144 Abstract— Every year, innumerable road accidents and deaths take place due to distracted driving. Large number of studies shows mobile phone usage while driving was the major reason for distracted driving. With the aim of preventing road accidents due to mobile phone usage while driving, we propose a highly efficient automatic electronic system for early detection of incoming or outgoing ca...

A simple, but realistic, model of an autonomous emergency brake (AEB) system was studied. Using Matlab, the model was applied to 543 car‐to‐pedestrian and 607 car‐to‐bicyclist real‐world collisions gathered from the highly detailed German In‐Depth Accident Study Pre‐Crash Matrix (GIDAS PCM) and weighted for representativeness. All collisions were to the front of the car. The aim was ...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) are an upcoming technology that allow vehicles and road-side infrastructure to communicate to increase traffic efficiency and safety. To enable cooperative awareness, vehicles continually broadcast messages containing their location. These messages can be received by anyone, jeopardizing location privacy. A misconception is that such attacks are only po...

Emergency control systems influence the design, development, and maintenance of public infrastructure in a significant manner. These systems have helped to restore the infrastructure and in times prevent damages in cases of crisis. Road transportation system is an important part of public infrastructure and is one of the critical assets of a nation. Recovering from the emergency situations on t...

A realistic rescue simulation method with consideration of road network restrictions is proposed. Decision making and emergency communication system play important roles in rescue process when emergency situations happen. The rescue process will be more effective if we have appropriate decision making method and accessible emergency communication system. In this paper, we propose centralized re...

Response times for pre-hospital emergency care may be improved with the use of algorithms that analyzes historical patterns in incident location and suggests optimal places for pre-positioning of emergency response units. We will develop such an algorithm based on cluster analysis and test whether it leads to significant improvement in mileage when compared to actual historical data of dispatch...

Nacrtak Earthwork usually represents the largest cost component in the construction of low-volume forest roads. Accurate estimates of earthwork volume are essential to forecast construction costs and improve the financial control of road construction operations. Traditionally, earthwork volumes are estimated using methods that consider ground data obtained from survey stations along road grade ...

The road network optimization problem is one of the most difficult and challenging problems in transport planning. Most of the research in this area has focused on finding an optimal solution in order to minimize the total travel cost in the network with given demand from each origin to each destination, while accounting for different route characteristics in the network. In this paper, we deve...

Data on road traffic accident (RTA) injuries and their outcome are scarce in Pakistan. This study assessed patterns of RTA injuries reported in Rawalpindi city using standard surveillance methods. All RTA injury patients presenting to emergency departments of 3 tertiary care facilities from July 2007 to June 2008 were included. RTA injuries (n = 19 828) accounted for 31.7% of all injuries. Amon...