Roads can have two important effects on populations that impact genetic variation: reduced gene flow and reduced abundance. Reduced gene flow (‘‘barrier effects’’) due to road avoidance behavior or road mortality can lead to reduced genetic diversity because genetic drift is enhanced in fragmented populations. Road mortality can also reduce population abundance (‘‘depletion effects’’) whenever ...

Class of 2006 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities At first glance, the night scenes in the Futurist paintings Streetlight: A Study in Light, by Giacomo Balla, and Forces of the Street, by Umberto Boccioni, seem to have little relation to James Whistler’s Nocturne: Grey and Gold. Yet although the Futurists created their night scenes some 30 years later than Whistler, when we consider the...

Books can be owned simultaneously by the author, the merchant, and the purchaser, making it possible, as Lucius Annaeus Seneca observes, “for Titus Livius to receive his own books as a present, or to buy them from Dorus,” a bookseller.1 Ownership of a literary text is thus complicated rather than resolved by its presentation or sale: proprietary interest is multiplied as the text is reproduced,...

Efforts to reduce the negative impacts of roads on wildlife may be hindered if individuals within the population vary widely in their responses to roads and mitigation strategies ignore this variability. This knowledge is particularly important for medium-sized carnivores as they are vulnerable to road mortality, while also known to use available road passages (e.g., drainage culverts) for safe...

Transportation is basic service required by all citizens. Long route transportation is norm today for transporting goods and persons. Road transport has remained one of the important means of transportation. Increase in population and motorization in the country along with expansion of road network contributes to the number of road accidents, injuries and mortalities, as well as loss of product...

Abstract The main factors affecting specific road casualty rates are related to life-history traits, features, and landscape variables. After inauguration, roadkill rate spatial temporal patterns can change substantially due changes in traffic intensity, avoidance behaviour or local population decline. Despite the Canary Islands constituting a biodiversity hotspot, Canarian ecosystems highly th...

While empirical evidence shows the main effects of the driving style (principally speed choices) on safety, this study aims to quantify the influent parameters and their interactions upon the roadway departure risk. A previous work [1] using a sensitivity analysis concludes that speed, lateral position on the pavement, total embedded mass and mass center position are the relevant parameters. Th...

This paper uses Internet of Things(IOT) as a medium to propose a solution to the problem of accident detection and collision avoidance using present day technologies and also upcoming technologies. It also aims to reduce the traffic at toll nakas by providing an online payment facility in order to reduce day-to-day traffic. Loss of life due to road accident is a major cause of concern for any c...