Road signs play a significant role in traffic control and road safety trough driver’s guidance, warning, and information. They are the main communication media towards the drivers. To be effective, they must be visible, legible and comprehensible. Road engineers and traffic manager, respectively aim at designing and placing in the road environment, road signs enough salient so that they attract...

The wide range of contributing factors and circumstances surrounding crashes on road curves suggest that no single intervention can prevent these crashes. This paper presents a novel methodology, based on data mining techniques, to identify contributing factors and the relationship between them. It identifies contributing factors that influence the risk of a crash. Incident records, described u...

This paper presents an approach adopted by the authors to designing a system used for creating a 3D model of road communication. Measurements of the environment have been executed using the mobile measurement platform that consists of two laser measurement systems (2D scanners), high accuracy position navigation (SPAN Synchronized Position Attitude Navigation), in the future also a set of diffe...

OBJECTIVE Describe the risk behaviour relationships with road safety in adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING Madrid and Andalusia Regions, representative samples. PARTICIPANTS The sample included 3,612 in secondary school pupils from Madrid (n=1708) and Andalusia (n=1904). The survey was carried out during May and June 2007. MAIN MEASUREMENTS The data collected...

One of the most challenging tasks while designing an automotive electronic device is to take into account its whole electro-mechanic environment, so that time expensive failure tests can be reduced. We show a case study, developed in collaboration with an industrial partner, in which an automotive Compact Disk (CD) player is modelled. Using VHDL-AMS, not only its whole mixed-signal electro-mech...

Vehicular networking has become a significant research area due to its specific features and applications such as standardization, efficient traffic management, road safety and infotainment. Vehicles are expected to carry relatively more communication systems, on board computing facilities, storage and increased sensing power. Hence, several technologies have been deployed to maintain and promo...