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Effect Of Information On Driver's Risk At The Onset Of Yellow, Nathaniel P. Burnett
Effect Of Information On Driver's Risk At The Onset Of Yellow, Nathaniel P. Burnett
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Intersection crashes average approximately 8,500 fatal and 900,000 injury accidents a year (1). At the onset of yellow at a high speed signalized intersection, a driver may encounter a region of the intersection approach, where they can neither stop safely nor be able to clear the intersection before the red indication. A wrong decision to stop when it would have been safer to proceed can lead to a severe rear-end collision. Conversely, a wrong decision to proceed through the intersection could lead to the driver running the red light and possibly causing a right angle collision. The traditional …
A Look At 20th Century Droughts, Vijay P. Singh, Ashok K. Mishra
A Look At 20th Century Droughts, Vijay P. Singh, Ashok K. Mishra
2011 Symposium on Data-Driven Approaches to Droughts
Droughts exercise a profound effect on the social and economic fabric of nations. Many nations of the world experienced droughts encompassing the full spectrum of severity, areal extent and duration. The result has been that the economic development was hampered and many countries have not yet recouped fully from the ravages of droughts. The first decade of the 21st century has also witnessed varying degrees of droughts across the globe. Therefore, we ask the following questions: (a) Do droughts affect every part of the world? (b) Are there similarities in major droughts around the world? (c) Are climate change and …