Specific environmental taxes are minor in relation to fuel excise duty, road tolls and annual taxes on the ownership or use of vehicles, in terms of their cost to transport operators and users (see the OECD environmental tax data base). Although differentiation of general transport taxes on the basis of environmental performance is quite widely used to leverage vehicle purchase decisions, this ...

Private provision of public roads through build-operate-transfer (BOT) contracts is increasing around the world. Under a BOT contract, a private firm would build a road, charge tolls to road users for a period, and then transfer the road to the government. By viewing a BOT contract as a combination of three variables of concession period, road capacity and toll charge, we study optimal BOT cont...

Qasim Ali Arain Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), P.R, China Abstract— The road networks, vehicle users could enjoy numerous kind of services such as location based service in vehicle users can connected to Internet and communication of different users. Therefore, in order to acquire adequate privacy level and quality of service, one must have to wisely place mix zones ...

BACKGROUND The Eastern Mediterranean region has the second highest number of road traffic injury mortality rates after the African region based on 2013 data, with road traffic injuries accounting for 27% of the total injury mortality in the region. Globally the number of road traffic deaths has plateaued despite an increase in motorization, but it is uncertain whether this applies to the Region...

Well maintained road network is an essential requirement for the safety and consistency of vehicles moving on that road and the wellbeing of people in those vehicles. On the other hand, guaranteeing an adequate maintenance by road managers can be achieved via having sufficient and accurate information concerning road infrastructure quality that can be as well utilized concurrently by the widesp...

This paper revises the theoretical grounds for relation of the micro-level behaviour indicators to the safety and efficiency (level-of service) of the local traffic system. Automated video analysis is suggested as a tool for collection of the individual data about road users driving trajectories and speeds and interaction with other road users. We describe the current state of the video analysi...

Background Road traffic dynamics are complex in nature. According to Zhao (2011), road traffic demonstrates various complex systems properties like non-uniformity, non-linearity, and adaptability, hence, it can be considered as complex in nature. Manley (2014) notices that individual driver behavior and unpredictable movement choices are the key reasons of complexity in road traffic. In another...