A significant percentage of road fatalities and injuries occur in the nonmotorway rural network. One main causes accidents on these roads is represented by overtaking, as, its nature, it involves a risk head-on collision with oncoming traffic. The paper describes combined simulation approach (driving simulator traffic microsimulation) designed to examine influence different conditions passing m...

In this paper, we proposed a B-Snake based lane detection and tracking algorithm without any cameras’ parameters. Compared with other lane models, the B-Snake based lane model is able to describe a wider range of lane structures since B-Spline can form any arbitrary shape by a set of control points. The problems of detecting both sides of lane markings (or boundaries) have been merged here as t...

For several years the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) has been conducting a research program on the effectiveness of roadway delineation for providing enhanced guidance to the driver negotiating curves on rural two-lane roads at night. The FHWA Highway Driving Simulator (HDS), located at the TFHRC, plays an important role in this research pr...

In this paper, we proposed a new B-snake based lane detection algorithm. Compared with other lane models, the B-snake based lane model is able to describe a wider range of lane structures, since B-spline can form any arbitrary shape by a set of control points. The problems of detecting both sides of lane markings (or boundaries) have been formulated here as the problem of detecting the mid-line...

Speed and traffic volume data are collected on different sections of four lane and six lane roads in three metropolitan cities in India. Speed data are analyzed to fit the statistical distribution to individual vehicle speed data and all vehicles speed data. It is noted that speed data of individual vehicle generally follows a normal distribution but speed data of all vehicle combined at a sect...

We describe an algorithm by which an autonomous land vehicle is able to navigate along roads utilising lane boundary markings. This is achieved by defining a six-parameter model of the lane markings and fitting this to the processed monochrome image using non-linear least squares techniques. By qualitative as well as quantitative analysis over many hundreds of images the model used is shown to ...