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Reliability-based analysis of highway geometric Elements: A systematic review

Cogent Engineering, 2022
Conventional highway design approaches have primarily focused on the use of guidelines in the design of highways. These design guidelines provide nominal safety where conservative percentile values of the design inputs are used to account for the ...
Abayomi Afolayan, Oladapo Abiola Samson, Said Easa, Funmilayo Modupe Alayaki, Olusegun Folorunso   +4 more
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Reliability-Based Safety Evaluation of Headlight Sight Distance Applied to Road Sag Curve Standards

IEEE Access, 2020
Sight distance is key to ensure safe road geometric design under all circumstances. Road design standards propose models simulating nighttime driving that contemplate the features of vehicle frontlighting systems to address the design of sag curves ...
F. Andrade-Catano, C. De Santos-Berbel, M. Castro   +2 more
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Examining the feasibility of current spiral curve design controls for LiDAR‐based automated vehicles

IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2023
Enabling large‐scale deployment of automated vehicles (AVs) in the near future requires answering the question firstly: whether AVs could safely adapt to as‐built road geometry?
Shuyi Wang, Chengyang Mao, Yang Ma, Jinzhou Liu, Bin Yu   +4 more
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Investigation of Rainfall Impact on Traffic Characteristics of Urban Roads [PDF]

JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences
Adverse weather conditions such as rainfall, significantly affect road safety and traffic performance by altering surface conditions and driver behavior.
Terseer Ako, Lenin Oyesigye, Pathias Ndyabijuka, Jonan Bainomugisha, Philip Tibenderana, Sholagberu Abdulkadir   +5 more
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The Sight Distance Issues with Retrofitted Single-Lane HOV Facilities

International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2013
It is well-known that obstruction inside a highway horizontal curve will lead to impaired sight distance. Highway alignment design standards in terms of the minimum horizontal curve radius are specified to allow for adequate stopping sight distance at ...
Zhongren Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Analytical Method for 3-D Stopping Sight Distance Adequacy Investigation [PDF]

Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2015
The adopted 2-D SSD (stopping sight distance) adequacy investigation in current design practice may lead to design deficiencies due to inaccurate calculation of the available sight distance. Although this concern has been identified by many research studies in the past, none of them suggested a comprehensive methodology to simulate from a 3-D ...
null Fotis S. Mertzanis, null Antonis Boutsakis, null Ikaros-Georgios Kaparakis, null Stergios Mavromatis, null Basil Psarianos   +4 more
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A Rural Road Accident Probability Model Based on Single-Vehicle Hazard Properties including Hazard Color and Mobility: A Driving Simulator Study

Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020
Road safety has recently been considered an important issue in the country. Single-vehicle accident statistics show the importance of this issue. From a safety viewpoint, drivers need to have a reasonable time window for hazard recognition and reaction ...
Sina Sheikholeslami, Amin M. Boroujerdian, Morteza Asadamraji   +2 more
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Vision‐Based Tactile Finger Integrating Fingerpad and Nail Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This vision‐based tactile finger captures nail force and fingerpad force, contact position, and in‐plane orientation with one internal camera. An external camera recognizes the target and presets finger inclination from object height. The compact dual‐sensing design supports tactile‐guided table contact and reliable grasping of objects ranging from ...
Hao Zhou, Kazuhiro Shimonomura
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐humanizing anatomy? Learning through human body donors in physiotherapy education

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomical knowledge underpins clinical skills and professional identity in physiotherapy. However, dedicated teaching has declined in recent years. Body donor‐based learning, though common in medical education, is rarely used in physiotherapy.
Robert Parish, Chris Carter, John Stephens, Debs Patten   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of visibility on traffic Incidents at signalized intersections –a case study in Polish cities

Archives of Transport
In urban agglomerations, signalized intersections are common. However, in traffic management, safety-focused strategies are often sacrificed for traffic efficiency by allowing simultaneous multiple conflicting movements.
Damian Iwanowicz, Radosław Klusek
doaj   +1 more source