The lane change maneuver is among the most popular driving behaviors. It is also the basic element of important maneuvers like overtaking maneuver. Therefore, it is chosen as the focus of this study and novel multi-input multi-output adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system models (MANFIS) are proposed for this behavior. These models are able to simulate and predict the future behavior of a Dri...

Exhaust emissions contribute greatly to air pollution, the social cost of which may occur as danger to human health, attracting huge medical expenses, causing absenteeism and hence loss of productivity. These are incentives to reduce exhaust emissions to the barest minimum. Two major cities in Ghana, Accra and Kumasi, are struck by vehicular traffic jams especially during rush-hours and are gra...

background road traffic accident (rta) victims also suffer from different types of injuries and disabilities, which can affect their quality of life. they usually face with various physical, mental, and social problems. most traffic accident victims had difficulty to return to normal life. objectives this study aimed to understand the experiences of return to normal life in rta victims. patient...

This paper studies the notion of ability and its relation with the notion of action in a multi-agent context. It introduces the distinction between two notions respectively called “theoretical ability” and “ability”. The main contribution of this paper is a model of these notions in the Situation Calculus.

frustrating situations that impede or prevent some form of ongoing goal-directed behavior are believed to act as a catalyst for aggressive behavior. from social learning approaches aggression is a learned response through observation or imitation of socially relevant others. many psychological factors are at play in aggressive driving and many may prove difficult to control. human beings are na...

Rail transport is an important basic sector of economy of Ukraine, provides its internal and external transport and economic connections and transportation needs of the population. Currently, the country's railways transport a large quantity of various goods, including nine form of dangerous goods. We know that traffic accidents on the railway, according to the causes of origin, are divided int...

The CODAR system is a simulation and visualization toolbox for vehicle-to-vehicle communication. In this paper, we introduce the visualization component of CODAR Viewer as context information display. It visualizes communication, creates awareness and provides situation information. Visualized vehicleto-x communication data provides additional information, increasing safety and allowing more in...

Link state routing protocols are widely used for intradomain routing in the Internet. These protocols are simple to administer and automatically update paths between sources and destinations when the topology changes. However, finding link weights that optimize network performance for a given traffic scenario is computationally hard. The situation is even more complex when the traffic is uncert...

The paper describes the situation of road traffic accidents in Brazil since 1998, when a new Brazilian traffic law was approved, up to the year 2010. A review of both academic and non-academic literature was carried out, including journals (both indexed and non-indexed), technical reports, author searches, searches in paper reference lists and direct contact with researchers. The main problems ...

Maintaining efficient transportation systems has become a key goal for government-based transportation agencies in this age of serious energy shortages, rising costs and competing recipients of public funds. The emphasis has shifted to optimizing traffic movement on the existing surface street network rather than to provide more freeways. As described in Schnabel and Lohse (1997), the network c...