Essays about: "roadside safety"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words roadside safety.

  1. 1. Hydronic Pavement Systems for Sustainable Winter Road Maintenance in Sweden : A Study of Hamnbacken in Visby

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Chirin Barikan; [2019]
    Keywords : Winter road maintenance; sustainable infrastructure; geoenergy; renewable energy; Nordic climate; BTES; surface water source heat; Halkbekämpning; hållbar infrastruktur; geoenergi; förnybar energi; nordiskt klimat; borrhål; sjövärme;

    Abstract : In countries with harsh winter climates extensive winter road maintenance is necessary to achieve traffic accessibility and road safety. These measures have high economic and environmental costs as snow free roads and winter road maintenance in Sweden today is achieved by a combination of mechanical snow clearance and the spreading of salt to prevent ice formation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Path planning and trajectory generation - model predictive control

    University essay from KTH/Fordonsdynamik

    Author : Tobias Idman; [2019]
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    Abstract : Autonomous vehicle technology is a rapidly expanding field that will play an important role in society in the future. The ambition of autonomous technology is to improve safety for drivers, passengers and pedestrians, reduce traffic congestion and lower fuel consumption. READ MORE

  4. 3. Message Prioritization for Autonomous Vehicle Communication

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI)

    Author : Simon Edström; Erik Tällberg; [2018]
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    Abstract : For autonomous vehicles to operate safely and efficiently they need to communicate messages with each other and the roadside infrastructure. Messages related to safety are more important than messages related to e.g. entertainment but the communication protocols of today do not allow for prioritization between these message types. READ MORE

  5. 4. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Single Frame Monocular Depth Estimation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för systemteknik

    Author : Jacob Schennings; [2017]
    Keywords : deep learning; machine learning; mono vision system; lightweight; CNN; convolutional neural network; depth estimation; lidar; kitti; vehicle camera; mono camera; camera; real-time; real time; ad; autonomous driving; adas; advanced driver assistance systems; mono depth; computer vision; regression; pixel-wise; pixel wise; object detection; general object detection; pedestrian detection; vehicle detection; supervised learning; supervised; tensorflow; python; keras; opencv; autoliv;

    Abstract : Vision based active safety systems have become more frequently occurring in modern vehicles to estimate depth of the objects ahead and for autonomous driving (AD) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). In this thesis a lightweight deep convolutional neural network performing real-time depth estimation on single monocular images is implemented and evaluated. READ MORE

  6. 5. Deadly designs : the impact of road design on road crash patterns along Jamaica’s North Coast Highway

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Lisa-Gaye Greene; [2017]
    Keywords : geographical information systems; GIS; geography; hot spot analysis; road design features; zero-inflated negative binomial; ZINB; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Jamaica has struggled to curb the number of road crash fatalities, having had on average 25 fatalities per month between 2010 and 2014, while many more persons have been injured. The causes of crashes are multidimensional, however this study focused on understanding one aspect of reducing crashes - safe road design. READ MORE