road safety must be shared responsibility between the school, the parents/caregivers, the children, territorial authority, transport agencies, and police. children need to learn to use the roads safety, to walk and cycle in safety, and also to use their common sense when crossing a road or getting into a car. road safety is essential for children’s freedom, development, and exercise and of cour...

polymer application for the improvement and modification of the bitumen used in roads surfaces has expanded in recent decades. the roads engineers and constructors, therefore, have used the modified bitumen in asphalts helping in this way to increase roads and pavements service life and improving the durability of the roads and asphalts. the bitumen used in asphalt mixture constitutes only a lo...

forest roads are basic infrastructures for management of forested areas. sustainable management of roads depends on regular and timely forest road maintenance. road inventory is as an important tool to recognize the needs of roads and do corresponding correction operations. gis can be a powerful tool for acquirement, analysis and management of data in road management. the purpose of this study ...

When driving on lower-category Dutch rural roads without any delineation, drivers are likely to drift off the road with their right-side wheels, thus incurring damage to the pavement edge or even leading to accidents. In two experiments, two types of road-edge delineation, with continuous or dashed edge lines, were compared with two control roads without lines or with only a dashed line on the ...

Since 1994, TRL in collaboration with a number of road authorities and consultant partners have been engaged in extensive studies of the performance of low volume sealed roads within Southern Africa (Greening and Gourley, 1999). The roads included in service primary and secondary roads with ages varying from thirty years old to relatively new roads and specially constructed experimental section...

Congestion roads can cause many unwelcome results like making people late to work; deliveries do not arrive on time and more. One way to tackle this annoyance is letting the driver know which roads are congested, so they will be able not to go through them. This paper suggests a fast computerized method of concluding which roads are congested and which ones are vacant by automatic analyzing of ...

Introduction: Heavy metals (HMs) accumulated in the road dust may be transferred to the surrounding land and water bodies and pose ecological risks. Hence, such pollution should be considered, especially in coastal roads. This study focuses on the HMs pollution of dust settled on the surface of coastal roads along the Persian Gulf in Bandar Abbas city. Materials and Methods: In this study, ro...