The objective of this research is the analysis of the driving performance of drivers with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), on the basis of a driving simulator experiment, in which healthy “control” drivers and impaired drivers drive in different driving scenarios, following a thorough neurological and neuropsychological assessment of all participants. The driving sc...

The concept of limited access highways in the city could be considered as the epitome of modernity; reflecting the ever increasing speed of everyday life and the distancing of individuals from communities (cf. Simmel, Tönnies). Separation from contact with the landscape and its effect on space-time relationships creates a new spatiality (see Augé, 1995). While laying concrete across the country...

Spurred by economic growth and motorisation, vehicular emissions in most urban areas of India have become a serious environmental and health issue. The policy response to regulating vehicular emissions has been mainly through command and control (CAC) strategies. These are essentially a set of “dos” and “don’ts” that, inter alia, mandate tailpipe emission standards, fuel standards, and technolo...

his paper’s intended contribution, in terms of providing an additional angle in the existing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) state-of-the-art knowledge spectrum, is a dual one. On the one hand, it provides a detailed description of the mode, re-deining BRT as an overall concept by identifying, discussing, and categorizing in a systematic way its strengths and its weaknesses in comparison with rail-base...