This paper develops an economic framework for developing strategies necessary to deploy networks, and applies the framework to the deployment of road pricing. The cost structure of highways are discussed. A graphical method for measuring welfare with road pricing is presented. The relationship of space and financing mechanism is reviewed. A network model of the economy is presented. This is fol...

Solar energy has been subject of great development in the past years, which led to the concept of Solar Roads: photovoltaic panels along the highways and roads. SmartSolarGrid is the merge of Solar Roads with Smart Grids, a new electrical distribution grid with improved efficiency and control. The goal of this work is to develop a software tool that further improves the efficiency of the electr...

Speech recognition should be as an eyes-free and handsfree interface. To realise this technology, we need to clarify acoustics in a helmet and determine how much highlevel riding noise affects captured speech data. This paper describes the acoustics in a helmet and transfer functions of the microphone position. We constructed a data collection system and collected the speech data of motorbike r...

This paper describes the application of AI techniques to the problem of designing civil engineering objects like highways or roads. These design processes must cope with a complex environment, and constraints and alternatives are not predefined, but chosen during the process of designing. Several abstract models of design are presented and their applicability to road design is discussed. Finall...

Accelerated urbanization and industrialization have led to an alarming increase in the rate of accidental injuries, crime and violence in India. An unprecedented increase in the number of vehicles has outpaced the development of adequate roads and highways. India has 1% of the motor vehicles in the world, but bears the burden of 6% of the global vehicular accidents. It is well recognized that o...

Japanese companies in India are required to pay additional costs to avoid breakdown of machinery due to blackouts and voltage changes. The bad condition of roads inflicts damage on commodities during transportation. Transportation between Delhi and the South takes one week due to the lack of express highways. Economic losses are incurred because of the long transportation time and high gasoline...

The purpose of this research is development of an algorithm for hardware implementation for number recognition applying in speed traffic-sign recognition system for car driving assistant. We recognize the speed limit of the speed traffic-sign using hardware oriented extraction algorithm. The numbers are recognized by comparing their feature values with the recognized features. The proposed hard...

BACKGROUND Pregnant women exposed to traffic pollution have an increased risk of negative birth outcomes. We aimed to investigate the size of this risk using a prospective cohort of 970 mothers and newborns in Logan, Queensland. METHODS We examined two measures of traffic: distance to nearest road and number of roads around the home. To examine the effect of distance we used the number of roa...

Phase 5 of the evaluation of the speed camera program in Victoria builds on the localised effects of the program studied in Phase 3, which found casualty crash reductions in areas within lkm of a speed camera site during high alcohol hours for up to 2 weeks after issue of a speed camera Traffic Infringement Notice (TIN). Phase 5 had 2 main aims; (1) To investigate the localised effects of the s...