Energy is an important aspect of our everyday life. The resources we use are limited whereas the population consuming same increasing day by day. Nowadays requirement for electricity much higher than its generation; hence main objective work to produce at low cost with no effect on environment. design a wind turbine recapture energy from vehicles highway. A considerable amount produced due pres...

This paper considers the second-best problem where not all links of a congested transportation network can be tolled. The paper builds on earlier work, in which the secondbest tax rule for this problem was derived for general static networks, so that the solution presented is valid for any graph of the network, and for any set of tolling points available on that network. An algorithm is present...

Fair sharing and efficient allocation of risks, returns and resources are considered cornerstones of Public Private Partnerships. However, allocation of certain risks, like demand risks, have emerged as pain points. This paper examines the impact of demand uncertainty on a firm’s bidding behavior. Applying econometric models, to check for inconsistencies in firm behavior, on bid data of toll ro...

Nowadays the protection of information against unauthorized disclosure, transfer, modification, or destruction, whether accidental or intentional, is a very important issue that concerns the information society. The scope of this paper is to develop a Contactless Smartcard protocol, which will be able operate securely and effectively, under a variety of attack methods. The system implements a n...

This paper investigates classification of traffic scenes in a very low bandwidth scenario, where an image should be coded by a small number of features. We introduce a novel dataset, called the FM1 dataset, consisting of 5615 images of eight different traffic scenes: open highway, open road, settlement, tunnel, tunnel exit, toll booth, heavy traffic and the overpass. We evaluate the suitability...

86 1094-7167/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS The first large-scale application of computerized signal control systems, Torontonians brag, was in Metropolitan Toronto during the early 1960s. More recently, changeable-messagesign driver information systems (such as COMPASS, www. mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass) for freeway control have been introduced in the Greater Toronto...

A license plate recognition (LPR) system is one kind of intelligent transport systems and is of considerable interest because of its potential applications to areas such as highway electronic toll collection, traffic monitoring system and so on. This paper proposes an automatic license plate recognition system for Saudi Arabian license plates. The system captures the images of the vehicles with...

This paper reviews a range of problems in the road transport field, and the potential role of the vehicular ad hoc network system (VANETs) in helping to solve them. In reality, the communications requirements vary widely from one application to the next, in terms of range, latency, and connectivity together with vehicle and roadside hardware. Applications that promise the greatest safety benefi...

New contracting approaches, such as Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are becoming quite popular all around the world to improve the delivery of infrastructure in order to provide value for money. However, the goals of the Government and the private sector may conflict with each other. Whereas the government's goal should be to maximize social welfare through increasing value for money, the pr...

Highway congestion in North America is widely responsible for polluting air, increasing noise, and wasting time spent in traffic, largely because drivers do not pay the full marginal cost of their own traveling decisions. Economists agree that a well-designed congestion pricing system can correct for these externalities, but there is widespread political and public resistance to such a plan, po...