There is a danger in looking at highway design strictly from the viewpoint of aesthetics without indicating how this relates to other phases of design. An optimum design is only possible when the stand­ ards of structural design, geometric design, and aesthetic design are integrated and in perfect balance with each other. However, not being qualified to discuss structural or geometric design, n...

Popularized by the long short-term memory (LSTM), multiplicative gates have become a standard means to design artificial neural networks with intentionally organized information flow. Notable examples of such architectures include gated recurrent units (GRU) and highway networks. In this work, we first focus on the evaluation of each of the classical gated architectures for language modeling fo...

In Japan, disputes over highway projects from residents are now drawing more attention than ever. However, these disputes are rarely resolved through conventional processes using the decide-announce-defend approach. In many cases, dissatisfied opponents try to impede their implementation through litigation and physical obstruction. In the United States, oppositions against interstate highway pr...

With the rapid development of national economic construction, traffic network is extending continuously, and the scope of the highway construction is gradually shifting from plain to the mountains. However, weathered rock occupies heavily along highway in mountainous area, and high quality subgrade filling is extremely short, thus a large amount of subgrade filling needed for subgrade high-fill...

W ith the advent of the automobile as a mode of transportation late in the nineteenth century, a new phenomenon, the motor vehicle acci­ dent, appeared on the American scene. While the motor vehicle was in its early stages of development, the problem was not serious. How­ ever, as the volume of cars on the highways increased, the number of accidents increased also; the problem began to assume g...

Speed, flow and volume are the most important elements of the traffic flow. In this study, the speed-density regression models are compared between congested city road and the tolled highway based on traffic flow data on Beijing Third Ring Road (BTRR) and Jing Jin Tang Highway (JJTH) in China, which are collected by road detectors on each road. The speed-density regression curves are analyzed b...

With the continuing growth of highway construction and vehicle use expansion all over the world, highway vehicle traffic rule violation (TRV) detection has become more and more important so as to avoid traffic accidents and injuries in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Since very few works have contributed to solve the TRV detection problem by movi...

As a part of the theme of this session, which is concerned with the role of highways in the national transportation scene, your program committee wanted to have discussed some of the administrative aspects of highway transportation. In particular, it desired that comment be made on the problem of “Maintaining Effective Highway Adminis­ tration.” This is, I assume, subject to interpretation. If ...

The need for cooperation in the planning of metropolitan trans­ portation facilities has taken on added significance as a result of the Interstate Road Program with its emphasis on arterial improvement in urban areas. A meeting to discuss this problem more fully was held in October 1958 at Syracuse University. This meeting, the National Conference on Highways and Urban Redevelopment (more commo...

This Transportation Research Board publication contains the following papers: Assessment of Existing General Purpose Data Bases for Highway Safety Analysis, K.K. Mak, J.G. Viner, and L.I. Griffin, III; Accident Data as a Tool for Highway Risk Management, D.S. Turner and C.W. Colson; Generalized Loglinear Models of Truck Accident Rates, F.F. Saccomanno and C. Buyco; Estimation of Wet Pavement Ex...