BACKGROUND Air pollution from road traffic has been associated to an increased risk of lung cancer. Herein, we investigated the association between lung cancer mortality and residence near Italian highways or national major roads. METHODS Information on deaths for lung cancer registered from 1990 to 2010 and stratified by age, gender, and urban or rural municipality of residence at death were...

Research for advanced traveler information systems (ATIS) has been focused on urban roads. However, research for short-term traffic prediction on all categories of highways is needed, as highway agencies expect to implement intelligent transportation systems across their jurisdictions. In this study, genetic algorithms were used to design time delay neural network (TDNN) models as well as local...

As important components of intelligent transportation system, lane detection and tracking (LDT) and lane departure warning (LDW) systems have attracted great interest from the computer vision community over the past few years. Conversely, lane markings recognition (LMR) systems received surprisingly little attention. This thesis proposed a real-time lane assisting framework for intelligent vehi...

The introduction of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will have far-reaching effects on road traffic in cities and on highways.The implementation of Automated Highway Systems (AHS), possibly with a dedicated lane only for AVs, is believed to be a requirement to maximise the benefit from the advantages of AVs. We study the ramifications of an increasing percentage of AVs on the traffic system with and w...

The paper introduces novel families of cruise controllers for autonomous vehicles on lane-free ring-roads. design the is based a Control Lyapunov Function methodology with function expressed measures energy system kinetic in ways similar to Newtonian or relativistic mechanics. derived feedback laws (cruise controllers) are decentralized (per vehicle), as each vehicle determines its control inpu...

Research has shown that road lane width impacts on driver behaviour. This literature review provides guidelines to assist in the design, construction and retrofitting of urban roads to accommodate road users' safety requirements. It focuses on the impacts of lane widths on cyclists and motor vehicle safety behaviour. The literature review commenced with a search of library databases. Peer revie...