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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"rural road"”.
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A model for rural road maintenance in Zaïre
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Technology adaptation for rural road development in developing countries.
Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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An Analysis of the Local Rural Road Administrative System in Illinois
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Further development and application of computer-assisted creativity to rural road resources management projects
… the screening and packaging of ideas techniques. Rural road projects are an important part of rural development programs in the Third World countries. For some years the construction of such road projects, funded in part by international donor agencies, has been a subject of some controversy. Most …
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Crash avoidance by electronic stability control on Australian high speed rural roads: an analysis of braking interventions.
… has found that there are significant benefits to road safety associated with the addition of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) to passenger vehicles. The greatest benefit to Australia is for crashes on high speed rural roads that occur due to a loss of control. An investigation of what variables …
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Foundation Design of Low Volume Roads: Evaluation and Performance
<p>A majority of roads in the state of SD are low volume roads (LVRs). The SDDOT has developed simplified methods for LVR pavement thickness selection. These guides allow users to obtain recommended asphalt surfacing and base course layer thickness based on the subgrade support and the average …
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The Psychology of Driving on Rural Roads
Rural roads constitute the most dangerous road category with regard to the number of fatal accidents. In order to increase traffic safety on rural roads it is necessary to take into account not only their inherent properties but also their effect on behaviour. Gert Weller develops a psychological …
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Deploying an ITS Warning System for No-Passing Zones on Two-Lane Rural Roads
A new safety application, as part of ITS Advanced Rural Transportation System (ARTS), has been developed to be deployed on a two-lane rural road (Route 114), in Southwest Virginia. The route segment under study is subject to significant head-on accidents, as a result of two main conditions: 1- …
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Road Infrastructure and Rural Poverty in Ethiopia
… and declining natural resource base, tackling rural poverty necessitates an increase in overall factor productivity or a rise in the market rate of return of assets possessed by the poor. Towards achieving these objectives, the role of spatial integration of markets and the efficiency with …
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Unsettling Roads : Ethnographies of Dust across Rural Nepal
… themselves entangled with deployed methods of Road Building. Roads precede with expectations of stability and acceleration. In Nepal, and specifically Hatiya, they unsettle physically, atmospherically and metaphorically. The intrusion of the Mid-hill highway along the valley has lured the …
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Simulation of Crash Prevention Technology at a No- Passing Zone site
… percentage of the total crashes on two-lane rural roads. A detection and warning system has been devised and implemented at a no-passing zone site on route 114 of Southwest Virginia to address this problem. The warning system aims at deterring drivers from illegally conducting a passing …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
… two South Korean schoolgirls walking along a rural road near Seoul were hit and killed by a U.S. military vehicle. The country's Internet users (called ""netizens"") belatedly learned of the incident and mobilized themselves for nation-wide candlelight vigils that were held nightly during the …
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An exploratory study and analysis of secondary data of road traffic collisions in the United Kingdom resulting in human injury with the aim of influencing the design of products
… often relies on. The industry in question is road transport infrastructure. The industry is made up of numerous Government and private sectors all collectively responsible for providing a variety of products that makes the road network a safe place to drive for the public. Although the United …
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Quantifying the Safety Impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systems
… the rapid increase on traffic volume on American roads. This thesis describes the development of a safety model whose primary objective is to capture the benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) on safety. The specific ITS component that is examined in more detail is traffic signal …
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Foundation for a national road prioritisation model for South Africa
Inefficient road infrastructure investment in South Africa has led to five core policy failures: deterioration in road network conditions; neglect of citizens' constitutional rights of access to basic services; insufficient prioritisation of roads that best promote the general economy; an excessive …
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Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental and Resource Economics
… economics. In the first chapter, I ask whether rural roads can contribute to a reversal of tree cover loss. Prior literature shows roads to be strong drivers of deforestation; however, I hypothesize that in some settings the opposite relationship may hold. Roads may (1) increase the relative …
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Einfluss von Fahrzeuginnenraumakustik und -vibrationen auf die Geschwindigkeitswahl von Kraftfahrern
… set itself a high aim in 2001 in terms of its road safety policy with its objective of halving the number of people killed on EU roads by the year 2010. Since then a large part of the road safety work has consisted of carrying out cause studies and developing strategies for reducing the number …
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Investigating the influence of vehicular traffic on a major trunk road on rural air quality
… 60% by 2031. This means vehicular emissions from road transport may account for higher proportion of total emissions of pollutants resulting in air pollution with its attendant consequences. Although poor air quality concerns has often been linked to urban areas, many rural areas apparently have …