The objective of this study is to investigate the determinants of mean trip distance traveled by different mode types. The study uses data from the Hamilton CMA in Canada, and multilevel models to investigate demographic aging factors, gender differentials, and neighbourhood attributes on distance traveled. The results of the study validate previous findings regarding the decline in distance tr...

This paper describes our first step for advances in humanmachine interactive systems for in-vehicle environments of the UTDrive project. UTDrive is part of an on-going international collaboration to collect and research rich multi-modal data recorded for modeling behavior while the driver is interacting with speech-activated systems or performing other secondary tasks. A simultaneous second goa...

Monitor for safe operation of the bus is one of the main content of the intelligent transportation system (ITS). Among them, the real-time safety monitoring for driving behavior is a hotspot of research in this field, based on the traditional monitoring means such as video, thermal infrared, there exist some problems, especially under the condition of insufficient light at night and the car cro...

in many countries road crashes are the main cause of fatal accidents related to job. the aim of our study was to characterize a population of iranian professional drivers with regard to history of drivers’ road crash incidents and some occupational factors. using swedish version of the nordic questionnaire information about musculoskeletal pain prevalence in last 12 months, demographic features...

Almost all studies of sleepy driving are carried out in driving simulators and with monotonous road conditions (no interaction with other cars). The present study investigated indicators of sleepy driving in a more challenging scenario after a night awake. 17 participants drove a high fidelity moving base driving simulator experiment while sleepiness was monitored physiologically and behavioura...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between occupational cognitive failures (OCFs) and unsafe behaviors, accidents and driving offences among municipal bus drivers in Tehran, Iran. METHODS Systematic random sampling was used to select 190 drivers from 3 transport and traffic Tehran districts. Data were collected with the occupational cognitive failure questionnaire...

For an automatic steering problem of a city bus the reference maneuvers and speciications are introduced. The robustness problem arises from large variations in velocity, mass, and road-tire contact. Two controller structures with feedback of the lateral displacement and the yaw rate are introduced: a linear controller and a nonlinear controller. The controller parameters are rst hand-tuned and...

The Itanium processor cartridge is a packaging optimization for electrical and thermal performance in a server environment. The 3-in. × 5-in. cartridge contains the Itanium CPU, up to 4 megabytes of level-3 (L3) cache, an innovative power delivery scheme, and an integrated vapor chamber thermal spreading lid for removing power. Cartridges and a chip set can be ganged electrically by means of a ...

This article presents information on bus collisions from the National Transit Database (NTD) and discusses implications of the findings on the design of transit collision warning systems. A total of 2,405 major transit bus collisions were reported in 2002 and 2003 that resulted in more than $15 million in property damage, 145 fatalities, and more than 8,000 injuries. According to the NTD, front...