Technological developments in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have created opportunities to allow groups of vehicles travel close proximity, through methods known as platooning. There are potential benefits from platooning terms fuel consumption, a reduction aerodynamic drag for trailing the platoon; however, it is still not understood whether these remain when platoon subject crosswind...

The inefficiencies arising from increased freight road traffic in the late 1990s in Mexico have posed to planners engaged in the road provision the goal to find new control measures to reduce the adverse impacts, such as road damage and overloading. In the 1990s, road freight traffic in Mexico altered notably after the deregulation of the road freight industry in 1989; the North American Free T...

In this paper, lorries in motorway scenes and their use in vanishing point estimation is studied. Lorries naturally arise in motorway scenes and provide a powerful way to compute three orthogonal vanishing points. Lorries are therefore so interesting, because features, e.g. blob centroid, on usual vehicles do only provide one vanishing point in traffic direction. Also the background of motorway...

of the 5,655 accidents with casualty that had occurred during 1973 in teheran, 4,936 or 87. 3% were caused by the negligence on the part of the drivers. the most accident producing driving middle-aged men of 30- 39 years, who had recently acquired driving permit and were wage earners as drivers in the city of tehran. alcohol intoxication as the cause of the accident had been recorded in only o....

background: taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. they are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

Background: Taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. They are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. Noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. Protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the level of awareness and attitudes towards face and organ transplant among the people of Kumasi, Ghana. DESIGN An observational study was employed, where participants were randomly selected for the study. PARTICIPANTS The respondents were commuters waiting to board public vehicles at the Kejetia lorry station, Bantama/Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital...

Abstract Road accident has become a serious problem of concern due to the increasing trend occurrences in line with increase number registered vehicles Malaysia year by year. Causes road accidents may come from various factors. Information on causes is important knowledge assisting responsible bodies theory and framework for establishing appropriate regulation, policy as well intervention plann...

conclusions despite relatively high prevalence of smoking than drug use in zahedan drivers, there are few reports of these behaviors. laboratory tests cannot suitably measure substance use due to their interference with other substances. considering adverse effects of smoking on health and driving, it is necessary to train drivers to reduce or stop smoking during driving. results generally, fou...