Many agencies use traffic crash data to identify problems, establish goals and performance measures, measure progress of specific programs, and support development and evaluation of highway and vehicle safety countermeasures. Traditionally, efforts have considered only crash data and roadway network attributes and have not taken adjacent demographics, socioeconomics, land use, and other non-roa...

Roadway traffic control is an important practical example of real time control applications, but effective roadway control is hampered by a variety of organizational, financial and technical considerations. One major hurdle is the current reliance on outmoded field hardware and software. A systematic approach to traffic engineering software development could provide significant advantages with ...

(the prime indicates differentiation with respect to x). P(x) and Q(x) (positive downward) are the live load per unit length and the dead load of the roadway, cable, and hangers per unit length. E and / (assumed constants) are the modulus of elasticity and moment of inertia of the roadway and H (constant) is the horizontal dead-load tension in the cable. The term h (constant), the induced live-...

A fire developing tendency mathematical model of mine fire zone under positive pressure ventilation was established and was validated based on the particularly serious fire accident of Fuhua “9.20” in Heilongjiang province. Then the law of positive pressure ventilation influence on the fire zone developing tendency and its enlightenment to work safety were obtained. Under positive pressure vent...

Compliance to standardized highway design criteria is considered essential to ensure roadway safety. However, for a variety of reasons, situations arise where exceptions to standard-design criteria are requested and accepted after review. This research explores the impact that such design exceptions have on the frequency and severity of highway accidents in Indiana. Data on accidents at careful...

This paper presents an intelligent traffic monitoring system using wireless vision sensor network that captures and processes the real-time video image to obtain the traffic flow rate and vehicle speeds along different urban roadways. This system will display the traffic states on the front roadways that can guide the drivers to select the right way and avoid potential traffic congestions. On t...

This paper presents a vehicle occlusion identification system based on the perceptive characters of a roadway. To tracking the vehicles, two stages are devised, initial parameter setting stage and occlusion handling stage. In the initial stage, a background extracting method is adopted to obtain the first clean background. Then, a road detection algorithm is used for finding the vanishing point...

Interactivity has become a major consideration in the development of a contemporary art practice that engages with the proliferation of computer based technologies.

This report presents enhancements to STRUCTVIEW, a vehicle-based system for the measurement of roadway structure profiles. This second-generation system uses a scanning laser rangefinder to measure various structure and roadway features from a vehicle traveling at highway speed. Measurement capabilities include horizontal and vertical clearances, which can be used to support issuing permits bas...