Biogenic fraction of airborne PM10 which includes bacteria, viruses, fungi and pollens, has been proposed as one the potential causes toxicity. The present study aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding microbial community variations associated PM10, their main local sources in surrounding environment three urban sites Rome, characterized by differential pollution rate: green area, reside...

This paper reports the findings from a study aimed at examining the effectiveness of shoulder rumble strips in reducing run-off-the-road (ROR) crashes on two-lane rural highways using the empirical Bayes (EB) before-and-after analysis method. Specifically, the study analyzed the effects of traffic volume, roadway geometry and paved right shoulder width on the effectiveness of shoulder rumble st...

Mining is a dust prone occupation and almost every major process in mining contributes to the atmospheric load of suspended particulate matter. Prolonged exposure of this dust is known to cause various respiratory diseases including deadly pneumoconiosis among the miners. The Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad has contributed significantly in the area of dust assessment and ...

Detecting road potholes and road roughness levels is key to road condition monitoring, which impacts transport safety and driving comfort. We propose a crowdsourcing-based road surface monitoring system, simply called CRSM. CRSM can effectively detect road potholes and evaluate road roughness levels using hardware modules mounted on distributed vehicles. These modules use low-end accelerometers...

The real title of many history books is actually the subtitle, while colorful phrase before colon merely decorative. Examples that come to mind include Blood in Water, Our Beloved Kin, and What Hath God Wrought, titles barely hint at what lies between book covers. Not so with Richard DeLuca's Paved Roads Public Money: Connecticut Transportation Age Internal Combustion. This does deal broadly tr...

The main aspect of maintaining the roads and highways' durability long life is to detect potholes restore them. A huge number accidents occur on highways due pothole. It also causes financial loss vehicle owners by damaging wheel flat tire. For strategies road management system ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) service, it one major tasks quickly precisely potholes. To solve this problem,...

The appearance of roads in northern Africa differs from that of roads, e.g., in central Europe, which most of the approaches for automated road extraction in literature focus on. In this paper we propose a road model for areas with different road appearance in IRS satellite image data with a panchromatic resolution of 5 m and 20 m multispectral resolution. We model areas where water makes agric...