In recent years, numerous researches have been carried out with purpose of predicting motor vehicle crashes on transportation facilities as freeways and urban or rural highways. Accident process can be modeled successfully with assuming a dual-state data-generating process. Based on this assumption, road components like intersections or road segments have two states of perfectly safe and unsafe...

Automatic and semi-automatic methods for the extraction of topographic information are a present research topic. Especially for topographic mapping and navigation applications road extraction is important, but still not in practice. Due to the speckle effect and the limited width of roads with respect to the ground resolution automatic road extraction from SAR imagery is rather difficult. In th...

The introduction of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will have far-reaching effects on road traffic in cities and on highways.The implementation of Automated Highway Systems (AHS), possibly with a dedicated lane only for AVs, is believed to be a requirement to maximise the benefit from the advantages of AVs. We study the ramifications of an increasing percentage of AVs on the traffic system with and w...

Purpose: To identify the influence of following factors on level socio-economic development, both individual regions and country as a whole: administrative functional affiliation highways, transport operational characteristics highways state road economy. Methods: Analysis synthesis results regarding impact development state. Results: Flow-charts have been developed showing country’s economy, i...

As a global phenomenon, farmland abandonment continues to challenge the sustainability of agri-food supply and rural development. Investigating heterogeneous effects multilevel location on is great importance understand spatial disparity mechanism abandonment, which has significant policy implications for food security revitalization. Taking Tai’an City as case, this study aims explore impact a...

The only way to keep up with the ever-increasing number of cars on roads is through constant change and improvement in the transportation infrastructure. Construction of new roads is constrained by space and financial resources. Therefore, there is a need to devise ways to make optimal use of the existing infrastructure. In this position paper, we describe a lane reservation system for highways...

A National Initiative sponsored by The Getty Art History Information Program The American Council of Learned Societies The Coalition for Networked Information This working report was developed by the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as a joint project with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Coalition for Networked Info...

SHIVA (Simulated Highways for Intelligent Vehicle Algorithms) addresses deficiencies present in existing microscopic traffic simulators with: 1. Realistic sensor modeling. 2. Support for communicating vehicles. 3. A variety of driver models. 4. Efficient integration with real robots. SHIVA runs on Sun Sparcstations (under X) and SGI workstations (using Inventor). Class hierarchies for vehicles,...

The objective of this study was to assess the effects of projected truck traffic on the highway system of Texas in consideration of the social and economic vitality of the State. The study included the evaluation of the costs and benefits for a twenty-year planning horizon. Alternative scenarios of future truck traffic were assessed. The study did not consider the effects of changes in the size...