Abstract: Traffic incidents are a major source of travel uncertainty, imposing substantial costs on the transportation system. Sometimes, an incident can result in one or more secondary incidents, which can be particularly problematic. ...

Abstract: The Newtonian model has commonly been used to represent the viscosity of blood in the aorta, despite blood itself being a non-Newtonian fluid. This is justified where shear rates tend to be large. However, we hypothesized ...

Abstract: Extensions of sliding-mode adaptive observer are presented for state reconstruction of nonlinear systems with uncertainty having unknown bounds. The observer uses nonlinear gains that are smoothened ...

Abstract: Urban sprawl makes conventional transit less competitive and points to the need for more innovative and flexible demand-responsive transit systems in the future. To increase their efficiency, such systems can take advantage ...

Abstract: Concern over collisions between passenger cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) is growing, as more SUVs enter the market. However, little is known about the different roles that car drivers and SUV drivers play in such ...

Abstract: As water is becoming a scarcer commodity, savings in the irrigation sector could enhance water development in areas currently not being irrigated, and arrest the rapid environmental degradation due to waterlogging in arid ...

Abstract: Rehabilitation of the existing bridges is one of the most pressing needs in maintenance of the transportation infrastructure. As an example, more than 2,000 bridges in Kansas alone need to be replaced during the next decade. ...

Abstract: Nonintegrated multicolumn bents are the common type of substructure in existing bridges. Among all possible seismic defects in their behavior, capbeam–column joint behavior has not properly been acknowledged so far. Although ...