At some intersections, excessive queue lengths may spill out of the left-turn bay and block the through lanes, jeopardizing level of service for the entire intersection. One of the most effective plans recently presented by the researchers is the "Contraflow left-turn lane" (CLL) In this method, left-turn vehicles will use the nearest lane in the opposite direction in addition to the usual left...

in present paper, housing has been considered as a multidimensional and heterogeneous item. its characteristics has been considered as key elements in determination of unit price of each building unit. the aim of the present paper is to determine the degree of importance which each charactericstics of housing has for users. there fore, hedonic price function of urbun housing in khoramabad estim...

This study tested the effects of lane width, lane position and edge shoulder width on driving behavior for a three-lane underground urban expressway. A driving simulator was used with 24 volunteer test subjects. Five lane widths (2.85, 3.00, 3.25, 3.50, and 3.75 m) and three shoulder widths (0.50, 0.75, and 1.00 m) were studied. Driving speed, lane deviation and subjective perception of driving...

The purpose of this study was to investigate traffic flow characteristics at off-ramp junctions in Iranian expressways. The study was conducted on the traffic behavior in isolated off-ramp vicinity of 6-lane expressways. The database consisted of traffic flow and traffic speed information extracted from videotapes. The relationship between diverging traffic flow in the right lane of expressway ...

Lane and Terry (2000) defined mood as “a set of feelings, ephemeral in nature, varying in intensity and duration, and usually involving more than one emotion” (p.16). They proposed a conceptual framework for predicting performance from mood states assessed by the Profile of Mood States (McNair, Lorr, & Droppleman, 1971) or its derivatives. The conceptual model indicated that depressed mood infl...

This papaer proposes a method of estimating the state of a driving lane by using a multiple-model particle filter for switching the type of multiple-lane model. This model represents whether there is a lane to the left or right of the running lane or there are lanes on both sides of the running lane. Using the context that an image is captured by car-mounted camera, we simplified the lane detec...

The concept of Ford’s lane keeping sys­ tem includes two variants: The driver can select a warning function and a lane keeping function in case the vehicle leaves its current lane, known as lane keeping alert, ❶, and lane keeping aid, ❷, respectively. Both functions make use of a camera serving as a sensor for iden­ tifying the traffic lane and the lane mark­ ings. Identifying the ve hicle’s ow...

The animals were subjected to hormone treatment for 1 week. Hormones were administered either continuously via osmotic minipumps (m.p.) or intermittently by subcutaneous injections once ( 1 x s.c.) or twice (2 x s.c.) daily. Daily doses were 120 pg for GH and 100 pg for methyltrienolone, respectively. Lane I , control female; lane 2, hypophysectomized (Hx) female; lane 3, female + androgen (met...

Autonomous driver assistance system is a core component for the robust detection and tracking of lane markings on roads and pedestrian detection. The lane detection method is a major component of intelligent transport system. Lane detection helps to estimate the road geometry ahead as well as lateral position of vehicle. A fast lane detection algorithm is proposed by Hough transform which is fa...