Automobiles have increased urban mobility, but traffic accidents also increased. Therefore, road safety is a significant concern involving academics and government. Transit studies are the main supply for studying accidents, congestion, flow traffic, allowing understanding of flow. They require special equipment (sensors) to measure car’s speed. With technological advances, artificial intellige...

On a multi-lane roadway, systematic lane-changes can seriously disrupt traffic flow and cause capacity reductions. Therefore it is important to understand the characteristics of lanechanging traffic flow. In our previous study, a new variable, lane-changing intensity, was theoretically derived by doubling the contribution to the total density of a lane-changing vehicle during its lane-changing ...

In this paper, we study a two-lane totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) coupled with random attachment and detachment of particles (Langmuir kinetics) in both lanes under open boundary conditions. Our model can describe the directed motion of molecular motors, attachment and detachment of motors, and free inter-lane transition of motors between filaments. In this paper, we focus ...

TG572 RFLP Probe: Five primers were designed around the RFLP probe on chromosome 7: P572F1, P572F2, P572F3, P572R1, and P572R2 (Table 1). All possible primer combinations produced a strong band with Heinz 1706 DNA between 600 bp and 1000 bp (Fig. 2). All of the primer combinations produced single bands with the exception of P572F2/P572R1, which produced two bands one at 400 bp and one at 900 bp...

embryonic RNA 0–7 h of development), two other parameters were important to obtain reproducible results. First, RNA quality was vital to maximize poly(A) tail saturation by oligo d(T) and to minimize amplification background. Among the RNA extraction methods tested, we obtained optimal results (data not shown) using RNA extracted with TRIZOL ® (Invitro-gen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), which was then su...

Lane changing manoeuvres of heavy vehicles have significant influence on surrounding traffic characteristics due to the physical effects that the heavy vehicles impose on surrounding vehicles. These effects are the result of heavy vehicles’ length, size, weight and the limitations in their manoeuvrability. Due to the importance of heavy vehicle lane changing manoeuvres, this paper presents an e...

Modeling driving behavior and emulating driver control strategy is one of essential parts for risk assessment and auxiliary control in the driver assistance system and vehicle active safety system. In this paper, we propose a proposed model is intuitive and can clearly describe the habit and randomness of the lane-change behavior with limit parameters. Especially, by using the proposed model an...

Drivers continuously evaluate the surrounding traffic and the roadway environment, and make decisions about lanes and travel speed. The objective of this thesis is to develop a lane changing model that can be used in microscopic traffic simulation models to capture drivers' lane changing behavior. Lane change is modeled as a sequence of four steps: decision to consider a lane change, choice of ...