Over the past decade, the emergence of the `environmental protest' movement has created significant policing challenges for any force unfortunate enough to play `host' to a major road construction project. Once constructed, the Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR) will be the United Kingdom's first `tolled motorway'. The scheme is hugely controversial because its environmental impact on 27 mi...

If environmental quality positively a ects the productivity of labor in R&D and pollution is caused by the use of a non-renewable resource, it is socially optimal to postpone extraction and to intertemporally adjust R&D e ort.

Since highway improvement project selection requires screening thousands of road segments with respect to crashes for further analysis and final project selection, we provide a two-step project selection methodology and describe an application case to demonstrate its advantages. In the first step of the proposed methodology, we will use odds against observing a given crash count, injury count, ...

Information on the productivity, costs and applications of the logging system is a key component in the evaluation of management plans for the rehabilitation and utilization of Caspian forests. Skidding and road construction costs are expensive forest operations. Determining the optimum forest road network density is one of the most important factors in sustainable forest management. Logging me...

During the last decade, significant progress was achieved in terms of policy and institutional reforms in the financial sector in India. A question that needs to be addressed is: how far have these initiatives resulted in narrowing the inter-market divergences and achieved reasonable degree of the market integration? This paper examines this issue empirically and attempts to provide some eviden...

The intelligent vehicle navigation based on machine vision is the important part to realize Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), and it includes road detection, obstacle detection and motion control. Combining with foreign and domestic latest research trends, in this article, we mainly study the typical method of road detection, and point out the research and development tendency of intelli...

Seit über 50 Jahren beschäftigt sich die Wissenschaft ernsthaft mit dem Thema ”Stau”. Ob Fahrzeuge, Menschen, Tiere oder Mikroben, überall wo sich viele ähnliche Objekte zur selben Zeit am selben Ort in dieselbe Richtung bewegen wollen, tritt er auf. Oft ohne erkennbaren Grund und plötzlich (”Stau aus dem Nichts”). In der Zwischenzeit sind manche Rätsel geklärt, einiges aber bleibt auch weiterh...

Annually, more than 1 million people were killed in road traffic accidents worldwide every year and an uncounted number were severe injured. In 2012 fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents are under the top ten lists of causes of death in the world. It´s expected that in the near future road traffic accidents become one of the main causes of death in the world. Most of these fatal injur...