Road information as a type of basic geographic information is very important for services such as city planning and traffic navigation, as such there is an urgent need for updating road information in a timely manner. Scholars have proposed various methods of extracting roads from remote sensing images, but most of them are not applicable to rural roads with diverse materials, large curvature c...

JT00127539 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format CEMT/CM(2002)11/FINAL 2 Although still far from satisfactory, more progress has been made on road safety on motorways and urban roads over the past 20 years than on country roads. Rural roads are defined as roads outside urban areas that are not motorways or unpav...

This paper presents the results of a cost-effectiveness study concerning the effects of an overtaking prohibition on two lane rural roads. Overtaking prohibitions are being implemented in the Netherlands aiming to improve safety. Overtaking frequency on road sections with and without overtaking prohibition are measured by means of camera observations Overtaking frequencies were determined by co...

More US teens die from traffic crashes than from any other cause, with speed and rural roads major contributing factors. This study aimed to validate a high-fidelity simulator to explore these risks in an injury-free environment. Twenty-one newly-licensed 16-year-old males completed simulated and on-the-road drives of the same rural roads. Average free speeds on three road segments showed no sy...

The analysis of images taken of the ground from aircraft and satellites is of intense importance. This chapter describes work using the ADAM neural network that was aimed at finding way-points, roads, towns and rural areas in Infra Red Line Scan images of the ground. The network is capable of on-line, single pass training and simple computer implementation, making it particularly applicable in ...

Two-way two-lane roads have a significant impact on road transportation infrastructure. Platoon formation is one of the factors that affect quality traffic flow roads. More specifically, creation platoon increases density vehicles and number overtaking maneuvers decreases performance The present study made an effort to investigate effect characteristics Moreover, it strived develop nonlinear re...