We calculated the usable distance of the main roads in the coastal area of Iwate prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Calculations were based on a vehicle tracking map built from G-BOOK telematics data using QGIS, an open source geographic information system. The main findings are as follows. (1) The change in the accumulative usable road distance ratio during the research period di...

In this paper, a follow-up of [1, 2], we continue to study ternary Hamming spaces Tn, where T = f0; 1; 2g, and their generators. In particular, we are interested in the computational complexity of the generation of all vectors with respect to a speci c generator G Tn. We consider several parameters, i.e., depth and load, which provide alternative ways to measure the computational e ort required...

Over the last three years, the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, together with Jackson State University and a number of other academic and DoD partners have conducted a pilot project in distance education, using networkbased TANGO Interactive collaboration tool to deliver semester-long academic credit courses in a synchronous (real-time) fashion. This report summar...

Fog is a challenging problem for road safety. To estimate the fog density and estimate the meteorological visibility distance, some attempts using an in-vehicle cameras are being developed. To complete the notion of meteorological visibility, we propose to estimate the distance to the most distant visible object belonging to the road surface. We call this distance the mobilized visibility dista...

awareness they gain from their surroundings. Recent statistics indicate that about 40 percent of road accident fatalities are pedestrians, 30 percent of which are under 18 years old. Based on the fact that almost two million Iranian students study in the vicinity of rural roads, this paper aims to develop a model for predicting the risk of students’ accidents near the aforementioned schools. Th...

Although wildlife biologists need reliable estimates of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) density to facilitate management, few studies have examined distance sampling as a density estimation technique for this species. We compared direct (i.e., spotlighting from road transects) and indirect (i.e., counting pellets on randomly placed transects) distance-sampling techniques for estimati...

Query (e.g., shortest path) on road networks has been extensively studied. Although most of the existing query processing approaches are designed for centralized environments, there is a growing need to handle queries on road networks in distributed environments due to the increasing query workload and the challenge of querying large networks. In this demonstration, we showcase a distributed sy...