An important aspect of area-wide traffic calming concepts is the integration of major urban roads, because 70 to 80 percent of all urban accidents occur on major roads. Traffic calming which is primarily based on the locational shift to such main thoroughfares is socially injust, because -in spite of all disturbances on those streets about one quarter of the urban population live there. Social ...

Throughout their recent recovery in several industrialized countries, large carnivores have had to cope with a changed landscape dominated by human infrastructure. Population growth depends on the ability of individuals to adapt to these changes by making use of new habitat features and at the same time to avoid increased risks of mortality associated with human infrastructure. We analyzed the ...

Automatic extraction of roads is a present research topic. Many applications like topographic mapping, navigation applications, or image registration could profit from such algorithms. This paper is concerned with automatic road extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. An approach originally developed for the extraction of roads in rural areas from optical imagery with a ground p...

The linkage between NHL morbidity and residence near heavy roads is analyzed among the Jewish population of the Haifa Metropolis, Israel. The addresses of 1436 patients (94.5% of all cases, 1995-2004) were geocoded. The geographic distribution of NHL patients was adjusted by the overall density of population in the study area. The analysis indicates steady decline in the "density adjusted" numb...

Traffic jams are a severe problem affecting cities around the world, and they are only getting worse as the population and number of vehicles continues to increase significantly while the area available for building roads does not. Annually, many citizens waste countless hours stuck in traffic, and the amount of time spent is expected to increase. One study calculated that in 75 different city ...

Introduction Increasingly, we are becoming aware that fatigue while driving may contribute to a significant proportion of the crashes occurring on NSW roads. Current statistics estimate that fatigue plays a significant role in around 20 percent of fatal crashes on NSW roads, however, many acknowledge that this is likely to be an underestimate of the involvement of fatigue since many crashes tha...