Ahmad A. A. Alkhatib^*, Adnan A. Hnaif, Thaer Sawalha

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 637-656, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037345

Abstract Large cities suffer from traffic congestion, particularly at intersections, due to a large number of vehicles, which leads to the loss of time by increasing carbon emissions, including fuel consumption. Therefore, the need for optimising the flow of vehicles at different intersections and reducing the waiting time is a critical challenge. Conventional traffic lights have been used to control traffic flow at different intersections and have been improved to become more efficient by using different algorithms, sensors and cameras. However, they also face some challenges, such as high-cost installation, operation, and maintenance issues. This paper develops a new system based… More >

Alla Abbas Khadir¹, Seyed Amin Hosseini Seno^1,2,*, Baydaa Fadhil Dhahir^2,3, Rahmat Budiarto⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.2, pp. 2223-2234, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032316

Abstract Fog computing became a traditional OffLad Destination (OLD) to compute the offloaded tasks of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Nevertheless, the limited computing resources of the fog node leads to re-offload these tasks to the neighboring fog nodes or the cloud. Thus, the IoV will incur additional offloading costs. In this paper, we propose a new offloading scheme by utilizing RoadSide Parked Vehicles (RSPV) as an alternative OLD for IoV. The idle computing resources of the RSPVs can compute large tasks with low offloading costs compared with fog nodes and the cloud. Finally, a performance evaluation of the proposed scheme… More >

Xiaoxuan Zhu¹, Xueyan Wang², Li Lei^1,*, Yuting Zhao¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.2, pp. 661-679, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020427

Abstract In this study, numerical simulations were used to explore the effects of roadside green belt, urban street spatial layout, and wind speed on vehicle exhaust emission diffusion in street canyon. The diffusion of different sized particles in the street canyon and the influence of wind speed were investigated. The individual daily average pollutant intake was used to evaluate the exposure level in a street canyon microenvironment. The central and leeward green belts of the road were the most conducive to the diffusion of pollutants, while the positioning of the green belts both sides of a road was least conducive to… More >

Khattab Alheeti¹, Abdulkareem Alaloosy¹, Haitham Khalaf², Abdulkareem Alzahrani^3,*, Duaa Al_Dosary⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3311-3319, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019773

Abstract Self-driving and semi-self-driving cars play an important role in our daily lives. The effectiveness of these cars is based heavily on the use of their surrounding areas to collect sensitive and vital information. However, external infrastructures also play significant roles in the transmission and reception of control data, cooperative awareness messages, and caution notifications. In this case, roadside units are considered one of the most important communication peripherals. Random distribution of these infrastructures will overburden the spread of self-driving vehicles in terms of cost, bandwidth, connectivity, and radio coverage area. In this paper, a new distributed roadside unit is proposed… More >

Fulu Wei^1,2, Zhenggan Cai¹, Yongqing Guo^1,*, Pan Liu², Zhenyu Wang³, Zhibin Li²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.3, pp. 753-767, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.014661

Abstract The differences in traffic accident severity between urban and rural areas have been widely studied, but conclusions are still limited. To explore the factors influencing the occurrence of roadside accidents in urban and rural areas, 3735 roadside traffic accidents from 2017 to 2019 were analyzed. Fourteen variables from the aspects of driver, vehicle, driving environment, and other influencing factors were selected to establish a Bayesian binary logit model of roadside crashes. The deviance information criterion and receiver operating characteristic curve were used to test the goodness of fit for the traffic crash model. The results show that: (1) the Bayesian… More >

Chichizola GA, AE Rovere, SL Gonzalez

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.87, pp. 265-273, 2018, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2018.87.265

Abstract The Onagraceae are a well-defined family of flowering plants much used by man. Many representatives of this group, which contains 75 species belonging to 8 genera, are indigenous to Argentina, and 19% of these are commonly found throughout the country. Many Onagraceae are ruderal and promote the subsequent establishment of other species, thus contributing to the restoration of degraded areas. Since it is important to know the characteristics of seeds to be used in restoration projects, we studied the basic germination physiology of Oenothera odorata Jacq., a ruderal plant indigenous to Argentina. Material was collected from roadsides and embankments along… More >

W. Uddin¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.5, No.3, pp. 269-278, 2004, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2004.005.269

Abstract This paper presents the results of a three-dimensional finite element study to simulate impacts of the models of a car and a pickup truck against a model of modified thrie-beam guardrail and to analyze the crashworthiness of the roadside guardrail. Nonlinear springs were used to simulate the rotation of the post below ground level. The simulation results of an event of a pickup truck impacting the modified thrie-beam guardrail model are presented. The ``reduced'' version of the pickup truck model is redirected after impact and leaves the guardrail without any significant problem. These results compare well with the results of… More >