Speed humps used as a tool of traffic calming technique that applied to force drivers to reduce their vehicle’ speeds at some locations. For developed countries, the implementations of speed humps are often used within residential areas as well as at locations of schools crossing.  For developing countries (e.g. Iraq), speed humps are used even at urban and urban highways.   This paper investig...

Traffic simulation represents an effective tool for evaluating the suggested alternatives to enhance traffic conditions prior to their application in real sites. U-turn sections represent examples of the complicated sections that cannot be analyzed properly without applying microsimulation approach.  Recently, in Iraq, speed humps were applied in prior to the merging locations and U-turn sectio...

BACKGROUND Evidence related to the effectiveness of speed humps on reducing pedestrian-motor vehicle collisions (PMVC) has been conflicting. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between speed hump installation and changes in PMVC rates in Toronto, Canada. METHODS Speed humps were mapped along with police-reported pedestrian collisions from 2000-2011 and built environment...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the protective effectiveness of speed humps in reducing child pedestrian injuries in residential neighborhoods. METHODS We conducted a matched case-control study over a 5-year period among children seen in a pediatric emergency department after being struck by an automobile. RESULTS A multivariate conditional logistic regression analysis showed that speed humps were ...

− In this study we present a dynamic calibration of an automobile bus. The characterization consists of measuring the vertical acceleration signals during passage over a short bump. Non-parametric identification is then adopted to determine digital ‘vehicle’ filters, which mimics the dynamic behavior of the bus. Such filters are required for performing our earlier presented synthesis and analys...