geographical bases have significant function in human settlements in terms of distribution and sustainability. thisstudy attempted to provide an insight into the role of geographical bases in rural settlement distribution in arid areas.accordingly, this study was done in the rural area of khour-biabanak, naein city in esfahan province. themethodology was that of a correlative research, to reali...

This study assessed the effect of rural-urban transportation on agricultural produce in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. Primary data obtained from 90 rural farming households were analysed using frequency count, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression analysis and mean score from a 3 point Likert type of scale. Results of the study revealed that majority of the farmers were m...

A significant proportion of people live and work in rural areas, and rural mental health is important wherever psychiatry is practised. There are inherent difficulties in conducting rural research, due in part to the lack of an agreed definition of rurality. Mental health is probably better in rural areas, with the exception of suicide, which remains highest in male rural residents. A number of...

In Minnesota, 70 percent of all intersection-related fatal crashes for the period of 2006 to 2008 occurred at rural, through/stop intersections [1]. The Minnesota Department of Transportation identified improving the design and operation of intersections as a critical emphasis area in the Minnesota Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan [2]. At these intersections, sight restrictions caused by verti...

Road junctions are important components of a road network. However, they are usually not explicitly modelled in existing road extraction approaches. In this paper, we consider road junctions as area objects with possible existence of islands in their central area and propose a level set approach for the automatic extraction of islands. A region-based method is employed to initialize the level s...

Off road ground vehicles have many potential applications, including space, defence, agriculture, mining and construction. Increased autonomy of ground vehicles will not only improve the safety of the operators but also assist in trajectory tracking. Accurate estimation of slip is essential in developing autonomous navigation strategies for mobile off road vehicles operating in unstructured ter...

We describe results on combining depth information from a laser range-finder and color and texture image cues to segment ill-structured dirt, gravel, and asphalt roads as input to an autonomous road following system. A large number of registered laser and camera images were captured at frame-rate on a variety of rural roads, allowing laser features such as 3-D height and smoothness to be correl...

Road roundabouts, as a class of road junctions, are generally not explicitly modelled in existing road extraction approaches. This paper presents a new approach for the automatic extraction of roundabouts from aerial imagery through the use of prior knowledge from an existing topographic database. The proposed snake-based approach makes use of ziplock snakes. The external force of the ziplock s...

Historical data confirm that rural roadways carry less than half of America’s traffic but account for the majority of the nation’s vehicular deaths. According to NHTSA, Wyoming has the highest crash fatality rate in the nation with a reported 2009 road death rate of 24.6 per 100,000 population, more than twice the national average of 11.0. High speed two-lane rural roads are believed to contrib...