Roads and Vehicle Maintenance

Heavy Vehicle Rollover Propensity At Roundabouts On Highspeed Roads

Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) for Maintenance Vehicle Applications

O1: Roads Safety and Neurotrauma

Road traffic accidents account for approximately 3000 deaths on a daily basis, and 50 million injuries and 1.2 million deaths each year. In low-income and middle income countries, road traffic accidents account for 85% of deaths and 90% of annual disability. Casualties of this magnitude are a serious problem throughout the world and create a significant impact on society. In addition, neurologi...

Comparison of Passenger Vehicle and Tmck Crash Rates on Toll Roads

Overall comparisons of crash rates based on mileage indicate that truck crash rates are lower than car crash rates, but that truck crashes are more severe. In 1978 the overall U.S. crash rate for cars was estimated at 8.2 accidents per million vehicle-miles of travel; for large trucks (including combinations) the rate was 4.7 per million vehicle-miles, and for combination trucks (e.g., tractor-...

A Realtime Road Boundary Detection and Vehicle Detection for Indian Roads

Traffic conditions in Indian urban and sub urban roads are in many ways not ideal for driving. This is due to faded and unmaintained lane markings. Therefore driving sometimes becomes difficult. Due to inappropriate markings of the roads, it is difficult to track the lane marking using conventional lane marking algorithms. Therefore the issue of Lane tracking with road boundary detection and ot...