In conventional bridge health monitoring, a number of sensors are deployed on a bridge directly for detecting its various dynamic properties. This is so called “direct method”. But the drawbacks of the direct method are: laborious deployment of sensors, time-consuming, and not portable. Following the previous Yang’s works (2004) in indirect method by using a passing test vehicle as a message re...

Traffic signal light can be optimized using vehicle flow statistics obtained by Smart Video Surveillance Software (SVSS). This research focuses on efficient traffic control system by detecting and counting the vehicle numbers at various times and locations. At present, one of the biggest problems in the main city in any country is the traffic jam during office hour and office break hour. Someti...

This paper describes the development of a video-based system for traffic surveillance that works in real-time on a standard PC-platform. The main task of the system, which was developed for and in co-operation with Axicon, is to count passing vehicles to estimate traffic density. More functionality can also be developed on top of this to derive other traffic parameters. The methods use low-leve...

An experiment collected proximity data of motor traffic overtaking cycle traffic on roads with and without cycle lanes using an instrumented bicycle. The work enhances previous research which has considered the riding position of the cyclist and whether or not the cyclist was helmeted, while controlling for vehicle type. The analysis shows that significantly wider passing distances are adopted ...

With the rise of clusters as a vehicle for very-highperformance computing, an increasing emphasis is being placed upon the communication interface between each processor and the underlying network. And while many studies have explored the design of both traditional send/receive network interfaces and shared-memory designs, a third alternative — reflective memory — offers a significantly differe...