This paper presents a new fast binocular stereo approach for the detection and tracking of objects, in particular for stop&go traffic. The proposed scheme is based on a local feature extraction and detects dominant objects by means of a Hough transform like disparity grouping. It is able to handle not only vehicles, but also other objects such as pedestrians. In addition, it allows to determine...

The Idle Stop and Go(ISG) system is a technology proposed as a solution for improving fuel efficiency and reducing exhaust gas in the traffic jam. A typical ISG system turns on or off the engine automatically depending on whether the host vehicle starts or stops. This type system can make fuel efficiency more badly because of frequent engine on/off operation. In this paper, the new Idle Stop an...

A key qualitative requirement for highway traffic models is the ability to replicate a type of traffic jam popularly referred to as a phantom jam, shock wave or stop-and-go wave. Despite over 50 years of modelling, the precise mechanisms for the generation and propagation of stop-and-go waves and the associated spatio-temporal patterns are in dispute. However, the increasing availability of emp...

We study the impact of a localized defect in a cellular automaton model for traffic flow which exhibits metastable states and phase separation. The defect is implemented by locally limiting the maximal possible flow through an increase of the deceleration probability. Depending on the magnitude of the defect three phases can be identified in the system. One of these phases shows the characteris...

Generally, vehicles’ stop-and-go driving will consume more fuel and emit more co2 than constant speed of vehicles .To reduce vehicles’ CO2 emissions vehicles’ travel should be smoothed by reducing the stop-and-go times. In this paper, three techniques are proposed to realize dynamic traffic light control for smoothing vehicles’ travel. In technique-1, an intelligent transportation system (ITS) ...

Prions prefer caveosomes he story of prions gets increasingly bizarre. The peculiar pathogenicity of prion protein (PrP) makes understanding and treating the resulting diseases difficult. Now, on page 703, Peters et al. provide evidence that PrP also uses an unusual endocytic pathway en route to lysosomes. The harmless version of PrP is processed and directed to caveolin-rich glycolipid rafts a...