This paper deals with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and the concept of a Co-operative Transport System (CTS), in which the communication and the knowledge sharing is much more important. This distributed knowledge allows improving road transport operations more safety and efficiency. After showing some issues about development and advantages of a CTS, the communication part is discussed a...

The demand for fossil fuel in the transport sector is constantly increasing and transportation is ranked amongst the highest greenhouse emitting sectors globally. Today, tackling CO2 emissions from road transport a widely discussed topic and constitutes a milestone towards reaching a sustainable, carbon neutral economy. This challenge is being described in various initiatives adopted in the ...

Traffic conditions significantly affect drivers‟ behavior that constitutes one of the principal causes of road accidents. Being able to accurately predict traffic conditions significantly improves the assessment of accident risk. Traditional approaches to traffic flow analysis use static representations of the road system and as such have limited accuracy. Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) appro...

introduction this study determines the effect of prehospital time and advanced trauma life support interventions for trauma patients transported to an our trauma center. materials and methods this study was a retrospective study of trauma victims presenting to a trauma center in central iran by emergency medical services (ems) and hospitalized for more than 24 hours. demographic and injury char...

All countries in Europe have road fuel taxes and these account for roughly half of the net fuel price. We compare current road fuel taxes and corrective taxes, estimated on the basis of negative externalities from road transport for 22 European countries, taking into account the effect of fuel taxation on fuel efficiency. We focus on cars running on diesel or petrol and commercial vehicles runn...

Developing region road traffic has a unique characteristic of high heterogeneity in vehicle types. In this paper, we describe VividhaVahana1, a smartphone sensor based system to categorize road vehicles into four predominant categories: two-wheeler bikes, three-wheeler auto-rickshaws, four-wheeler cars and public transport like buses. Using a variety of sensor based features, our system is able...

Current policies in the road transport sector fail to deliver consistent and efficient incentives for greenhouse gas abatement (see companion article by Creutzig et al., in press). Market-based instruments such as cap-and-trade systems close this policy gap and complement traditional policies that are required where specific market failures arise. Even in presence of strong existing non-market ...

An essential government function is to provide for the safe, efficient and environmentally friendly movement of people and goods. The past 20 years have seen tremendous growth and important changes in the use of road transport to such a degree urban congestion is adding significantly to the costs of road transport and hence to end consumers. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) offer promising s...