spatial organizations of each region are evolved through the activity of its settlement network. the formation procedure of settlement network is affected by the natural environment, social and economical structure, political and historical events. natural environment, social and economical structure of the city of talesh, have not permitted the permanent settlement and urbanism in this region....

When driving on lower-category Dutch rural roads without any delineation, drivers are likely to drift off the road with their right-side wheels, thus incurring damage to the pavement edge or even leading to accidents. In two experiments, two types of road-edge delineation, with continuous or dashed edge lines, were compared with two control roads without lines or with only a dashed line on the ...

According to the Ahlowalia hypothesis (1995), the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) beside infrastructure investments of government lead to income inequality decrease in rural areas of countries. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of public investments such as agricultural R&E, road, education and irrigation on income inequality in rural areas of Iran. In ord...

this study is to report characteristics of people killed in road traffic crashes and to describe major patterns of traffic crashes in china.descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were conducted. road traffic death national data, population denominator data and motor vehicles data of 2009 were obtained from the bureau of traffic management at ministry of public security and national bu...

2 Foreword This project investigates remote sensing technology for monitoring condition of unpaved roads. The unpaved roads are usually low-volume roads serving remote areas and agricultural business and linking agricultural communities to nearby towns and markets. Although more than half of all US roads are unpaved, assessment of unpaved road condition has been rarely addressed in transportati...

Nilsson (1981) proposed power relationships connecting changes in traffic speeds with changes in road crashes at various levels of injury severity. Increases in fatal crashes are related to the 4(th) power of the increase in mean speed, increases in serious casualty crashes (those involving death or serious injury) according to the 3(rd) power, and increases in casualty crashes (those involving...

To assist in the on-going effort to reduce road fatalities as much as possible, this paper presents a new methodology to evaluate road safety in both the design and redesign stages of two-lane rural highways. This methodology is based on the analysis of road geometric design consistency, a value which will be a surrogate measure of the safety level of the two-lane rural road segment. The consis...

Young people, particularly males and those from a rural area, are over represented in road crashes; this occurs in vehicle dependent countries around the world, including Australia. The attitudes, experiences and behaviours of young drivers are some of the key factors which affect their potential to have an early on road driving experience that is crash free. This paper considers the views of y...

BACKGROUND Road Safety is a major cause of death around the world and South Africa has one of the highest road fatality rates. Many measures, engineering and medical, are investigated. However, analysis of the accessibility of emergency care facilities is often overlooked. This paper aims to fill the gap between pre-crash engineering solutions and literature on trauma injuries and emergency car...