urbanization development followed by increase in travel demand in recent years made some problems for cities such as traffic, lack of suitable parking, environmental issues, economic and social etc. meanwhile, public transport, especially bus services are very important in the development of urban functions thus, paying attention to different aspects of the transport in order to increase its ef...

We describe the design of an efficient portable driver for shared memory interconnects. The driver provides a foundation for interfacing to commodity software like clustered database servers. We present performance figures for a driver implementation that uses SCI through the PCI bus on standard PCs running Windows NT.

Visually impaired and blind people have major difficulties in locating and communicating with public transport vehicles due to their restriction of vision. They must rely on other people’s help or technical supports. In this paper we show how direct communication with the bus driver via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is possible. A person with visual restriction is able to send and receive messages...

One morning, we were waiting for our college bus. The Wipro industry bus was slowly passing nearby us looking for its employees. At the last moment, when the driver increased speed, one person stepped down from the auto rickshaw and shouted “stop the bus, stop the bus”. Voluntarily, whoever was present started shouting “stop, stop the bus”. The sound finally reached the bus driver who stopped t...

THIS book is in the best traditions of the publications supported by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust in that it is attractively produced, well written and highly topical. Indeed, it is not surprising that the Trust have sponsored this epidemiological study in these days when the human toll exacted by road accidents is a matter of national disquiet. The authors have dealt with the concep...

Nowadays, transportation plays a very important role for students in the day to day life of the educational institutions, these institutes are mostly located out of cities. Need of monitoring the travel time and driver information are the major components of traveller information system in the institutions. The travel time of buses varies depending on some parameters such as Bus Drivers doesn't...