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metric. The patterns and relationships discovered will be sorted into Assembly Pattern Catalogue (APC). Firstly, a literature review demonstrates scientific relevance. Secondly, it examines the circumstances and methods of samples in the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) data source and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. In the third section, the detailed pattern catalogue is defined in the area of assembly. The novelty of the article is that beyond the generalization of patterns, it characterizes the pattern catalogue with mentioning practical industrial examples.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.21062/mft.2023.036

Eurozone inflation in times of crises: an application of cluster analysis

Zsuzsanna Novák Tatay Tibor

Publication Name: Regional Statistics

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 3

Page Range: 579-600

Description:

This study investigates whether homogeneous clusters can be identified among Eurozone countries based on the main HICP (harmonized index of consumer prices) sub-indicators between the first quarter of 2019 and the last quarter of 2023. We use hierarchical cluster analysis to explore how different Eurozone member countries can be grouped according to the different components of the HICP that reflect differences in the main causes of inflation. We point out that the factors discussed in the inflation theory literature that affect different groups of economic agents in different ways can also be interpreted geographically within the Eurozone. Baltic countries tend to follow inflation paths that are different from those of other member states, but outliers also exist among the most advanced economies in the EU. Diverging inflation patterns have much to do with economic convergence, but the dispersion of monthly inflation rates suggests that administrative pricing and policy considerations, particularly energy policy, may be responsible for most of the divergence in inflation and will largely determine the emergence of clusters from 2022 onwards. In light of the results of our study, we conclude that there may be significant differences in the adjustments of individual countries compared to the policy measures that are optimal from the European Central Bank’s perspective.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.15196/RS150308

Comparison of Clustering-Based Virtual SEA Subsystem Generation Models

Dániel Feszty David Sipos

Publication Name: Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics

Publication Date: 2023-09-01

Volume: 31

Issue: 3

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Building a valid Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) model is far from straightforward in real life applications because it has to comply with certain requirements. Since intuition-based SEA subsystems do not always entirely meet these, more advanced methods such as clustering techniques have been proposed for model building. This paper focuses on the comparison of different clustering techniques from SEA model validity point of view in the case of a simplified car body model. Besides the compliance with the SEA theory, each obtained model is compared to a reference finite element simulation to assess its accuracy.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1142/S2591728523500081

From vérszerződés 'blood oath' to vérciki 'bloody awkward': Cultural conceptualization of VÉR 'blood' in Hungarian

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelvor

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Volume: 144

Issue: 1

Page Range: 103-122

Description:

Historical, ethnographic, and theological studies witness the diversified symbolism and decisive cultural role of 'blood'. The paper explores the role of the body fluid concerned in conceptualization, from the point of view of cognitive-cultural linguistics. The aim is to unfold the metaphorical and metonymic domains of Hungarian vér 'blood' and the culture-specific factors of world view (beliefs and events) that determine the role of that body fluid in the cultural cognition of the Hungarian community, on the basis of relevant expressions found in standard handbooks and data of the Hungarian National corpus. such factors include death, kinship, human nature, vitality, emotion, intensity, and malediction. The paper depicts conceptualizations of 'blood' and its profiled features in the individual domains in a network.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.38143/NYR.2020.1.103

Developing water supply system in Szogye

I. Lakatos Nikolett Fecser

Publication Name: Pollack Periodica

Publication Date: 2022-04-30

Volume: 17

Issue: 1

Page Range: 94-99

Description:

The deteriorative processes occurring in the environment, the growth of population, the water demand of industry and agriculture, point out day after day the increasing role of water management. The economical use of drinking-water consumption as well as the cost reduction is becoming more and more important. In this research, the measure of a water supplier of Gyor was examined in terms of implementing the purposes above.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1556/606.2021.00467