The economic growth in Banyumas Regency, Central Java, and its surroundings, followed by the increasing number of vehicles crossing area. Among national roads Banyumas, Buntu intersection area is one that requires attention. Data collection was conducted interviewing filling out questionnaires directly from respondents. In considering priority road repairs, there are 11 criteria used this study...

A well developed and maintained highway infrastructure is essential for the economic social prosperity of modern societies. Highway maintenance poses significant challenges pertaining to ever-increasing ongoing traffic, insufficient budget allocations lack resources. Road potholes detection timely repair a major contributing factor sustaining safe resilient critical road infrastructure. Current...

Nairobi, Kenya exhibits a wide variety of micro-climates and heterogeneous surfaces. Paved roads and high-rise buildings interspersed with low vegetation typify the central business district, while large neighborhoods of informal settlements or "slums" are characterized by dense, tin housing, little vegetation, and limited access to public utilities and services. To investigate how heat varies ...

This report describes an autonomous mobile robot designed to navigate at high speeds over featureless terrainterrain which is not navigable by relying on features that are found on paved roads and highways. To this end we have developed a paradigm that we call position bused navigation that relies on explicit vehicle position information from inertial and satellite instruments, to navigate. Spe...

Pavement condition assessment is a critical step in road pavement management. In contrast to the automatic and objective methods used for rural roads, most commonly method urban areas development of visual surveys usually filled out by technicians, which leads subjective assessment. Whereas previous studies on identification distresses focused crack detection, this research aims not only cover ...

Between 1900 and 2000, the length of paved roads in the United States increased from 240 km to 6,400,000 km (Peat 2002, BTS 2002) with virtually 100% of the U.S. population having almost immediate access to paved roadways. Similarly, in 1830 there were 37 km of railroad in the United States, but by 1920 total track mileage had increased more than ten-thousand times to 416,000 km miles, however ...

Haul trucks have the potential to generate large amounts of respirable dust. This respirable dust has been shown to be a health hazard to personnel, especially if it has a high silica content. Lack of dust sampling data from haul trucks prompted the completion of a study to quantify respirable dust concentrations. These field studies were conducted measuring instantaneous respirable dust at sta...

introduction atmosphere health is an important environmental issue and air pollution is not a local problem in a given area of the world. particles produced by either humans or the nature enter the atmosphere and return the earth’s surface at local, regional, or global scales after physico-chemical interactions. according to the reports by who, each year 2.4 million people lose their lives worl...