Low-cost smartphone-based speed surveying methods in proximity to traffic calming devices

Of Traffic Calming Devices on Crosstown Road Safety

Use of speed profile as surrogate measure: Effect of traffic calming devices on crosstown road safety performance.

Urban road safety management is usually characterized by the lack of sufficient, good quality crash data and low budgets to obtain it even though many traffic accidents occur there. For example, 54 percent of road crashes in Spain take place in urban areas, and 10 percent of urban fatal crashes occur on crosstown roads, which are rural roads that traverse small communities. Traffic calming meas...

Low Cost Mobile Surveying Technique with Gpssit

Since GPS technology which is intensively used in surveying application today, can not directly be employed to measure some details such as building boundaries, it is still a necessity to establish control points on the ground and coordinate them by GPS and then measure the details by a total station set up on these control points. Establishment of control points on the ground and their compuls...

Traffic congestion control using Smartphone sensors based on IoT Technology

Traffic congestion in road networks is one of the main issues to be addressed, also vehicle traffic congestion and monitoring has become one of the critical issues in road transport. With the help of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), current information of traffic can be used by control room to improve the traffic efficiency. The suggested system utilize technologies for real-time collect...

Cardiac surgical theatre traffic: time for traffic calming measures?

Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a significant cause of postoperative complications. The risk of death from a medical error in a UK hospital remains one in 300. Increased theatre traffic has been identified as a modifiable determinant of SSI and surgical error. This cross-sectional study for the first time describes the pattern of theatre traffic in a UK cardiac centre. An electronic door...