Zhibin Li, Seongchae Ahn, Koohong Chung, David R. Ragland et al.
This study presents a surrogate safety measure for evaluating the rear-end collision risk related to kinematic waves near freeway recurrent bottlenecks using aggregated traffic data from ordinary loop detectors. The attributes of kinematic waves that accompany rear-end collisions and the traffic con...
Md Iftekharul, Md Abid-Ar-Rafi, Md Neamul, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat
Safe From Fire (SFF) is an intelligent self controlled smart fire extinguisher system assembled with multiple sensors, actuators and operated by micro-controller unit (MCU). It takes input signals from various sensors placed in different position of the monitored area, and combines integrated fuzzy ...
Shakil Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Rubana Islam, Shaikh Mehdi Hasan et al.
Ensuring access to healthcare in emergency health situations is a persistent concern for health system planners. Emergency services, including critical care units for severe burns and coronary events, are amongst those for which travel time is the most crucial, potentially making a difference betwee...
Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Ashikur Rahman, Tabassum Khan, Mithila Faruque et al.
Objective To assess the burden of road traffic injury (RTI) in primary and secondary level hospitals in Bangladesh, and its economic impact on affected families. Study design Cross-sectional study. Methods The study was carried out in February and March 2001. To estimate the burden of RTI patients a...
Abdus Sattar Mollah, G. U. Ahmed, Saleha Husain, Md Mahmudur Rahman
Rich C. McIlroy, Vũ Hoài Nam, Brenda Bunyasi, Usanisa Jikyong et al.
The majority of cross-cultural research on traffic safety has investigated driver behaviour, yet in most low- and middle-income countries, where the weight of the road fatality burden is felt, motorisation rates are significantly lower than in higher-income countries. As such, this approach necessar...
Shangchuan Yang, Ben Leshchinsky, Kai Cui, Fei Zhang et al.
For conventional assessment of the bearing capacity of shallow foundations on level ground, dimensionless bearing capacity factors are used to establish the contribution of footing size, footing embedment, and soil shear strength. This study presents the derivation of an analytical approach toward e...
Hamed Al-Reesi, Abdullah Al Maniri, Kai Plankermann, Mustafa Al Hinai et al.
BACKGROUND There is a well developed literature on research investigating the relationship between various driving behaviors and road crash involvement. However, this research has predominantly been conducted in developed economies dominated by western types of cultural environments. To date no rese...
C Ghee, D T Silcock, A Astrop, G D Jacobs
Apart from the humanitarian aspects of road safety, the injuries and fatalities which occur as a result of road accidents have serious implications for a country in both social and economic terms. As a result of a wide variety of road safety activities and traffic management measures, road accident ...
Hamed Al-Reesi, Shyam Sunder Ganguly, Samir Al‐Adawi, Lucie Laflamme et al.
BACKGROUND: Recent affluence, assisted by exploitation of hydrocarbon, has sparked unprecedented economic growth and influx of all façades of modernity in Oman. Different statistical models have examined the relationship between economic growth, motorization rates, and road traffic fatalities. Howev...
Rich C. McIlroy, Gilbert Kokwaro, Jianping Wu, Usanisa Jikyong et al.
This paper reports on an exploratory investigation of the influence of five different fatalistic belief constructs (divine control, luck, helplessness, internality, and general fatalism) on three classes of self-reported pedestrian behaviours (memory and attention errors, rule violations, and aggres...
Niaz Mahmud Zafri, Ahmed Aflan Prithul, Ivee Baral, Moshiur Rahman
Although the rate of road crashes and their severity is relatively higher in developing countries, there is still a lack of research on pedestrian-vehicle crash severity in these contexts, particularly in Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the contributing environmental, road, and v...
Xuehui Wu, Xiaobo Lu, Henry Leung
This paper proposes a novel method for fire and smoke detection using video images. The ViBe method is used to extract a background from the whole video and to update the exact motion areas using frame-by-frame differences. Dynamic and static features extraction are combined to recognize the fire an...
Tawfiqur Rakib, Mrinmoy Sarkar
Recently, Multisensor Fire Detection System (MSFDS) is one of the important research issues. Here, a fire fighter robot is fabricated providing extinguishment platform. The base of the robot is made of the wood of `Rashed tree', locally known as `Kerosene wood'. There is about 1 liter water reservin...
Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is a main source of fuel, especially in urban areas because it is clean compared to firewood and charcoal. Gas leakage is a major problem in the industrial sector, residential premises, etc. Nowadays, home security has become a major issue because of increasing gas leak...