Visual attention is a key component of the driving task. Identifying times when the driver is not looking toward the forward views has been shown to be a successful indicator of distracted driving (Olson, Hanowski, Hickman, ...

Resource allocation mechanisms have become a major issue for transportation agencies in the United States and around the world. In order to meet budgetary restrictions resulting from reductions in funding, transportation ...

This study focused on identifying transverse joint locations on jointed plain concrete pavements (JPCP) using an automated joint detection algorithm and computing faulting at these locations using Long-Term Pavement ...

The Bela-Bela/Polokwane toll road on National Route 1 was the first Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) type contract in South Africa. Extensive data on the pavement performance and traffic loading was collected as part of ...

The focus of the current study is the comparison of multiple contrast metrics... The images of pedestrians from a previous nighttime research study were used for analysis. The pedestrians were clothed in both denim and ...

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) conducts periodic pre-qualification studies to evaluate the proficiency of pavement inspectors in performing pavement distress surveys per ASTM Standard D6433. The results ...

Teens and young drivers are often reported as one driver group that has significantly lower seatbelt use rates than other age groups. Objective This study was designed to address the questions of whether and how seatbelt-use ...

The international roughness index and the ride number are the most common road profile indices used throughout the world today, which are both based on the response of a simulated passenger car travelling at 80 km per hour. ...