road transport is a ubiquitous source of lead contamination in the soil near highways with direct and indirect impacts on human health. accumulation of traffic-induced lead in the soils depends on gasoline lead content, traffic volume, as well as meteorological conditions. to evaluate the effect of traffic on soil lead concentration, 113 samples from the topsoil (0-15 cm) were collected in a re...

BACKGROUND Most studies having shown respiratory health effects from traffic exhaust were conducted in urban areas with a complex mixture of air pollution sources. This study has investigated the potential impact of traffic exhaust on respiratory symptoms among adults living along a Swiss alpine highway corridor, where traffic exhaust from the respective trans-Alpine highway is the predominate ...

5 Despite the well recognized fact that a proper control of traffic speed can contribute to both reduction in accidents and efficiency of highway operations, most existing strategies for work-zone speed control in either Europe or the U.S. tend to primarily focus on improving traffic safety. This article presents two online algorithms for variable speed limit (VSL) controls at highway work zone...

This article proves the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to a scalar conservation law on a bounded domain. A weak formulation of the boundary conditions is needed for the problem to be well posed. The existence of the solution results from the convergence of the Godunov scheme. This weak formulation is written explicitly in the context of a strictly concave flux function (relevant fo...

This study was prompted by investigations of models of traffic flow on a highway through analyses of the structure and properties of Poisson fields of random lines in a plane. It is possible to view the trajectory of a car produced by its time and space coordinates on the highway as a straight line in that plane if the car travels at a constant speed once it enters the highway and then never le...

In this paper, the author studies about the traffic safety technology of highway tunnel group. In this study measured traffic safety technology in the access zone of tunnels including tunnel luminance under diverse climate conditions were measured and luminance of the threshold zone were estimated. Then operating traffic safety technology of tunnel in China was compared and analyzed and, based ...