Obstacle detection is an essential capability for the safe guidance of autonomous vehicles, especially in urban environments. This paper presents an efficient method to integrate spatial and temporal constraints for detecting and tracking obstacles in urban environments. In order to enhance the reliability of the obstacle detection task, we do not consider the urban roads as rigid planes, but a...

Climate change is likely to exert escalating stresses on urban environments over the coming decades (Garnaut, 2008; IPCC, 2007; Stern, 2006). Urban settlements in Australia will be subject to significant vulnerability (Hennessy et al, 2007). This will prompt responses from institutional governance frameworks in Australian cities and metropolitan areas. Efforts to manage climate change effects i...

The paper will describe the results of research recently completed, funded by Transfund New Zealand, into the phenomenon of traffic peak spreading in congested urban environments. The work looked specifically at two facets: 4 the extent to which traffic peak spreading has been observed and the underlying behavioural aspects 4 how (if) traffic peak spreading is modeled in different countries and...

EDITORIAL article Front. Ecol. Evol., 15 June 2022Sec. Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.953494