Wireless sensor networks have been deployed for environmental monitoring over the last twenty years. However, this application is not frequently deployed to solve the environmental problems (e.g. air pollution detection) encountered by many African countries. This paper develops an architecture based on a Wireless Mesh Network of Sensors (WMNS) to measure air pollution in African cities. We are...

Road Traffic Crash (RTC) is the eighth leading cause of death globally. In a recent World Health Organization report, there were 5,192 RTC deaths reported from Pakistan in 2010. The Road Traffic Injury Research and Prevention Center (RTIRPC) is a unique public-private public health enterprise in Karachi, and collects data from five major public and private hospitals' emergency departments in th...

INTRODUCTION In the early stages of motorization, it did not take rigorous scientific research to achieve major improvements in traffic safety. Instead, early traffic-safety countermeasures were often based exclusively on common sense. Since then, scientific research has gradually increased in importance as the basis for developing successful interventions. This shift was not made by choice but...

Transport accounted for around 23% of carbon emissions in 2013, which cannot be ignored in terms of global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. With levels of urbanization and motorization increasing rapidly worldwide, carbon emitted in the transport sector, especially passenger traffic, is projected to keep growing. Without the implementation of aggressive and sustained policy interven...

Urbanization and motorization increases encourage traffic congestion related problems. This triggers alternative innovative solution in the context of advanced technology. The necessity providing balanced modal distribution intermodal integration is a well-known issue. In this paper within framework firstly existing case expressed on axial developing developed countries then electrical bicycle ...

The most desirable effect of motorization development is obtainment high performance power units. Ecological requirements, however, and exhaustibility the earth natural resources limit possibilities self-ignition engines. study presents analyses torque a engine fueled with mixtures diesel fatty acid methyl esters. tests show that application biocomponent additive to fuel slightly reduces value ...

• Traffic fatalities trend analysis is carried out for Bengaluru city based on seven years (2011-2017) road accident data. Who-hit-whom matrices developed signify that two-wheelers and pedestrian alone accounts more than 80% of fatalities. The Fatality-risk model to assess the change in traffic eight growth scenarios. high proportion distance traveled by bus identified as best scenario reducing...

The influence of large sub urban shopping center toward the decline of inner city commercial center has attracted many researchers. To prevent the decline of the city center due to urban sprawl, it is necessary to understand the influence of sub urban shopping mall development in competition with the city commercial center. This paper reports the investigation on the transportation effect on th...

Urban Traffic Control in developing countries is often a never ending problem due to rapid motorization. Optimization of traffic control is one way to reduce this problem. In this experiment, Genetic Algorithm was adopted to optimize a traffic light and offset between intersections. The objective functions are minimizing delay at an intersection and maximize traffic progressive flows along an a...

The reduction of the rate of death attributable to motor-vehicle crashes in the United States represents the successful public health response to a great technologic advance of the 20th century-the motorization of America. Six times as many people drive today as in 1925, and the number of motor vehicles in the country has increased 11-fold since then to approximately 215 million. The number of ...