Overtaking is a maneuver that consists of passing another vehicle traveling on the same trajectory, but at slower speed. considered one most dangerous, delicate and complex maneuvers performed by vehicle, as it requires quick assessment distance speed to be overtaken, also estimation available space for maneuver. In particular, drivers have difficulty overtaking in presence vehicles coming othe...

It is largely consented that the bicycle a sustainable mobility alternative in city. Despite its many benefits, cycling comprises risks of injury or death. Among others, these are result unsafe overtaking manoeuvres performed by motorized vehicles against cyclists. This study aims to identify characteristics road network and traffic influencing lateral distance duration overtaking. Using bicycl...

One of the most risky maneuvers in roads with both directions in the same carriageway and only one lane for each direction is overtaking another vehicle. To overtake becomes particularly dangerous at night, with bad weather conditions and in curves, due to the diminution of the visibility. This paper presents a system to assist the driver in scenarios of bad visibility for overtaking. The syste...

We consider the problem of resolving all pairwise interactions of shock waves, contact waves, and rarefaction waves in 1-dimensional flow of an ideal polytropic gas. Resolving an interaction means here to determine the types of the three outgoing (backward, contact, and forward) waves in the Riemann problem defined by the extreme left and right states of the two incoming waves, together with po...

We propose a way to introduce in microscopic pedestrian models a "social norm" in collision avoiding and overtaking, i.e. the tendency, shared by pedestrians belonging to the same culture, to avoid collisions and perform overtaking in a preferred direction. The "social norm" is implemented, regardless of the specific collision avoiding model, as a rotation in the perceived velocity vector of th...

A single-blind randomized study was conducted on young (18-21 years, n = 16) and mature (25-35 years, n = 16) drivers to assess how age, combined with a modest dose of alcohol (0.7 g/kg for males and 0.6 g/kg for females), influenced performance on a driving simulator. The driving tasks included detecting the presence of a vehicle on the horizon as quickly as possible, estimating the point on t...