With the increasing need for road lane detection used in lane departure warning systems and autonomous vehicles, many studies have been conducted to turn road lane detection into a virtual assistant to improve driving safety and reduce car accidents. Most of the previous research approaches detect the central line of a road lane and not the accurate left and right boundaries of the lane. In add...

Collision Avoidance systems, as a subsequent step to collision mitigation, are one of the Great challenges in the area of active safety for road vehicles. In India the total annual deaths due to road accidents has crossed 1.18 lakh, according to the latest report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). If these deficiencies are not controlled at early stages they might cause huge economical pr...

We consider a conservation law model of traffic flow on a network of roads, where drivers choose their departure times in order to minimize the sum of a departure cost and an arrival cost. Drivers can have different origins and destinations, and different cost functions. Under natural assumptions, two main results have been established: (i) the existence of a globally optimal solution, minimizi...

Driver behavior under congestion pricing is analyzed in this study to evaluate the effects of alternative congestion pricing schemes. The analysis, which is based on stated-preference survey results, focuses on time allocation, departure time choice and route choice when a congestion pricing scheme is implemented on a toll road. A unique feature of the model system of this study is that departu...

In this paper, a robust vehicle local position estimation with the help of single camera sensor and GPS is presented. A modified Inverse Perspective Mapping, illuminant Invariant techniques and object detection based approach is used to localize the vehicle in the road. Vehicles current lane, its position from road boundary and other cars are used to define its local position. For this purpose ...

Park managers are concerned that moose (Alces alces), caribou (Rangifer tarandus), and grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) may be avoiding areas along the 130 km road through Denali National Park as a result of high traffic volume, thus decreasing opportunities for visitors to view wildlife. A wildlife monitoring system was developed in 1996 that used 19 landscape level viewsheds, stratified into four...