Accident statistics show a relatively low level of traffic safety in Jordan compared to developed countries producing large socio-economic losses. The number of accidents has increased five old-fold between 1995 and 2009 reaching 122,793 in 2009 with an estimated cost of JOD 336 million ( equivalent to about $504 million). This study investigates the present and future magnitude of road traffic...

Forest fragmentation, the process of changing original large and intact forest patches into smaller and isolated areas, significantly influences the balance of surface physical environment, biodiversity, and species richness. Sufficient knowledge of forest fragmentation is necessary to maintain ecological balance and promote sustainable resource utilization. This study combines remote sensing, ...

A set of GIS tools has been developed (Road Sediment Analysis Model, RSAM) to analyze and quantify the impacts of forest roads on forested watersheds. RSAM is organized into three modules. In the first module sediment production for each road segment is calculated from slope, length, road surface condition and road side drain vegetation. A GPS gathered road condition inventory provides surface ...

Road detection is still full of challenge for a small ground mobile robot with limited load capacity and computing resources which works in complex outdoor environment. This paper proposes a road detection method based on fuzzy support vector machine with on-line updating and retraining strategy. The algorithm extracts multi feature in image and trains a fuzzy support vector machine road classi...

Road trauma is an emergent global issue. There is huge disparity between the population affected by road trauma and the resource allocation. If the current trend continues, a predicted extra 5 million lives will be lost in this decade. This article aims to create an awareness of the scale of the problem of road trauma and the inequality in the resources available to address this problem. It als...

University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, 751 General Services Building, Edmonton, Alberta T5H 4R1, Canada Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Forest Management Branch, 9920-108 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2M4, Canada c Isabella Point Forestry Ltd., 331 Roland Road, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia V8K 1V1, Canada University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, 442...

Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, PO Box 1047 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway Department of Land Resources and Tourism, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China c State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, 430072, China d Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Forestry Ecological Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, No. 19 Xinjiekouwai Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100875, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. A11 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 10010...

a Department of Economics, Lingnan University, Dorothy YL Wong Building, 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong SAR b Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No Jia11, Datun Road, Anwai, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China c Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford Universit...

a LimnoTech, 501 Avis Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA b School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 440 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA c Graham Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, 625 East Liberty Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48193, USA d Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, School of Natura...