List of Acronyms ANPR: Automatic Number Plate Recognition CBD: Central Business Districts PT: Public Transport RUC: Road User Charging TMP: Transportation Master Plan ZTL: Zone a Traffico Limitato (Zonal Access Control System in Rome) Introduction Given the finite resources on Earth, it is imperative for individuals to utilise them efficiently. As road networks represent a…
Healthy or harmful? Blue light is light located in the electromagnetic spectrum between 415 nm and 495 nm wavelengths. On a sunny day we see the sky in blue. This is because blue light with short wavelength interacts with molecules in the air and allows us to see the sky blue. What is the…
A Review of Accident Hotspots Traffic safety is one of the major problems of modern societies, and thousands of people are killed or injured in traffic accidents every year. Instead of traditional approaches to traffic safety, the concept of “Vision Zero”, a system approach to traffic safety, has emerged. This approach aims to eliminate…
Transportation planning and engineering is a complex job and the professionals benefit from the help of tools such as simulation softwares and CAD platforms. Besides that analysis and design is not the only task in your daily work life. Visualization of your work is another significant factor. And sometimes you need an inspiration for the…
If you are wearing green eyeglasses, then you are going to see the world green. But is it green in reality? No. It just looks green to you because of the lenses that you are wearing. Well what if you change it with a pink one? I have taken a course which is called…
In 1906, physicist Robert W. Wood invented the fisheye lens using “a bucket of water, a pinhole camera, mirrored glass, and a lot of light”. The goal of the inventor was to create an image that would mimic how a fish sees the world underwater. The physicist’s curiosity to see the world from a fish’s…