The automatic extraction of road features from remote sensed images has been a topic of great interest within the photogrammetric and remote sensing communities for over 3 decades. Although various techniques have been reported in the literature, it is still challenging to efficiently extract the road details with the increasing of image resolution as well as the requirement for accurate and up...

The number of intersection accidents around the world has reached a plateau and has not decreased in spite of the innovation and improvement in road and vehicle safety technologies. Therefore, intersection collision warning and avoidance systems that are able to warn potential drivers of an impending collision are required. The existing systems have not utilized recent innovations in vehicular ...

Congestion pricing has been proposed and investigated as an effective means of optimizing traffic assignment, alleviating congestion, and enhancing traffic operation efficiencies. Meanwhile, advanced traffic information dissemination systems, such as Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS), have been developed and deployed to provide realtime, accurate, and complete network-wide traffic inf...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) on the frequency and severity of accidents. ESC is an active safety device for motor vehicles which enhances controllability by preventing skidding in cases of oversteering or understeering. Skidding occurs when speed, steering input, possibly also braking, are in excess of what is possible under the curre...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a field trial of a GPS-based road-user charging system held in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Employees from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne were recruited to participate in experiments of both point-based and distance-based charging. To avoid road-user charges for commuting to and from the University during the trial period, volunteers cou...

This paper reviews game-theoretic models that have been developed to explain road user behaviour in situations where road users interact with each other. The paper includes the following game-theoretic models: 1.A general model of the interaction between road users and their possible reaction to measures improving safety (behavioural adaptation).2.Choice of vehicle size as a Prisoners’ dilemma ...

In the existing system, GPS-equipped vehicles can be regarded as mobile sensors probing traffic flows on road surfaces and users are usually experienced in finding the fastest (quickest) route to a destination based on query from the historical GPS trajectories of a large number of vehicles, and provide a user with the practically fastest route to a given destination at a given departure time. ...

In order to support intelligent transportation system (ITS) road safety applications such as collision avoidance, lane departure warnings and lane keeping, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) based vehicle positioning system has to provide lane-level (0.5 to 1 m) or even in-lane-level (0.1 to 0.3 m) accurate and reliable positioning information to vehicle users. However, current vehicle ...

among the various complex and challenging tasks of upcoming road vehicles, one is road detection or road boundaries detection. Many people die every year in roadway departure crashes caused by driver inattention in most of the cases. Lane detection systems are helpful in avoiding these accidents as safety is the major purpose of these systems. Such systems have the objective to detect the lane ...