A closed-loop drive–vehicle–road–environment system (DVRES) model was established using Adams/Car and Matlab/Simulink. Dynamic responses of lateral tire forces based on tire–road side friction and road geometric characteristics are used to investigate vehicle side slip for geometric design safety estimation. The root mean square, the maximum values of lateral tire forces, comfort limit on curve...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this study is to present an outline and the principles of Poland's road safety strategic programming as it has developed over the last 25 years since the first Integrated Road Safety System with a strong focus on Sweden's "Vision Zero". RECENT FINDINGS Countries that have successfully improved road safety have done so by following strategies centred around the ide...

This paper summarises findings on the road safety performance and bus incidents in Melbourne along roads where bus priority measures had been applied. Results from an Empirical Bayes safety evaluation showed a 14% reduction in accidents (significant at 90% level). An empirical analysis of the incident types revealed significant changes in the proportion of incidents involving buses hitting stat...

Correspondence: Dr. N. Mittal, E-mail: [email protected] Globalization has brought India into the forefront of progress. This development has provided a substantial economic stimulus to enhance progress across India which includes enabling people to afford cars and increase their movement on the roads. Various multinational companies including motor vehicle manufacturers have created estab...

In China, traffic accident data is published annually by the Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security [1]. Accidents without casualties are usually not included. To gain a complete understanding and reliable insight of Shanghai traffic accidents, the project team collected the original accidents records on 192 Shanghai roads between 1-1-2009 and 12-31-2009. The o...

Vehicle operating speed measured on roadways is a critical component for a host of analysis in the transportation field including transportation safety, traffic flow modeling, roadway geometric design, vehicle emissions modeling, and road user route decisions. The current research effort contributes to the literature on examining vehicle speed on urban roads methodologically and substantively. ...

among the various complex and challenging tasks of upcoming road vehicles, one is road detection or road boundaries detection. Many people die every year in roadway departure crashes caused by driver inattention in most of the cases. Lane detection systems are helpful in avoiding these accidents as safety is the major purpose of these systems. Such systems have the objective to detect the lane ...

The recently published World Health Organisation strategy document on road safety starts with the startling statistic that over 1.2 million people die each year on the world’s roads and, not surprisingly lowand middle-income countries have much higher road traffic fatality rates than high-income countries. Almost half of those who die on the roads are pedestrians, cyclists or users of motoriz...

Automated systems for road crack detection are extremely important in road maintenance for vehicle safety and traveler’s comfort. Emerging cracks in roads need to be detected and accordingly repaired as early as possible to avoid further damage thus reducing rehabilitation cost. In this paper, a robust method for Gabor filter parameters optimization for automatic road crack detection is discuss...

Driving requires effective coordination of visual, motor, and cognitive skills. Visual skills are pushed to their limit at night by decreased illumination and by disabling glare from oncoming headlights. High intensity discharge (HID) headlamps project light farther down roads, improving their owner's driving safety by increasing the time available for reaction to potential problems. Glare is p...