BACKGROUND Because of the increased number of bicycle riders and governmental promotions, a recent increase in the construction of bicycle lanes has occurred. We aimed to characterize injuries specific to bicycle lane accidents by comparing them with injuries that occurred on regular roadways. On the basis of our findings, we provide suggestions on proper preventive strategies. METHODS We per...

This paper presents a novel approach to traffic management by coordinating driver behaviors. Current traffic management systems do not consider lane organization of the cars and only affect traffic flows by controlling traffic signals or ramp meters. However, drivers should be able to increase traffic throughput and more consistently maintain desired speeds by selecting lanes intelhgently. We p...

Here, the time point tj after stimulation corresponds to lane j, the smooth systematic error g depends on the lane index j and on the molecular weight m, measured in kD. The pipetting error f depends only on the lane number j, since it changes the amount of all proteins in a lane by the same factor. Errors arising from (i) and (iii) are uncorrelated among different lanes, resulting in 〈f(j)f(j′...

Recent developments in the theory of choice under uncertainty and risk yield a pessimistic decision theory that replaces the classical expected utility criterion with a Choquet expectation that accentuates the likelihood of the least favorable outcomes. A parallel theory has recently emerged in the literature on risk assessment. It is shown that pessimistic portfolio optimization based on the C...

This paper describes a new methodology for lane detection in Thin-Layer Chromatography images. An approach based on the continuous wavelet transform is used to enhance the relevant lane information contained in the intensity profile obtained from image data projection. Lane detection proceeds in three phases: the first obtains a set of candidate lanes, which are validated or removed in the seco...

Monocular vision-based lane departure warning system has been increasingly used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). By the use of the lane mark detection and identification, we proposed an automatic and efficient camera calibration method for smart phones. At first, we can detect the lane marker feature in a perspective space and calculate edges of lane markers in image sequences. Sec...

As safety and efficiency issues of transportation hand-in-hand with the intelligent vehicle concept – have gathered ground in the last few years in the automotive research community and have penetrated into the automotive industry, vision-based applications have become increasingly important in driver assistance systems (Kastrinaki et al., 2003; Bertozzi et al., 2002). The primary targets of th...

Frequent lane-changes in highway merging, diverging, and weaving areas often can disrupt traffic flow and, even worse, lead to accidents. For balanced lane-changing areas, where different lanes share the same traffic conditions, based on the observation that a vehicle has to take two lanes during its lane-changing period, we consider its contribution to traffic density is doubled. That is, ther...