Detection of lane markings based on a camera sensor can be a low cost solution to lane departure and curve over speed warning. A number of methods and implementations have been reported in the literature. However, reliable detection is still an issue due to cast shadows, wearied and occluded markings, variable ambient lighting conditions etc. We focus on increasing the reliability of detection ...

Driving an automobile autonomously on rural roads requires knowledge about the geometry of the road. Furthermore, knowledge about the meaning of each lane of the road is needed in order to decide which lane should be taken and if the vehicle can do a lane change. This paper addresses the problem of extracting additional information about lanes. The information is extracted from the types of roa...

The behaviors of heavy vehicles drivers in mandatory and discretionary lane changes are analyzed in this paper. 640 mandatory and 2,035 discretionary lane change events were extracted from a naturalistic driving database. Variations in gap acceptance and lane change duration were investigated. Statistical analysis showed that mandatory lane changes are more aggressive in gap acceptance and lane...

S1 Fig. Verification of EBOV VLPs. (A) Protein purification of EBOVMS2 VLP. Proteins of various molecular weights were differentiated by gel exclusion chromatography. The target protein of EBOV VLP was obtained around 60mins. (B) The visual results of EBOV VLPs in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The bands between 10KD and 15KD were EBOV VLPs. Lane M, prestained protein molecular weight ...

Travel Demands influence micro-level traffic behavior, furthermore traffic states. In order to evaluate the effect of travel demands on traffic states, this paper introduces the DemandMotivation-Behaviors (DMB) micro traffic behavior analysis model which denotes that vehicles behaviors are determines by motivations that relies on traffic demands from the perspective of behavior science. For veh...

This paper introduces a multi-lane hybrid theory that treats lane-changing as temporary blockages, because this is what is physically observed in reality. For maximum accuracy lanechanging vehicles are modeled as discrete particles endowed with limited acceleration capabilities that interact realistically with the multi-lane continuum stream. This discrete-continuum (hybrid) setup is parsimonio...

Traffic safety is a major concern in the temporary one-lane, two-way highway work zones due to the increasing of construction and maintenance operations. To prevent rear-end crashes and to mitigate the severity of these crashes caused by the inattentive driving, the utilization of the Emergency Flasher Traffic Control Device (EFTCD) was under consideration by government agencies, in addition to...

Fig. S1. Results of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using universal primers targeting mycobacterium DNA: hsp65 short (hsp65S; 441 bp), long (hsp65L; ca.770 bp), rpoB short (rpoBS; ca.330bp), long (rpoBL; ca.450bp) genes and the 16S-23S spacer region (internal transcribed spacer (ITS); ca. 350 bp). Clear strong bands with hsp65L, rpoBS, and ITS primers proved the existence of mycobacteria DNA. I...

To help mitigate road congestion caused by the unrelenting growth of traffic demand, many transit authorities have implemented managed lane policies. Managed lanes typically run parallel to a freeway’s standard, general-purpose (GP) lanes, but are restricted to certain types of vehicles. It was originally thought that managed lanes would improve the use of existing infrastructure through incent...