Traffic simulation represents an effective tool for evaluating the suggested alternatives to enhance traffic conditions prior to their application in real sites. U-turn sections represent examples of the complicated sections that cannot be analyzed properly without applying microsimulation approach.  Recently, in Iraq, speed humps were applied in prior to the merging locations and U-turn sectio...

U-turn is a complex driving manoeuvre entailing 180-degree turn to change the direction of travel towards the opposite direction. A cross-sectional survey based on convenience sampling was conducted at 120 U-turns in Karachi from February to October 2013. Shopkeepers operating in the close vicinity of U-turns were interviewed. Out of the 120 U-turns studied, 87(72.5%) were without median and 33...

Growth of total number of vehicles around the world is increase exponentially during past decade. Traffic monitoring is become a big issue in many countries. In India, Many cities having manned traffic monitoring system. A manned traffic monitoring system has certain issues like availability, accuracy of management staff. In this paper, we study different traffic monitoring system. Each system ...