The aim of this study was to geographically analyse the traffic casualties in pedestrians in downtown of Tehran City. Study population consisted of pedestrians who had traffic injury accidents from April 2014 to March 2015 in Tehran City. Data were extracted from the offices of traffic police and municipality. For analysis of environmental factors and site of accidents, Ordinary Least Square (O...

With the increased popularity of mobile devices carrying ability to gather location coordinates and with the use of internet in the form of 3G and LTE services, it has now become possible to track someone carrying these devices. Once such data is gathered over period of time, it can help to predict the next location with the help of historical patterns of movements. It is a common human tendenc...

A new feeding concept for electrical transportation systems is presented, based on supercapacitive energy storage. Supercapacitors are new and powerful components for energy storage. Compared with batteries, the amount of energy they can store is low and does not allow a large vehicle autonomy. Because supercapacitors have the property to be re-loadable in a few seconds, a sequential supply sys...

This chapter discusses our research efforts in tracking driver distraction using multimodal features. A car equipped with various sensors is used to collect a database with real driving conditions. During the recording, the drivers were asked to perform common secondary tasks such as operating a cell phone, talking to another passenger and changing the radio stations. We analyzed the difference...

Big – Bang and Big – Crunch (BB-BC) optimization method for multioptimization of economic load dispatch and emission dispatch of thermal power generating stations is presented using weighted sum method, trade-off solutions are obtained assuming decision makers (DM) requirements by solving optimal power flows. BB-BC optimization which is a nonderivative, population search optimization procedure ...

In recent years, electric utility industry in the whole world has been facing pressure to be deregulated or restructured in order to increase its efficiency, to reduce operational costs or to give consumers more alternatives. The once centralized system planning and operation management must be remodelled to adapt to the new market environment. Subject to the unavoidable constraints, such as, c...

The recently published ISO/IEC 29110 for systems engineering has been used as the main framework for the development of the management and systems engineering processes at CSinTrans Inc. (CSiT), a Canadian company, founded in 2011. CSiT specializes in the integration of communication and security systems in transit industry such as trains, subways and buses as well as railway stations, subway s...

The current study examined the prevalence of and motivation for drug and alcohol use among black African minorities in England. Participants, comprising 82 males (i.e., 71.9%) and 32 females (i.e., 28.1%), aged 18 to 60 years, were recruited through contact on the streets, and from recreation centres, bus stations, train stations, and shopping centres in Liverpool, Manchester, and London. A sel...

The current status of the control system for a new high intensity proton accelerator, the JAERI-KEK Joint Project, is presented. Phase 1 of the Joint Project has been approved and recently started its construction at the JAERI site at Tokai. The first beam commissioning is scheduled in 2006. In parallel with it, a 60-MeV Linac is now being constructed at the KEK site at Tsukuba for R&D purposes...

The paper presents two variations of a Local Area Network based on a modified concept of Ethernet. Unlike many other concepts (e.g. collision-free protocols) the proposed modifications are simple, realistic and inexpensive. In particular, the essence of the CSMA-CD protocol is retained. The performance of the new networks is demonstrated to be superior to the performance of standard Ethernet. T...