More than half of fatalities to seat-belt-wearing drivers in frontal crashes occur at impact speeds below 55km/h. Pedestrians and other vulnerable road users are at risk at much lower speeds. The impact speed depends on the timing and degree of braking, if any, that occurs before the crash. The resulting impact speed is highly dependent on the initial travel speed. Small increases in travel spe...

In time-distance helioseismology, the time signals (Doppler shifts) at two points on the solar surface, separated by a fixed angular distance are crosscorrelated, and this leads to a wave packet signal. Accurately measuring the travel times of these wave packets is crucial for inferring the sub-surface properties in the Sun. The observed signal is quite noisy, and to improve the signal-tonoise ...

Understanding speed and travel-time dynamics in response to various city related events is an important and challenging problem. Sensor data (numerical) containing average speed of vehicles passing through a road segment can be interpreted in terms of near real-time report of traffic related incidents from city authorities and social media data (textual), providing a complementary understanding...

We consider algorithms for finding the optimal location of a simple transportation device, that we call a moving walkway, consisting of a pair of points in the plane between which the travel speed is high. More specifically, one can travel from one endpoint of the walkway to the other at speed v > 1, but can only travel at unit speed between any other pair of points. The travel time between any...

The sound speed in biological tissues provides important diagnostic and treatment planning information. Conventional methods of sound-speed determination generally require that transducers make physical contact with specimens in order to measure thickness and travel time in the time domain. The physical contact may cause deformation and affect blood flow and the measurement of travel time in th...

Real-time traffic flow operation condition of freeway gradually becomes the critical information for the freeway users and managers. In fact, electronic toll collection (ETC) transaction data effectively records operational information of vehicles on freeway, which provides a new method to estimate the travel speed of freeway. First, the paper analyzed the structure of ETC transaction data and ...

for designing tillage implements it would be better to estimate soil forces exerted to the implements. many researches showed that numerical method of discrete element method (dem) is the cheapest and fastest technique for modeling granular material such as soil and especially sandy soil. in this study, paraplow and bentleg tines performance was compared with conventional tine using experimenta...