The characteristics of traffic flows on signalized arterials are examined within a cellular automata micro-simulation model. The model is used to analyze arterial throughput and travel times for given densities, coordination schemes and signal spacings. A fundamental 3-D relationship between flow, density and offsets for signalized arterials is established. It is shown, in particular, that arte...

Since the last decades the availability and granularity of location-based data has been rapidly growing. Besides the proliferation of smartphones and locationbased social networks, also crowdsourcing and voluntary geographic data led to highly granular mobility data, maps and street networks. In result, location-aware, smart environments are created. The trend for personal self-optimization and...

This paper presents a novel approach to recognizing driver activities using a multi-perspective (i.e., four camera views) multi-modal (i.e., thermal infrared and color) video-based system for robust and real-time tracking of important body parts. The multi-perspective characteristics of the system provides redundant trajectories of the body parts, while the multi-modal characteristics of the sy...

As a subsystem of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), an Advanced Traveller Information System (ATIS) disseminates real-time traffic information to travellers. This paper analyses traffic flows data, describes methodology of traffic flows data processing and visualization in digital ArcGIS online maps. Calculation based on real time traffic data from equipped traffic sensors in Vilnius ...

The study outlined in this article drew on Elijah Anderson's (1999) code of the street perspective to examine the impact of neighborhood street culture on violent delinquency. Using data from more than 700 African American adolescents, we examined 1) whether neighborhood street culture predicts adolescent violence above and beyond an adolescent's own street code values and 2) whether neighborho...

Many day-to-day situations involve decision making: for example, a taxi company has some transportation tasks to be carried out, a large firm has to distribute a lot of complicated tasks among its subdivisions or subcontractors, and an air-traffic controller has to assign time slots to planes that are landing or taking off. Intelligent agents can aid in this decision-making process. Agents are ...

Dynamic traffic assignment through analytical modeling and optimization has been widely accepted by the IVHS R&D community as a promising traffic control tool for understanding and relieving traffic congestion on conventional highways and city streets. Due to the completely controlled nature of AHS traffic, dynamic assignment of AHS traffic is even more promising. One added dimension of complex...

BACKGROUND There is evidence of a high prevalence of prescription opioid (PO) and crack use among street drug users in Toronto. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe drug use behaviours and preferences as well as the social and environmental context surrounding the use of these drugs among young and old street-based drug injection drug users (IDUs). METHODS In-depth interviews...

Vehicular traffic congestion is a well-known economic and social problem generating significant costs and safety challenges, and increasing pollution in the cities. Current intelligent transport systems and vehicular networking technologies rely heavily on the supporting network infrastructure which is still not widely available. This paper contributes towards the development of distributed and...

“a city can be read through its streets”. stéphane douady, professor of dynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems in paris diderot university began his speech with these words. he continued by explaining the significance of the street structure: “when we think of a city, we first think of the houses. while they can be replaced when destroyed or abandoned, the streets remain stable”. dr. douady’s m...