The reported study employed a virtual reality (VR) system, using a head mounted display (HMD), to investigate road crossing behavior in children and young adults. Younger children (aged 5-9 years) made the greatest number of unsafe road crossings and the oldest participants (aged >19 years) the fewest. Overall performance was better (fewer unsafe road crossings) in uniform speed than uniform di...

Road disturbances can influence wildlife health by spreading disease agents and hosts or by generating environmental conditions that sustain these agent and host populations. I evaluated field patterns of trematode infections in snails inhabiting ponds at varying distances from the Dalton Highway, a wilderness road that intersects northern Alaska. I also assessed the relationships between trema...

Objective Poor access to a primary care physician may lead to poor control of risk factors for disease. This study investigated whether geographic access to a primary care physician was related to ischemic heart disease and stroke mortality. Methods Road-distances from the centroids of the basic unit blocks of the 2010 Japanese Census to the nearest primary care facilities in Hokkaido, northe...

BACKGROUND Physical activity is an important determinant of health. Walking is the most common physical activity performed by adults and the presence of sidewalks along roads is a determinant of walking. Geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to measure sidewalks; however, GIS sidewalk data are difficult to access. The purpose of this study was to present a new GIS method for measurin...

In this work, a novel histogram comparison based road surface detection approach which can be used in advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) is proposed. The proposed method employs a lane detection approach to decide vanishing line. After the vanishing line is obtained, only the region below this point is processed. At the next stage, center of gravity (CoG) values of 1×k sized regions sel...

this research was aimed to investigate the condition of the existing roads and designing road network based on forest management plan at armardah, baneh. using analytical hierarchy process (ahp) method, the important layers of slope, aspect, forest type and distance to villages and resorts, were weighted and ranked. maps were produced to weighted layers generated in gis to find suitable regions...

distinguishing the susceptible areas to landslide using different landslide susceptibility mapping (lsm) models is one of the primitive and basic works to reduce probable damages and reduce risk. the main purpose of this research is the efficiency evaluation of four methods including information value (winf), valuing area accumulation (wa), analytical hierarchy process (ahp), kopta-joshi propos...

This paper describes a response acquisition system composed of some spindle accelerometers and a time synchronized on-board GPS receiver developed in order to collect the dynamic response of vehicle riding on an unpaved road. A method of time-space conversion for calculating the response spectrum is proposed to eliminate the adverse effect of time-varying speed, based on the transform from the ...

Background; Contamination of water and soil through non-point sources such as road runoff causes environmental concern. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of Zanjan – Chavarzagh road on the total organic carbon (TOC) content of sediments in tributaries and the river that lead to Taham Lake. Methods; In tributaries and the river 69 soil and sediment samples were taken and the Tota...

Today there is consensus concerning the road traffic's role as a metal source. However, there are so far only a few studies which focus on the road side immission patterns regarding distance from roads, and especially in combination with the leachability of heavy metals down the soil profile. In this study, the aim was to analyse concentrations of traffic related metals in road side soils, at d...