News tagged with road
Smarter cars are gaining traction (w/ Video)
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lives can depend on a vehicle's moment-by-moment traction. New European technology promises to make cars as good as experienced, alert drivers at sensing and adjusting to wet, snowy or icy ...
More 20 mph zones in London would prevent 100 killed or seriously injured casualties each year
Dec 11, 2009 |
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20 mph traffic speed zones reduce casualties by 41.9% with the greatest reduction in child casualties, according to research published today in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road ...
Road trains may be coming soon to Europe (w/ Video)
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Road trains linking vehicles together in a traveling convoy are planned for Europe. With only the lead vehicle being actively driven, the road trains would allow commuters to sleep, read a ...
Virtual solution to driving phobias
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.
New method proposed to calculate reduction in road accident deaths
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A team of engineers from the University of Almería (UAL, Spain) has developed a methodology to help meet the EU objective of cutting road deaths by 50% between 2000 and 2010. The researchers have calculated ...
Creating resilience for vehicular applications
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed promising approaches to a long-neglected aspect of car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications: fault-tolerance and resilience. The technology is ...
Area-wide traffic calming improves safety -- but will it work in low- and middle-income countries?
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Area-wide traffic calming schemes that discourage through-traffic from using residential roads are effective at reducing traffic-related injuries in high-income countries and may even reduce deaths. However, more research ...
Driver misjudgment and landscape variations cause collisions at stop sign intersections
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stop signs are supposed to be traffic safety tools, but how effective are they? According to one Ryerson University researcher, intersections with stop signs can be some of the deadliest places ...
Sound waves save roads
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Every year roads are built and repaired to the tune of several billions. Intensive efforts are underway all over the world to get 'more road for your money' by developing better methods for both design and quality control ...
Proposed National Signage Code: What It Would Look Like in a Real Community
Sep 11, 2009 |
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The 2009 National Signage Research and Education Conference, to be hosted by UC, will include presentation of a model signage code for the United States. In order to see what a community might look like if ...
Tunnels concentrate air pollution by up to 1,000 times
Aug 27, 2009 |
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A toxic cocktail of ultrafine particles is lurking inside road tunnels in concentration levels so high they have the potential to harm drivers and passengers, a new study has found.
Healthcare, the road to robotic helpers
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Robots are whirring away in factories all over the world, building cars, phones and cookers. Yet they can do so much more. Robotics for healthcare has been tipped as the next big wave, and Europe should be ...
Yawn alert for weary drivers
Jul 27, 2009 |
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We've all experienced it after long hours driving, the eyelids getting heavy, a deep yawn, neck muscles relaxing, the urge to sleep, the head nodding down... But, you're hands are still on the wheel and you only just stopped ...
Risky driving puts P-platers at high danger of crash
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Australia's largest study of young drivers has shown that risky driving habits are putting young drivers at a significantly increased risk of crashing, irrespective of their perceptions about road safety. The study surveyed ...
