Modeling, estimation and control of distributed parameter systems: application to transportation networks by Sébastien Blandin Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering – Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley Professor Alexandre M. Bayen, Chair The research presented in this dissertation is motivated by the need for well-posed mathematical models of traffic flow for d...

Taylor's fluctuation scaling (FS) has been observed in many natural and man-made systems revealing an amazing universality of the law. Here, we give a reliable explanation for the origins and abundance of Taylor's FS in different complex systems. The universality of our approach is validated against real world data ranging from bird and insect populations through human chromosomes and traffic i...

Traffic accidents were ranked the third among the major causes of death in Thailand. About 13,438 deaths and the death rate from traffic accident was 21.5 per 100,000 of population in 2002. The deaths and death rate varied upon the economic situation. After the economic crisis, traffic accidents were increased as well as the period of the bubble economy. In the Central region of Thailand number...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the time from law enforcement dispatch to the first blood draw in cases of driving under the influence (DUI) vehicular homicide and a subset of DUI vehicular assault cases in Colorado in 2012. Laboratory toxicology results were also examined to understand the implications of delays in blood draws in cases of driving while under the influence of marijuana's delta-9-...

The paper assesses blood alcohol concentration and risk behaviors for traffic accidents before and after the implementation of a law which prohibits the use of alcoholic beverages on city gas stations. In Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil, young people go out at night and drive to gas station convenience stores to buy alcoholic beverages which are consumed on the premises of parking lots in gas sta...

While scheduling the nodes in a wireless network to sleep periodically can save energy, it also incurs higher latency and lower throughput. We consider the problem of designing optimal sleep schedules in wireless networks, and show that finding sleep schedules that can minimize the latency over a given subset of source-destination pairs is NP-hard. We also derive a latency lower bound given by ...

The 1945 Constitution of the Republic Indonesia has mandated in article 1 paragraph (3) that our country is a state law, so let it be law as its commander, especially an era democracy craves main pillar. purpose this study to provide action traffic offenders. research method used normative juridical research, which based on literature includes primary legal materials, secondary materials and te...