Vehicle crashes are amongst the major causes of mortality and results in losses of lives and properties. A large number of the vehicle crashes occur on rural roads. Accidents become more noteworthy in two-lane roads due to going and coming traffic. Therefore, prediction of crashes and their causes are considerably important to reduce the number and severity of the accidents. The safety index is...

The concept of Ford’s lane keeping sys­ tem includes two variants: The driver can select a warning function and a lane keeping function in case the vehicle leaves its current lane, known as lane keeping alert, ❶, and lane keeping aid, ❷, respectively. Both functions make use of a camera serving as a sensor for iden­ tifying the traffic lane and the lane mark­ ings. Identifying the ve hicle’s ow...

The animals were subjected to hormone treatment for 1 week. Hormones were administered either continuously via osmotic minipumps (m.p.) or intermittently by subcutaneous injections once ( 1 x s.c.) or twice (2 x s.c.) daily. Daily doses were 120 pg for GH and 100 pg for methyltrienolone, respectively. Lane I , control female; lane 2, hypophysectomized (Hx) female; lane 3, female + androgen (met...

In this paper, two formulas were chosen among those that estimate the suspendedsediment discharge in rivers. These two formulas were Lane and Kalinske and Bagnold. Forstudying and knowing the correlation between input parameters and calculated suspendedsediment discharge (CSSD), the SPSS17 software was used. Input parameters in these twoformulas were as: water velocity, water discharge, suspend...

Autonomous driver assistance system is a core component for the robust detection and tracking of lane markings on roads and pedestrian detection. The lane detection method is a major component of intelligent transport system. Lane detection helps to estimate the road geometry ahead as well as lateral position of vehicle. A fast lane detection algorithm is proposed by Hough transform which is fa...

This paper proposes a technique for unwanted lane departure detection. Initially, lane boundaries are detected using a combination of the edge distribution function and a modified Hough transform. In the tracking stage, a linear-parabolic lane model is used: in the near vision field, a linear model is used to obtain robust information about lane orientation; in the far field, a quadratic functi...

Robustly extracting the features of lane markings under different lighting and weather conditions such as shadows, glows, sunset and night is the a key technology of the lane departure warning system (LDWS). In this paper, we propose a robust lane marking feature extraction method. By useing the characteristics of the lane marking to detect candidate areas. The final lane marking features are e...

In this paper, the lane-changing time is considered in the cellular automata models for traffic flow. The lower the velocity of a vehicle, the longer the lane-changing time. The simulations are carried out in the two-lane system and the on-ramp system. When the lane-changing time is taken into account, the maximum flux per lane is reduced in the twolane system compared with the original two-lan...