1Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), 1001 University Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan 2Department of Industrial Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), 1001 University Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan 3Department of Occupational Therapy, I-Shou University (ISU), 8 Yida Road, Yanchao, Kaohsiung County 82445, Taiwan 4 Institute of Applied Arts, National Chiao ...

There are a number of factors which contribute to the continuous pressure for driving in different cities. However most serious, but often overlooked is the problem that the structure of costs of driving stimulates excessive car use. This paper presents the structure of driving costs and classifies then into user, social and environmental costs. The incidence of all these costs is discussed. Th...

Single carriageway multilane roads are not, in general, a very safe type of road, mainly because of the high number of seriously injured victims in head-on collisions, when compared with dual carriageway multilane roads, with a median barrier. In this paper the results of a study on the effect of the application of several low cost engineering measures, aimed at road infrastructure correction a...

1Department of Environmental Robotics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen Kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki-shi 889-2192, Japan 2Department of Intellectual Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama, No. 5506, Information Technology Building (G9), Gofuku 3190, Toyama 930-8555, Japan 3Research Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No. 80...

School of Computing and Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, County Antrim BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland, UK The Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058, USA School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, The ...

It is common in many countries that engineers having an academic degree in Civil Engineering are appointed responsible for different tasks related to Bridge Engineering. However, there are serious questions about whether formal university courses in civil engineering could cover the needs of a bridge engineer to fulfill his or her job successfully. Regarding the recent significant advances in t...