When the profile information of an existing road is missing or not up-to-date and the parameters of the vertical alignment are needed for engineering analysis, the engineer has to recreate the geometric design features of the road alignment using collected profile data. The profile data may be collected using traditional surveying methods, global positioning systems, or digital imagery. This pa...

This paper presents a novel approach to the reduction of short-span bridge dynamic responses to heavy vehicle crossing events. The reductions are achieved through adjustment of the vehicle suspension damping coefficient just before the crossing. Given pre-calculations of the response of a vehicle-bridge system to a set of ‘unit’ road disturbances, it is shown that a single optimum damping coeff...

This paper will present an obstacle detection system that that relies on the 3D information provided by stereo reconstruction. The 3D features must be separated in road features and obstacle features. Instead of relying on the flatness of the road, the vertical road profile is modeled as a clothoid, and is estimated from the lateral projection of the 3D points. The points above the road are sel...

Time-dependent Contraction Hierarchies provide fast and exact route planning for time-dependent large scale road networks but need lots of space. We solve this problem by the careful use of approximations of piecewise linear functions. This way we need about an order of magnitude less space while preserving exactness and accepting only a little slow down. Moreover, we use these approximations t...

We study the earliest arrival and profile problems in road networks with time-dependent functions as arc weights and dynamic updates. We present and experimentally evaluate simple, samplingbased, heuristic algorithms. Our evaluation is performed on large, current, production-grade road graph data with time-dependent arc weights. It clearly shows that the proposed algorithms are fast and compute...

The Navigation Aided Intelligent Cruise Control (N.A.I.C.C.) system acts in the field of the lateral and longitudinal control of a car. This paper only describes the lateral part of this new driver-aid system. Once the vehicle is located on the road, it determines the distance to the next bend and predicts a reference path to negotiate this bend considering the road profile, the vehicle charact...

One of the most challenging tasks while designing an automotive electronic device is to take into account its whole electro-mechanic environment, so that time expensive failure tests can be reduced. We show a case study, developed in collaboration with an industrial partner, in which an automotive Compact Disk (CD) player is modelled. Using VHDL-AMS, not only its whole mixed-signal electro-mech...

monitoring of road traffic noise is becoming an important issue in modern cities due to the spreading of noise pollution and the extension of monitored areas. thus, the stratified spatial sampling is frequently applied to reduce the costs and provide adequate accuracy in order to obtain reliable noise maps. the definition of the strata in the sampling may refer to the legislative classification...

Horse riding and horse-related interactions are inherently dangerous. When they occur on public roads, the risk profile of equestrian activities is complicated by interactions with other road users. Research has identified speed, proximity, visibility, conspicuity and mutual misunderstanding as factors contributing to accidents and near misses. However, little is known about their significance ...