in the past, forest road network designing was mainly done for its main goals-management and exploitation. this study was performed to pay attention for multilateral goals of forest roads, especially its role in forest villages’ development, in estakhr-posht of neka (6 villages) in series 2, section 6 of neka-zalem rood forest management plan. at first, constructed forest roads and suggested ro...

This paper introduces a new wavelet transform based method of road centerline extraction from high resolution remote sensing images. In the one dimensional case, we characterize different kinds of sudden changes of signals by comparing the magnitudes of the local extreme values of the wavelet transforms under different dilation scales of the same wavelet. The platform-like signals, which come f...

When driving on lower-category Dutch rural roads without any delineation, drivers are likely to drift off the road with their right-side wheels, thus incurring damage to the pavement edge or even leading to accidents. In two experiments, two types of road-edge delineation, with continuous or dashed edge lines, were compared with two control roads without lines or with only a dashed line on the ...

Video analytics is emerging as a high potential area supplementing intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) with wide ranging applications from traffic flow analysis to surveillance. Object detection and classification, as a sub part of a video analytical system, could potentially help transportation agencies to analyze and respond to traffic incidents in real time, plan for possible future ca...

One of the risks recognized by relevant authorities is the risk of outsourcing ITS projects. The purpose of this study was to design and explain the pattern of determining the critical success factors in outsourcing large-scale ITS projects in the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization). This study was performed using qualitative method. The pa...

As populations and economies expand, increasing quantities of natural resources are extracted and processed, more goods are moved, more people travel, more energy is used, and more wastes are generated. One outcome is over 800 million motor vehicles operating in the world today, consuming around 40 million barrels per day of petroleum, producing about half the urban pollution, and emitting over...

After having designed control systems for real autonomous cars in an urban environment using straight lines as reference [2], we are now trying to build a fuzzy control system based on clothoids [3], the curve used in roads and train tracks. This paper proposes a method based on soft computing and upgraded using genetic algorithms. Both sets of simulations are shown and compared.

150. Changes in Nursing home Reimbursement Associated with Improvement of Antibiogram Data in an Urban Community Hospital Kevin Mcdonough, BS, PharmD, MPA; Samya Shafi, MD; Elizabeth MammenPrasad, MD; Diana Finkel, DO; Pharmacy, Cardinal Health. Pharm. Services, East Orange, NJ; East Orange General Hospital, Butler, NJ; East Orange General Hospital, Irvington, NJ; Cross Roads Medical, Clifton, NJ