This study was designed to explore the combinational effect of roadway and traffic characteristics national rural roads on fatal serious-injury crashes in Namibia. Namibia, like many other countries Southern Africa, experiences high numbers high-severity crashes, particularly its road network. The applied Generalised Poisson regression models analyse dataset. results indicate that are almost al...

Lane detection is an essential component of Advanced Driver Assistance System. The cognition on the roads is increasing day by day due to increase in the four wheelers on the road. The cognition coupled with ignorance towards road rules is contributing to road accidents. The lane marking violence is one of the major causes for accidents on highways in India. In this work we have designed and im...

This study tested the effects of lane width, lane position and edge shoulder width on driving behavior for a three-lane underground urban expressway. A driving simulator was used with 24 volunteer test subjects. Five lane widths (2.85, 3.00, 3.25, 3.50, and 3.75 m) and three shoulder widths (0.50, 0.75, and 1.00 m) were studied. Driving speed, lane deviation and subjective perception of driving...

Rural highway is the foundation of highway network construction and the important bridge for balancing urban and rural harmonious development. Rural highway has the basic, pilot and driving function to new rural construction. This paper took a sampling survey on 173 villages in Hebei Province. According to the 687 questionnaires, this paper set up an evaluation system of the rural highway const...

Lane detection and tracking are very crucial treatments in lane departure warning systems as they help the vehicle-mounted system to keep its lane. In this context, the authors’ work aims to develop vision-based lane detection and tracking method to detect and track lane limits in highways and main roads. The authors’ contribution focuses on the detection step. By exploiting the fact that, in a...

Horizontal alignment is a major roadway characteristic used in safety and operational evaluations of many facility types. The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) uses this characteristic in crash prediction models for rural two-lane highways, freeway segments, and freeway ramps/C-D roads. Traffic simulation models use this characteristic in their processes on almost all types of facilities. However, a ...

The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) is undertaking a research program to study the visibility of retroreflective raised pavement markers (RRPMs). The focus of the initial effort is to determine the relative luminance of RRPMs and pavement markings (PMs) needed to produce adequate guidance on rural two-lane roadways at night. A driving simu...

The provision of lane-level travel time information can enable accurate traffic control and route guidance in urban roads with distinctive conditions among lanes. However, few studies the literature have been conducted to estimate distributions. This study proposes a new vehicle re-identification (V-ReID) method for estimating distributions using video images from widely deployed surveillance c...

This paper describes an approach of lane boundary detection especially for country roads elds by artiicial vision. It uses statistical criteria such as energy, homogeneity, contrast etc. to distinguish between road and non-road-area. To model the borders of the road and to accelerate the method, we combine it with a model based image segmentation technique. The model is adapted to the found lan...