Bus drivers often have irregular working hours like split shifts and their work involve high levels of stress. These factors can lead to severe sleepiness and dangerous driving. The purpose of this study is to highlight how split shifts affect sleepiness and performance during afternoon drive. The study is an experiment on real road with an equipped bus driven by professional bus drivers. The s...

For many years, it has been assumed that mammalian development is primarily controlled by transcription factors, but recent studies, including that reported by Ng et al (2012) in this issue, indicate that there is an additional massive hidden layer of regulatory RNAs that control the site specificity of chromatin-modifying complexes and other regulatory proteins involved in the control of embry...

This study presents the conceptual design of an intersection bus-pedestrian collision warning system for bus drivers approaching an intersection. The basic parameters of the proposed design concept include the bus drivers’ perception-reaction time, the emergency deceleration rate of the bus, and pedestrian walking speed. A bus driving simulation was designed and conducted to analyze bus drivers...

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) technology may reduce fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions in many mediumand heavyduty vehicle vocations, including school buses. The true magnitude of these reductions is best assessed by comparative testing over relevant drive cycles. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) collected and analyzed real-world school bus drive cycle data, and sel...

Background: With an ever-increasing number of vehicles on the road, it is inevitable that drivers will need to call upon an increasing use of sensory and motor skills in order to negotiate safely through traffic. Vision is one of the major senses in human beings, and it is definitely necessary for safe driving. Approximately 95% of the sensory input to the brain required for driving comes from ...

OBJECTIVE To report common traffic violations in bus drivers and the factors that influence those violations in urban China. METHODS We conducted an observational study to record three types of traffic violations among bus drivers in Changsha City, China: illegal stopping at bus stations, violating traffic light signals, and distracted driving. The behaviors of bus drivers on 32 routes (20% o...

Amphibious buses are extensively used worldwide for transporting people to and from tourist attractions across water land. Although numerous studies on self-driving technologies have been reported, research the automatic operation navigation of an amphibious vehicle has sparse; moreover, owing size vehicles, transport multiple is not possible. Therefore, in this study, we attempted realize unma...