Transportation infrastructure is a major source of stormwater runoff that can alter hydrology and contribute significant loading of nutrients, sediment, and other pollutants to surface waters. These increased loads can contribute to impairment of streams in developed areas and ultimately to Lake Champlain. In this study we selected six watersheds that represent a range of road types (gravel and...

Automakers are trying to make vehicles more intelligent and safe by embedding processors which can be used to implement “by-wire” applications for taking smart decisions on the road or assisting the driver in doing the same. Given this proliferation, there is a need to minimize the computational capacity required without affecting the performance and safety of the applications. The latter is es...

Intelligent Vehicles, as a main part of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), will have great impact on transportation in near future. They would be able to understand their immediate environment and also communicate with other traffic participants such as other vehicles, infrastructures and traffic management centres. Intelligent vehicles could navigate autonomously in highway and urban sc...

Traffic congestion has been a major problem on roads around the world. In addition, there is increase in volume of traffic vehicle density at a steady rate. Thus traffic on major roads has to be controlled to keep the traffic flowing at an acceptable rate. Several schemes for replacing the predominantly used Round Robin (RR) scheme for reducing congestion at traffic junctions have been proposed...

Lane detection problem has been considered as an important computer vision task in autonomous driving. While it received massive research attention the literature, is not yet fully solved. In this paper, we present a comprehensive literature review for lane detection, especially those with deep learning models. The latest collection of datasets presented. We further fill gap by proposing novel ...

– Motivated by an analogy with traffic, we simulate two species of particles ('vehicles'), moving stochastically in opposite directions on a two-lane ring road. Each species prefers one lane over the other, controlled by a parameter 0 ≤ b ≤ 1 such that b = 0 corresponds to random lane choice and b = 1 to perfect 'laning'. We find that the system displays one large cluster ('jam') whose size inc...

Ahmad, Shaikh.M.S.C.E.,Purdue University, December 2014.Capacity-Related Driver Behavior on Modern Roundabouts Built on High-Speed Roads. Major Professor: Andrew Tarko. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the factors that affect capacity-related driver behavior on modern roundabouts built on high-speed roads. The capacity of roundabouts is strongly affected by the behavior of driver...

Past research has showed that mortality salience (MS) increases reckless driving and speeding when the individual perceives driving to be relevant to his or her self-esteem. We claimed that drivers’ control orientations also play a significant role in the relationship between MS and speeding. We hypothesized that both a general desirability of control and traffic locus of control (T-LOC) would ...