Inter-vehicle communications (IVC) rely on frequent data exchange among vehicles to facilitate road safety, congestion control, route planning, etc. The wireless connectivity among vehicles unfortunately poses a challenge for securing large-scale deployment of IVC systems. To successfully mitigate threats such as worm spreading in IVC systems, we describe the potential worm spreading from traff...

The ambient air quality monitoring was carried during the May 2003 to April 2004 along the (NH-6) passing through Jalgaon city. The average concentration of SOx 64 microg/m3, NOx 58 microg/ m3, particulates (> 10 micro) 515 microg/m3 and respirable dust particulates 224 microg/m3 was reported at Prabhat during the study period (May 2003-April 2004). This location represents the major highway cr...

The southwest Kansas region is one of the centers in the United States for the production of processed beef and related industries. Trucks utilized to support these industries cause noteworthy damages to the regional highway pavements. The objective of this research project was to determine the pavement damage cost of a typical highway section in southwest Kansas attributed to the truck traffic...

Reliable prediction of traffic loads is essential for bridge planning and design. In the study, an improved unbiased Grey Markov forecasting model is applied to predict traffic loads on highway bridges. The comparison between the predicted results and existing practical measurements indicates that high accuracy can be achieved by using the developed model for bridge load prediction. The develop...

This paper evaluates various options for addressing traffic problems on the Malahat highway corridor, north of Victoria, British Columbia. A combination of transit and vanpool service improvements, support strategies, and incremental roadway improvements is by far the most cost effective and beneficial option. Current planning tends to undervalue this approach by ignoring some costs of highway ...

Efficiently computing fast paths in large scale dynamic road networks (where dynamic traffic information is known over a part of the network) is a practical problem faced by several traffic information service providers who wish to offer a realistic fast path computation to GPS terminal enabled vehicles. The heuristic solution method we propose is based on a highway hierarchy-based shortest pat...

Increasing highway traffic congestion and real estate costs that limit the building of new highways has brought about a renewed interest in an Automated Highway System (AHS) where the vehicle steering task (“lateral control”) and the braking/throttle tasks (“longitudinal control”) are taken over by computers to increase the throughput of existing highways. Since safety plays a key role in the d...

With the rapid growth of highway traffic, congestion toll station has become a common phenomenon in peak hours. However, at serious impact on normal operation expressway. When queuing vehicles overflow station, queue leader will lose control, and main line be seriously disturbed. This paper analyzes causes stations, studies characteristics different channels traffic flow, then establishes flow ...

Across the nation, traffic growth and congestion continue to outpace growth in highway capacity. A large amount of this congestion occurs at intersections, rather than along the links between intersections, it is of utmost importance that traffic engineers use every available technique for improving intersection performance and safety. This paper examines the benefits of roundabouts as an alter...

To assess differences in exposure to air pollution from traffic in relation to degree of urbanization and traffic density, we measured personal and home outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) concentrations for 241 children from six different primary schools in the Netherlands. Three schools were situated in areas with varying degrees of urbanization (very urban, fairly urban, and nonurban) and three...