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Table of Contents 1 • • • • • • Health Impact of Traffic Jam Traffic congestion is a significant issue in urban areas. Traffic noise and traffic-related air pollutants co-exist in the traffic environment. Polluted air from road transport vehicles contributes significantly to air quality problems through vehicle emissions, which have various harmful impacts on public health. Traffic and its allied effects can have various adverse health consequences. There is evidence which has confirmed that exposure to traffic noise significantly increases the risk for heart-related diseases, such as high blood pressure, Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Twofold higher risk of The public health effects of traffic during congestion are associated with early deaths. Road traffic noise also has been shown to increase the short-term risk of death from specific diseases of the cardiovascular, respiratory, and hormonal systems. Moreover, people who live in areas with a higher vehicular burden and face most traffic stress also have the lower health status and higher depressive symptoms that people living in areas with less traffic. These findings suggest that traffic stress may represent an important factor that influences the well-being of urban populations. Adrenaline Rush and Other Health Issues Interestingly, studies have also shown that the level of blood adrenaline hormone increases in heavy-traffic compared with during low-traffic conditions. Also, the ability to estimate distance and rec...

• • Assessed the traffic congestion status in the port and industrial areas during different times of the day. • • Identified and ranked the reasons for traffic congestion based on opinions of different sociodemographic groups. • • Assessed the social impacts of traffic congestion. • • Evaluated the economic impacts of traffic congestion. Traffic congestion is one of the major barriers to the economic development of developing economies, resulting in severe social and economic impacts. The severity of traffic congestion in port and industrial areas is more thought-provoking than destructive barriers. The purpose of this research is to better understand the social, economic, and environmental effects of road traffic congestion in a developing city's port and industrial areas. This study adopted an on-site survey strategy to collect data from regular road-users by administering questionnaires, performing volume count surveys, and measuring travel time, delay time, and vehicle speed throughout the day. Along with documenting numerous social impacts, this assessment also assessed the impacts on stress through a four-point Likert-type scale. The congestion level in the four divided road sections was identified using the Level of Service index and based on respondents’ opinions. The delayed costs, fuel loss costs, pollution costs, and loss of vehicle operators due to traffic congestion have been estimated. The study found that excessive vehicles, narrow roads, ineffective public...

Smart cars, drones and car sharing are some of the ways smart cities will reduce traffic congestion. Read about 7 innovative solutions for cities. By With fewer commuters traveling to and from work each day, cities around the world are experiencing a temporary decrease in congestion. As a result, air quality has improved dramatically, showing us the positive environmental impacts that come with reduction in traffic. However, as things begin to normalize and commuters get back in their cars, cities will inevitably see a rebound in traffic congestion. This means that now more than ever, taking the time to implement key solutions for traffic reduction is vital. During peak traffic periods, many freeways and inner-city roads resemble parking lots more than highways, despite alternate transportation options like public transit and carpooling. In California, drivers deal with some of the most congested freeways in all of the U.S., the good news is you often have good weather while stuck in traffic. The bad news? You’re stuck in traffic. According to the Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission, traffic on major San Francisco-area freeways has increased by 80% since 2010. California is just one example. Major tech companies are taking their headquarters out of the suburbs and into citiesto give their employees an urban lifestyle. However, the sudden growth in these cities has turned the “traffic headache” into the “traffic migraine.” Although it may seem impossible, tech...

Traffic jams are a significant problem in urban cities that cause pollution and waste fuel, money, and time. Therefore, there is an urgent need to build tools that enable authorities to monitor and understand traffic dynamics and their causes. However, exploring these large complex data presents a challenge to domain experts. This paper proposes JamVis, a web-based visual analytics framework that leverages Waze’s multi-modal spatio-temporal data to this end. JamVis comprises two main components designed based on requirements elicited from domain experts. The first one supports the exploration of Waze’s traffic jam information through multiple linked views. The second component allows identifying events through alerts reported by Waze users about different problems (e.g., potholes, floods, or heavy traffic). A new algorithm called TST-clustering is introduced to perform event detection, which is an adaptation of the DB-Scan algorithm that allows clustering alerts by space, time, and type. Furthermore, to provide an overview of this algorithm’s spatio-temporal results, we introduce a novel visualization called ST-Heatmap. JamVis is validated through three usage scenarios analyzing different events in Rio de Janeiro. Traffic jams are a severe problem in urban cities that cause pollution and waste fuel, money, and time and, therefore, severely impact the population’s quality of living. This problem is significant in major urban centers where traffic jams cause billions of doll...

How much time do you spend stuck in traffic - late for a meeting, or trying to get your kids home from school? You could be forgiven for thinking not much thought goes into controlling traffic in urban areas. But behind the scenes, highly complex systems are at work. Katie Haylor heard more from Edinburgh Napier University's transport engineering lecturer Richard Llewellyn... Richard - If you take any big city within the UK, pretty much all of them these days will have something called an urban traffic control system, controlling all of the traffic signals within that city. Now traffic signal timings are set based on traffic flow. Historically we did that many years ago just manually and taking an average on a particular day, but these days it's much, much more high tech. So we've got detectors in the road and above the traffic signals they detect the flow at any one time and they adjust those green times that you see on a cycle by cycle basis. A traffic signal cycle is where we go from from red to amber to green and back again. And when you're driving in a city, if you're driving on on the main road into a city centre, what should be happening is you should be seeing some sort of linkage between those signals. So if you hit a green signal then as you get further down the street the timing should be such that your progression along that road is unimpeded. Now unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way and it doesn’t always seem that way because lots of different things...