The Traffic Signal Timing Manual is available at http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop08024/index.htm.
In addition, a few more useful sites…
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/arterial_mgmt/pubs.htm
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publications.htm
In-car safety sensor can recognize drowsiness of driver and react to wake the driver up. More story is here.
Fujitsu is conjuring up a sophisticated sensor system that can actually detect when a driver gets drowsy or begins to sink into a deep, dark wonder-world of sleep. Put simply, the system would detect specific changes in [...]
University of Iowa is conducting a federally funded study on the mileage based road user charge. See more stody here. The homepage for the study site is here.
See more story at http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/mLoYrmvonxpSwUCibSfXpIVJ?format=standard.
How much your time worth? Would you pay $388/hour rate for saving 1 hour worth of your time? We will see when the Capital beltway opens in 5 years.
Using an average rush-hour toll of $1.54 a mile, as projected in the studies, a 6.3- mile morning commute between Route 29 and Braddock Road in Fairfax [...]
Future vehicle could prevent crashes!
Nissan has unveiled an All-Around Collision Free prototype incorporating two all-new technologies: Side Collision Prevention (SCP) and Back-up Collision Prevention (BCP). Incorporating the available Distance Control Assist (DCA) and Lane Departure Prevention (LDP) systems, this latest prototype vehicle further extends Nissan’s ‘Safety Shield’ concept to help protect the vehicle and its [...]
According to US DOT, the 2007 fatalities on US highways dropped 3.9% from 2006.
Last year’s traffic fatalities totaled 41,059, a 3.9 percent decrease from 2006, according to U.S.
DOT. It’s the largest year-over-year reduction in fatalities in terms of both number and percentage
since 1992. The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled was 1.37 – [...]
SURROGATE SAFETY ASSESSMENT MODEL AND VALIDATION: FINAL REPORT
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=9389
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that
explores an alternative safety assessment approach utilizing conflict
analysis-analyzing the frequency and character of narrowly averted
vehicle-to-vehicle collisions in traffic-as a surrogate measure of
actual crash data.
Transportation costs to alter world trade patterns… More story can be found here. An expert says,
Shipping a standard 40-foot container from Shanghai to the U.S. East Coast in May cost about $8,000, vs. $3,000 eight years ago, when oil was around $20 a barrel
US set aside 75 MHz spectrum at 5.9 GHz for VII communications, while EC just announced that they will set a side 30 MHz at same 5.9 GHz. Hope this is good news in standardization.
Link to Reuter’s news
The European Commission is set to back reserving a chunk of pan-European radio spectrum for technology that allows [...]
