One of the major obstacles in the process of national development, is the disruption in regional balance construct. As has been noted in some studies the existence of regional inequity leads to domination of some regions to surrounding regions and causing political and economic challenges in developing countries. And given that transportation is one of the components of region, undoubtedly equi...

Although many have advocated a systems approach in road transportation, this view has not meaningfully penetrated road safety research, practice or policy. In this study, a systems theory-based approach, Rasmussens's (1997) risk management framework and associated Accimap technique, is applied to the analysis of road freight transportation crashes. Twenty-seven highway crash investigation repor...

Transportation is basic service required by all citizens. Long route transportation is norm today for transporting goods and persons. Road transport has remained one of the important means of transportation. Increase in population and motorization in the country along with expansion of road network contributes to the number of road accidents, injuries and mortalities, as well as loss of product...

250 Word count: 5255 Text + 5 Tables + 3 Figures = 7255 Resubmission Date: November 15, 2007 Paper accepted for Presentation and Publication in the Transportation Research Record, Journal of Transportation Research Board after being presented Transportation Research Board’s 87 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2008 TRB 2008 Annual Meeting CD-ROM Paper revised from original submittal. 2 ABSTRACT...

One of the most important factors for the sustainable development of any country is the quality and efficiency of its transportation system. The principled and accurate maintenance of roads, in addition to having a major impact on budget savings, improves the quality and service levels of the transportation system. For this reason, road management and maintenance are the main pillars of the tra...

This paper is the report of a study on the improvement of road infrastructure in Nigeria using the MinnaBida road as a case study. The N1.414 trillion which has been appropriated for the road sector in Nigeria since 1999 is seen as an acknowledgement of the crucial role of road transportation in national development. There are views that inadequate funding has contributed substantially to the d...

Evolution of public road transportation systems requires analysis and planning tools to improve service quality. A wide range of road transportation simulation tools exist with a variety of applications in planning, training and demonstration. However, few simulation models take into account traveler behaviors and vehicle operation specific to public transportation. We present in this paper a b...

The Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is an emerging new technology. Developing multi-hop routing protocols for urban VANETs is a challenging task. VANET is one of the influencing areas for the improvement of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in order to provide safety and comfort to the road users. Besides safety applications VANET also provide comfort applications to the road users. Auto...

The focus of this study is on the problems connected with road passenger transportation process performance measurement system development. Thus, the main definitions and briefly literature overview in the analyzed research area are given. Later, the main classification of road passenger transportation processes’ performance measures are developed. There are presented obtained performance analy...