Ride-sharing schemes attempt to reduce road traffic by matching prospective passengers to drivers with spare seats in their cars. To be successful, such schemes require a critical mass of drivers and passengers. Based on a history of advertised schedules and agreed shared trips, we observed an imbalance number of feasible matches between drivers and passengers. We assess the potential benefits ...

BACKGROUND Recent efforts to pass rear seat belt laws for adults have been hampered by large gaps in the scientific literature. This study examines driver, vehicle, crash, and passenger characteristics associated with mortality in rear-seated adult passengers. METHODS The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 2010 to 2011 was used to examine motor vehicle occupant mortality in rear-seated...

The increasing popularity of cruise tourism has led to the need for effective planning and management strategies enhance city tour experience passengers. This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based planner specifically designed optimize tours By leveraging power DRL, proposed aims maximize number visited attractions while considering constraints such as time availability, attr...

Three aspects of texture are considered by the fractal geometry: Fractal Dimension (FD), Lacunarity and Succolarity. Fractal Dimension has been well studied; a great number of approaches have been presented to extract it from images. It can be computed from black-white to multi-band image. There are many approaches also, from the simple Box-Dimension to the most complex Hausdorff Dimension. The...

Multimodal speaker verification based on easy-to-obtain biometric traits such as face and voice is rapidly gaining acceptance as the preferred technology for many applications. In many such practical applications, other characteristics of the speaker such as gender or age are known and may be exploited for enhanced verification accuracy. In this paper we present a parallel approach determining ...

Reading motivation is a fundamental basis for reading behavior and performance. For learners, interest an exceedingly important component of motivation. Prior research has shown that students’ text-based varies significantly between texts. However, it still unclear why one text elicits greater over another. Therefore, in this study, we investigated whether different characteristics, such as gen...

In this work a full vehicle model of a rural transport vehicle (RTV) is developed in MADYMO. The steering, tier and suspension are modeled using standard modules available in the package. A speed controller was also incorporated to maintain a constant speed of the vehicle in the simulations. Validation of the model was done against experimental accelerations measured over a bump. The validated ...