The twenty-first century is witnessing Asia’sAsia return to what might be considered its historical proportions of the world’s population and economy. In 1800, AsiaAsia represented more than half global output. By 1900, it only 20% world output—not because something bad happened in AsiaAsia, but rather Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution, had transformed EuropeEurope North AmericaNorth A...

The use of wireless technology based on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) for information exchange can influence the drivers’ behavior towards improving driving performance and reducing road accidents. This information can even be more relevant if it is presented as a video stream. In this paper we propose a system that relies on VANET technology and video-streaming technology, the See Trough ...

Drivers' behavior is one of the most important factors in traffic safety. Understanding of this issue and its effective factors can be helpful to reduce the influences of human factors on traffic accidents. The objective of this study is to apply Manchester driver behavior questionnaire (DBQ) to a group of drivers who have overtaken on two-lane rural roads and to analyze their behavior. Also, t...

The subject of this paper is a mechanism that allows customers to overtake others. In our system, customers observe the queue length upon arrival, and have the option of overtaking some or all of the customers already present in the queue. Overtaking is associated with a fixed price per overtaken customer. If a customer chooses to overtake some but not all of the present customers, he overtakes...

Jovanovic and Nyarko (1996) showed that when agents learn-by-doing and are myopic, less advanced agents may adopt new technologies while more advanced ̄rms stick with the old technology since the new technology takes time to learn. In this case, the less advanced agents might eventually overtake (or \leapfrog") the advanced agents. We show that this kind of overtaking can also occur if agents ar...

Unsuccessful overtaking maneuvers on two-lane rural roads are one of the major causes road accidents in 21st century. The complexity this maneuver merits adoption a thorough method for developing proposed assistance system to prevent and consequently reduce high number fatalities associated economic costs. This study aims introduce an intelligent Driver Overtaking Assistance System (DOAS) assis...

We consider the problem of selecting an optimality criterion, when total costs diverge, in deterministic infinite horizon optimization over discrete time. Our formulation allows for both discrete and continuous state and action spaces, as well as time-varying, that is, nonstationary, data. The task is to choose a criterion that is neither too overselective, so that no policy is optimal, nor too...

Much of the Human Factors research into vehicle automation has focused on driver responses to critical scenarios where a crash might occur. However, there is less knowledge about the effects of vehicle automation on drivers' behaviour during non-critical take-over situations, such as driver-initiated lane-changing or overtaking. The current driving simulator study, conducted as part of the EC-f...

A naturalistic experiment used an instrumented bicycle to gather proximity data from overtaking motorists. The relationship between rider position and overtaking proximity was the opposite to that generally believed, such that the further the rider was from the edge of the road, the closer vehicles passed. Additionally, wearing a bicycle helmet led to traffic getting significantly closer when o...

It is well known that crashes on horizontal curves are a cause for concern in all countries due to the frequency and severity of crashes at curves compared to road tangents. A recent study of crashes in western Sweden reported a higher rate of crashes in right curves than left curves. To further understand this result, this paper reports the results of novel analyses of the responses of vehicle...