human factors issues associated with roadway design and operations are critical components of improving highway safety. first, the three major components of highway safety are driver behavior, vehicle safety, and roadway safety. the general philosophy in roadside safety follows the priorities of (1) remove the hazard, (2) relocate the hazard, (3) make the hazard forgiving, and (4) shield the ha...

Though there exist ready-made DSRC/WiFi/3G/4G cellular systems for roadway communications, there are common defects in these systems for roadway safety oriented applications and the corresponding challenges remain unsolved for years, i.e., WiFi cannot work well in vehicular networks due to the high probability of packet loss caused by burst communications, which is a common phenomenon in roadwa...

Entry by spinoffs from incumbent firms is investigated for the laser industry. A model in which spinoffs exploit knowledge from their parents is constructed to explain the market conditions conducive to spinoffs, the types of firms that spawn spinoffs, and the relationship of spinoffs to their parents. The model is tested using detailed data on all laser entrants from the start of the industry ...

Water inrush disaster is an important factor in restricting safe production of the coal mine. Taking the roadway in seam in Danhou Coal Mine, as the engineering background, according to the spatial relationship of the roadway, the impermeable layer, the fault and the loading conditions, the fault activation mechanical model under the roadway excavation disturbance was built, and the fault activ...

According to the geological characteristics of Xinjiang Ili mine in western area of China, a physical model of interstratified strata composed of soft rock and hard coal seam was established. Selecting the tunnel position, deformation modulus, and strength parameters of each layer as influencing factors, the sensitivity coefficient of roadway deformation to each parameter was firstly analyzed b...

We first make a note on the use of infimum instead of minimum in Equation 4 of the paper. This is because BT may only exist in the limit. An example is shown in Figure 1, where M is made up of a horizontal sheet and a vertical, cylindrical sheet close to the horizontal sheet’s boundary. The two sheets meet at a non-manifold seam with a circular shape (dotted curve). The shortest exposing tree a...

Most accidents happens because of lack of Visibility and not Driver’s reaction on time whenan accident occurs. Increasing required Time for driver’s reaction caused to decreasingaccidents on roadways .intelligent vehicle networks brings enough time for reaction by sendingalert and alternate messages to vehicles on roadway. Main propose in this paper is aroundmodulation on Reception interval Saf...

Roadway elevation data is critical for a variety of transportation analyses. However, it has been challenging to obtain such data and most roadway GIS databases do not have them. This paper intends to address this need by proposing a method to extract roadway elevation data from Google Earth (GE) for transportation applications. A comprehensive accuracy assessment of the GE-extracted elevation ...

Aiming at the large deformation problem of U type steel support for the roadway in deep high stress soft rock, By means of theoretic analysis and digital imitation, study on U type steel support for soft Rock Roadway. A u shaped steel & anchor rope combined supporting structure was put forward ,with the help of numerical simulation analyzing the structural, results show that the structure contr...

Decision makers working to improve transportation systems must constantly balance the need to improve roadway safety through infrastructure investment with constraints of available resources. We have explored the additional information available to transportation decision makers by integrating two independent datasets, traffic accident and roadway pavement condition data. The roadway condition ...