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Journal articles on the topic "Hill roads"

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Terry, John. "Bodsberry Hill Unenclosed Platform Settlement, Near Elvanfoot, Strathclyde." Glasgow Archaeological Journal 18, no. 1 (January 1993): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gas.1993.18.18.49.

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Summary Excavation and survey work ahead of the new M74 road development, jointly funded by Historic Scotland and Scottish Office Industry Department (Roads), at an unenclosed platform settlement, with its accompanying field system, has yielded an Early Bronze Age radiocarbon date from a primary hut platform structure. Subsequent re-use of the single excavated platform stance is dated to the Pre-Roman Iron Age.

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Poongothai, M., and Gokulkathirvel. "IoT Based Accident Prevention System for Hairpin Bend Roads." Journal of ISMAC 4, no. 3 (August 1, 2022): 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.36548/jismac.2022.3.001.

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According to survey, 10% of the total vehicle accidents happen on curved segments in hill stations. It is risky while driving in bends and curves. In order to provide solution, an IoT based Accident Prevention System for Hairpin Bend Roads has been proposed in this work. The objectives of the proposed work are to provide a safe and comfort hill travel by avoiding accidents mainly at the Hairpin bends and U curves, and to alert the drivers of both the vehicles approaching the bend, by generating traffic warning signal that indicates the arrival of a vehicle ahead on the opposite side of the bend. The proposed system includes ultrasonic sensor to detect any vehicle reaching the hairpin bend and alert immediately the vehicles on the other side by enabling an yellow signal. In the proposed work, NodeMCU is used as a processing element which supports ESP-NOW communication technology to enable two-way communication. Therefore, this system reduces the incidence of vehicle collision especially in the forest or hilly region which has poor internet connection. To solve connectivity issues, it has been implemented with machine-to-machine communication protocol without internet.

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Dzüvichü, Lipokmar. "Empire on their Backs: Coolies in the Eastern Borderlands of the British Raj." International Review of Social History 59, S22 (July 3, 2014): 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859014000170.

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AbstractIn the nineteenth century, colonial officials relied heavily on coercion to recruit “coolie” labour for “public works” and to provide various support services in the North-East Frontier of British India. “Treaties” with defeated chiefs and the subsequent population enumeration and taxation were strongly oriented to the mobilization of labour for road building and porterage. Forced labour provided the colonial officials with a steady supply of coolies to work on the roads as well as carriers for military expeditions. In mobilizing labour resources, however, colonial officials had to create and draw upon native agents such as the headmen and interpreters who came to play a crucial role in the colonial order of things. Focusing on the Naga Hills, this article will examine the efforts of the colonial state to secure a large circulating labour force, the forms of labour relations that emerged from the need to build colonial infrastructure and the demand for coolies in military expeditions, the response of the hill people to labour conscription and its impact on the hill “tribes”.

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Gara, Guruh Sawita, and Muhammad Idham. "EVALUASI KINERJA RUAS JALAN KAWASAN TAMAN BUKIT GELANGGANG KOTA DUMAI MENGGUNAKAN APLIKASI VISSIM." Jurnal TeKLA 5, no. 1 (August 15, 2023): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.35314/tekla.v5i1.3378.

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The Dumai city area began to develop along with the rapid population growth with a total of more than 350 thousand people, the Dumai city government began to think about making a place of worship as well as a tourist nuance as a community recreation center along with a city green park adjacent to the hill arena park, the location of the hill arena park which is in an urban area will have a negative impact on the surrounding traffic conditions if it is not handled properly. The method used in evaluating the performance of roads due to traffic and surrounding development is using PKJI 2014 and the Vissim Student Version Software application. The results of the analysis using PKJI 2014 obtained a capacity value of 7869 Skr/Hour for Jendral Sudirman Road and 5988 Skr/Hour for HR. Soebrantas Road and 6925 Skr/hour for Jalan Raya Bukit Datuk. Of the three roads, the highest degree of saturation is on the road Raya Bukit Datuk obtained a saturation degree value of the existing conditions of 0,48. This explains that judging from the service level values being analyzed, the flow does not yet require repairs, either widening or other improvements.

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Wang, H., F. Yu, J. Xie, H. Wang, and H. Zheng. "ROAD EXTRACTION BASED ON IMPROVED DEEPLABV3 PLUS IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGE." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-3/W2-2022 (October 27, 2022): 67–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-3-w2-2022-67-2022.

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Abstract. Urban roads in remote sensing images will be disturbed by surrounding ground features such as building shadows and tree shadows, and the extraction results are prone to problems such as incomplete road structure, poor topological connectivity, and poor accuracy. For mountain roads, there will also be problems such as hill shadow or vegetation occlusion. We propose an improved Deeplabv3+ semantic segmentation network method. This method uses ResNeSt, which introduces channel attention, as the backbone network, and combines the ASPP module to obtain multi-scale information, thereby improving the accuracy of road extraction. Analysis of the experimental results on the Deeplglobe dataset shows that the intersection ratio and accuracy of the method in this paper are 63.15% and 73.16%, respectively, which are better than other methods.

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Maneesha, Alaparthi. "Road Safety at Ghats using IoT." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. VII (July 10, 2021): 132–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.36270.

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This paper describes how to overcome accidents at Ghat roads. In the developing countries accident is the major cause of death. If we look at the top 10 dangerous roads in the world we can see that all of them are mountain roads and curve roads. In the mountain roads there will be tight curves and the roads will be narrow. In these kinds of situations the driver of a vehicle cannot see vehicles coming from opposite side. Thousands of people lose their lives each year because of this problem. The solution to this problem is developing the Aurdino based project to provide safe and secure journey while travelling to the Ghat roads, Hill Stations, etc. It is provided by alerting the driver about the vehicle coming from opposite side. This is done by keeping a sensor in one side of the road before the curve and keeping a LED light after the curve, so that if vehicle comes from one end of the curve sensor senses and LED light glows at the opposite side. By looking at the LED light on/off criteria driver can become alert and can slow down the speed of the vehicle.

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Leni, Siregar, Tri Tjahjono, and N. Nahry. "Endogenous relationship of accident occurrence with speed, traffic heterogeneity and driving environment on inter-urban roads in Indonesia." Journal of Applied Engineering Science 18, no. 4 (2020): 475–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/jaes0-25837.

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Speed performances and characteristics of traffic have mostly been considered as homogeneous across vehicles. In countries where the roads are dominated by mixed types of vehicles, the heterogeneity needs to be considered. This study is aimed at modeling how traffic heterogeneity as captured in speed, speed deviation, and traffic volume determines the fatality rates and accident rates. Traffic volume, road geometry (bendiness, hilliness, bend density and hill density) and road surface condition (represented by IRI) become the independent variables in a simultaneous regression using structural equation model (SEM). SEM is adopted to represent the hierarchical causal effects between the independent variables and dependent variables. The data cover inter-urban roads in eight provinces in Indonesia from 2012-2016 and 2019. Speed is not significant in predicting accident rate, and speed deviation is not significant in predicting fatality rate. An increase in speed deviation lowers the accident rates; an increase in speed increases fatality rates. Road geometry and traffic volume negatively impact the speed deviations of all vehicle categories, indicating that when there is more traffic on the road, the speeds of all vehicle categories become more homogenous. Bend density, bendiness, hill density and hilliness negatively affect both the speed and the speed deviations of the vehicles of all categories The findings of the study can contribute to traffic policing and traffic safety improvement schemes for heterogeneous traffic.

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Arnaez-Vadillo, J., and V. Larrea. "Erosion models and hydrogeomorphological functioning on hill-roads (Iberian System, La Rioja, Spain)." Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 38, no. 3 (September 29, 1994): 343–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/zfg/38/1994/343.

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Santhoshakumara, L. Y. "Fabrication of Vehicle Transporting Mechanism for Hill Top Roads." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 6, no. 2 (February 28, 2018): 415–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2018.2061.

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Bati, Saru, and Thusitha Chandani Shahi. "Performance Assessment of Crash Barriers used in Road Safety: A Case Study of Malekhu Kurintar Section of the Prithvi Highway." Journal of Science and Engineering 8 (November 12, 2020): 65–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jsce.v8i0.32867.

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Hill roads in Nepal are comprised of critical geometry and limited roadway clearances. It causes high number of runoff roadway type of accidents with single vehicle. These accidents often carry huge number of fatalities and severe injuries. Installation of crash barriers is the most effective way of preventing such accidents along hill roads. However, the existing practice of construction of crash barriers does not show the satisfactory results. Therefore, this research aimed at the evaluation of typical crash barriers constructed along the valley side of highway. Analysis of the road accident of Malekhu-Kurintar section of Prithvi Highway record shows that this section has relatively higher accident rate and most of the accidents are runoff roadway type. Further, these accidents are mainly caused due to either the absence or the failure of the crash barriers along the valley side of the highway. On the basis of field records, kinetic energy absorbed by the crash barriers and their deflections was investigated by application of computer based analysis tool ABAQUS V6.10. It has given satisfactory results on the deflection of W-beam and plum concrete barriers due to the impact of vehicle moving in various range of speed.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hill roads"

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Troutman, Jacob Claude. "Leaders can be disciples a training program for the Blair Road United Methodist Church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Brundage, Emil H. "Seasonal road layout design in mountainous terrain using GIS with the side hill and least cost path methods." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10011677.

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Seasonal road design in mountainous terrain consists of four main phases: route selection, field investigation, surveying, and analysis. The first phase, route selection, consists of two parts: selecting control points at strategic locations, and then determining potential routes between those points. Two geographic information system (GIS) geoprocessing automations were developed to aid a road planner in determining routes between control points. Both automations utilized Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) ArcGIS software package. The first method developed was the least cost path method, which makes use of ArcGIS’s cost path tool to find a route between points following a gradual slope. The second automation was the side hill method, which utilized a variety of ArcGIS tools to maintain a uniform grade along the side of a hill between two points. The two methods were compared and contrasted based on control point locations. The least cost path method was determined to be preferable for main thoroughfares along flat valleys and ridge lines, while the side hill method was preferable for secondary roads that could be used to access steeper ground. It was concluded that the two methods can save time and increase accuracy of GIS road features for land managers planning new seasonal roads.

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Durden, Alyssa Shank. "Suburban Revisions." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7118.

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The word revise means to reconsider or modify as with text. If we think of the suburban landscape as a text, the culture of each era left documentation of their values, policies and way of life in the form of transportation networks and other infrastructure, such as Main Streets, squares and public buildings. While evidence of most of the everyday life of individuals of every era gets erased by the following era, infrastructure investments of each era are adaptively reused and remain to tell the story. This thesis documents the adaptive reuse of these suburban frameworks and develops a proposition for the appropriate next layer to accommodate a new culture of inhabitants. Focusing on second generation suburbs, using Gwinnett County as a case study, this analysis identifies three problems of the current suburban situation: the problem of abandoned strips, a demographic shift, and the need for place. As new strip highways develop, old strips decline leaving abandoned shopping centers and declining property values. New development continues to move north and out of the county, and middle class residents, for which existing auto-oriented suburbs were created, move as well. A new, poorer, and more ethnically diverse population inherits the auto-oriented landscape left behind. This phenomenon is particularly concentrated along the southern portion of the Buford Highway corridor. Those with more money move closer to new development, while those with less money have less choice and are found near declining strips with fewer services, poorer quality housing and lower quality of life. Finally, county officials have expressed a desire for defining "the epicenter of Gwinnett." I believe that there is no one "center" of Gwinnett, but a series of places defined by memory, design or events. I propose to improve the situation of these three problems with a light rail line that connects existing places and creates new walkable, livable places to improve quality of life. This connective piece will serve as a social condenser in lieu of a center, provide links between polar populations, and reactivate declining strips while creating a sustainable infrastructural spine for future growth in the region.

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BOUKADIDA, Yassine. "The i-motor: a system for end-of-line testing of electric drives for vehicles." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Cassino, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11580/83957.

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This work is developed within a current trend aimed at time simulation-based testing systems, especially those dedicated to complex process where different sub-processes interact with different dynamics. The Hardware in the loop (HIL) is currently considered as a viable candidate to fulfill the requirements of real time simulation for the testing of complex systems. Within this trend, a HIL simulation system dedicated to the testing of a variable speed traction drive is developed. It incorporates a power system made up of two DC-AC converters connected through their AC sides by a three phase inductor, and a control system built around a NI PXI interface in which is embedded a real-time simulation HIL system. The implemented control scheme considers a current-regulated voltage source inverter fed permanent magnet synchronous motor under a vector control strategy. The analysis the test results obtained considering the emulation of different accelerating and braking cycles, have clearly proven the potentialities of the developed system.

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Edwards, Ryan. "Fox Hill Road and other writings." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33231.

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Lawson, Joshua Lee. "The importance of geologic setting in developing groundwater from fractured, metamorphic rock aquifers in the vicinity of the Gwinnett County Airport and Collins Hill Road, Gwinnett County, Georgia." 2003. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/lawson%5Fjoshua%5Fl%5F200305%5Fms.

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Books on the topic "Hill roads"

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Gahlowt, R. S. Treatise on hill roads. Delhi: Standard Book House, 1992.

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Hill country backroads: Showing the way in Comal County. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 2001.

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Moir, D. G. Scottish hill tracks: A guide to hill paths, old roads and rights of way. 3rd ed. (Edinburgh): Scottish Rights of Way Society, 1995.

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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Region 3. and Maryland State Highway Administration, eds. US 113 planning study, from south of Snow Hill, Maryland to Delaware state line Worcester County, Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Federal Highway Administration, 1997.

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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Region 3. and Maryland State Highway Administration, eds. US 113 planning study, from south of Snow Hill, Maryland to Delaware state line Worcester County, Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Federal Highway Administration, 1997.

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Tasmania. Parliament. Standing Committee on Public Works. Ridgley main road, south of Ridgley to Pigeon Hill. [Hobart], Tasmania: G.C. Priestley, Govt. Printer, 1993.

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Highway 51: Mississippi hill country. Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

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Robert Peccia & Associates. Transportation Division. Hill County traffic safety improvements study. Helena, Mont: Robert Peccia & Associates, 1989.

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Seminar on Design, Construction & Maintenance of Hill Roads (1995 Shimla, India). Seminar on Design Construction & Maintenance of Hill Roads: Technical papers. New Delhi: Indian Roads Congress, 1995.

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Seminar on "Construction of Roads in Hill Areas" (1985 Naini Tal, India). Seminar on "Construction of Roads in Hill Areas", Nainital, July 7-9, 1985: Proceedings. New Delhi: The Congress, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Hill roads"

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Singh, Arun Kumar, Atasi Das, and Anand Raghuwanshi. "Taming the Hill Roads—A Case Study." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 671–87. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6701-4_44.

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Nautiyal, Akhilesh, Akhilesh Kumar, and Arunava Poddar. "Life Cycle Analysis of Low-volume Rural Hill Roads Using PCR." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 287–98. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5077-3_23.

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Mandal, Avik Kumar, S. Sailesh, and Pradyot Biswas. "Investigations and Mitigation Measures of Landslide Affected Areas in Hill Roads of East Africa—Case Study on Projects of Ethiopia." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 43–65. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6233-4_4.

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Virajh Dias, A. A., H. M. J. M. K. Herath, and L. K. N. S. Kulathilake. "Landform Geometry for Restoration of Mountain Roads and Landslide Hazard Resilience." In Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 1, 2022, 327–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16898-7_25.

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AbstractTraveling on a mountainous road is attractive but questionable under aggressive climatic conditions such as extreme rainstorms. Roads are often designed in different geological complexity overlaying upper and lower terrains. The complexity of slope geometries, potential deformities, ground discontinuities, soil-rock composite nature, factors incorporated in structural integrity, the complexity associated with infrastructure developments, and unstable landform have long been causes of the increasing cost of road constructions in hills. In many instances, landform geometries and the natures of slope observed in-situ allow us to understand many salient features that we need to know in the design to mitigate landslide threats. The extent to which we make the collective effort to gather many features of landforms and their static representations concludes its validity. Findings are more forced to be based on geometrical evidence of slopes and cross-checked with an appropriate design criterion. A provision should describe a design or construction method that is deemed to comply with the site-specific conditions. Such an approach will save the enormous cost of investigations, design, and simplification for numerical evaluations, and also contribute to an indirect approach to road restoration and improve an appropriate approach for resilience to landslide hazards.

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Asquith, Mark. "The Road to Norcombe Hill: Hardy’s Musical Evolution." In Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music, 18–31. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230508019_2.

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Rose, Daniel J., and Thomas P. Flynn. "Clues of Displacement: The Gentrification of Silver Hill." In Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 75–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11756-5_5.

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AbstractIn the United States, gentrification typically involves whites displacing African American, working-class communities. This work uses a political economy framework to better understand the clues displacement leaves behind. Specifically, this research investigates what happened to a former community in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known as Silver Hill, which was an enclave of mostly African American residents founded in the late nineteenth century just west of the city. Through archival research and investigation of the remaining traces of the neighborhood, we develop a theory of spatial erasure that highlights how wealthy white communities that grew up around Silver Hill subsumed and eradicated it. Specifically, racial capitalism played a major role in the abuse and neglect of Silver Hill. The neighborhood became surrounded by wealthy white developments which cut off road access to their homes. Today, a cemetery, two houses, and a litany of historical records offer clues about what was once a thriving African American community. Additionally, descendants of the neighborhood’s residents provide key information about its life and death. We discuss the implications of examining this history, especially as it pertains to the collective remembrance of Silver Hill.

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Salak, P., O. Nathan, O. Koc, and A. Pamsl. "French hill road tunnels: A pragmatic rock support approach." In Expanding Underground - Knowledge and Passion to Make a Positive Impact on the World, 1680–86. London: CRC Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003348030-201.

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Hasnu, Santosh. "Disciplining the Hill Tribes into Coolie Labour for Road Construction." In The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia, 137–55. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95957-0_7.

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Mainalee, B. P., H. Fujimura, and N. Morishima. "Preliminary landslide hazard mapping along a hill road in western Nepal." In Slope Stability Engineering, 1253–58. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780203739600-110.

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Beniwal, Nipun, Siksha Swaroopa Kar, G. Bharath, Amit Kumar, Krishan Saini, and M. N. Nagabhushana. "Impact of Mechanized Cold Mix Construction Method for Hilly Region Roads." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 3–11. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3142-2_1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Hill roads"

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Elsen, Renold, and Jenitha Deepa. "Motorist Warning System on Road Bends in Hilly Regions for Safer Riding." In International Conference on Advances in Design, Materials, Manufacturing and Surface Engineering for Mobility. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2020-28-0480.

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<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">Safety is a major concern addressed in various industries and most specifically in transportation industries. Road accidents are undoubtedly more frequent and are responsible for many permanent disabilities deaths worldwide. Many works have been done to improve the safety of different vehicles as the number of accidents is increasing. The main objective of this work is to further improve road safety by providing instantaneous warnings to drivers about hazards in their intended path in hilly region. This further it aims to provide a pleasant and peaceful hill travel and to avoid any possibility of accidents in hill curves. The roads in these hilly regions are always filled with many hectic and endless curves. These curves are classified into Hair-Pin Curves, Salient Curves and Re-entrant Curves. These curves offers partial or no visibility about the incoming traffic for the drivers. In this approach two ultrasonic sensors are used to obtain the velocity and the distance of the object placed in the curves. The signals from the two sensors are obtained, compared and the probability of the vehicles reaching the curves is predicted using a simple algorithm with the help of Arduino UNO module. Then the warning signals are provided to the lamps and thus the drivers can be alerted by this approach the accidents can be avoided effectively.</div></div>

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Radhamani, R., V. Harish, S. Jothibass, and S. Panjumin. "IoT – Driven Accident Prevention System for Hairpin Bend Roads in Hill Stations." In 2023 International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Data Communication Systems (ICSCDS). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icscds56580.2023.10104776.

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Yang, Charles, and Yu Sun. "Drive2Pass: A 3D Game-Based Interactive Driving Simulation System for Improving the Youth Driving Learning and Training using Machine Learning." In 7th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SOFEA 2021). Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2021.111618.

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Youths have a higher car accident rate, so to decrease the percentage, I developed a game that will teach players to practice safer driving behaviors [5]. It is meant to simulate real driving, and teaches the players key individual concepts about road safety. This game puts an emphasis on properly executing blinking, hill parking, and headlights. This addresses the problem in other games where they solely focus on steering and acceleration, as this game also includes other driving elements to promote defensive driving. The intended goal of this game was to teach beginner drivers proper driving etiquette in a safe, risk-free environment and become a potential alternative to the traditional method of driving on real roads.

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Pisani, Francesco. "The town of Collodi: the vernacular heritage." In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.15670.

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The town of Collodi consists mainly of two parts, the ancient village perched on the hill and a settlement in the valley. The ancient castle, of which we have accurate information only after the twelfth century, still retains many of the characteristics of a medieval village. The planimetric development of this small settlement is highly interesting: both the main roads and the building aggregates follow the lines of the maximum slope of the hill, giving the entire skyline a cascading pattern. In the past two centuries, the castle of Collodi has not seen significant expansions beyond the perimeter of its ancient walls. Only the external roads have been adapted to the traffic of cars while movement inside the walls has remained exclusively pedestrian. For this reason, the structure still retains, for the most part, the vernacular features of the small settlements of northern Tuscany. These characteristics can be traced back using both the construction techniques and the typological elements. Through a careful study and an in-depth analysis of the buildings that characterize its typical elements, the vernacular architecture of the town can be both safeguarded and valorised. This paper means to illustrate the first results of the study on the entire vernacular heritage of Collodi, both the materials used and the architecture, which resulted in the identification of the unchanged parts of the buildings and the distinctive features that have been preserved, as well as the definition of the necessary guidelines for their restoration

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Wing, Mark, and Richard Woolf. "Radnor Bridge." In Footbridge 2022 (Madrid): Creating Experience. Madrid, Spain: Asociación Española de Ingeniería Estructural, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24904/footbridge2022.229.

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<p>Two residents of southwest London living either side of the River Thames, Richard Woolf (architect) and Mark Wing (creative strategist) continue to drive an initiative to convert the community’s ‘need’ for a footbridge into a ‘desire’ to see it realised. Described in their initial paper which Mark delivered at Footbridge 2014 in London, the aim is to build a cycle and pedestrian bridge within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to connect two sides of the River Thames, separated by only 100m of water, namely;</p> <ul><li>On the east side (Surrey station) is Ham Lands – inaccessible, with leisure walks, nature reserves, heritage sites, polo grounds and sailing clubs, but with poor access to transport links. <li>On the west side (Middlesex station) is Strawberry Hill and Twickenham – densely populated, served well by major transport systems, with busy roads and places for education and work, but limited access to outdoor amenity space.</ul>

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Chung, Yao-Liang, and Jin-Jia Yang. "Application of a Mask R-CNN-Based Deep Learning Model Combined with the Retinex Image Enhancement Algorithm for Detecting Rockfall and Potholes on Hill Roads." In 2021 IEEE 11th International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-Berlin). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icce-berlin53567.2021.9720001.

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Engstrom, Carol J., and Guy M. Goulet. "Husky Moose Mountain Pipeline: A Case Study of Planning, Environmental Assessment and Construction." In 2000 3rd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2000-140.

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In 1998, Husky Oil Operations Limited and its partner formerly Rigel Oil, (purchased by Talisman Energy in 1999), constructed a 26.2 km pipeline in Kananaskis Country to transport sour oil, solution gas and produced water from Pad #3 on Cox Hill to the Shell Oil Jumping Pound Gas Plant for processing. Kananaskis Country is a 4160 km2 “Planning Area” that has both Prime Protection and Multiple Use designations. Situated just west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada it has considerable recreational and environmental value, including significant wildlife habitat. The original exploration and subsequent pipeline construction applications required separate Alberta Energy & Utilities Board (AEUB) public hearings with both involving significant public consultation. Prior to drilling on the lands that had been purchased more than a decade ago, Husky adopted several governing principles to reduce environmental impact, mitigate damage and foster open and honest communication with other industrial users, regulators, local interest groups and local aboriginal communities. During planning and construction, careful attention was paid to using existing linear disturbances (seismic lines, roads and cutblocks). A variety of environmental studies, that incorporated ecologically-integrated landscape classification and included the use of indicator species such as the Grizzly Bear, were conducted prior to and during the early stages of development. The results of these studies, along with the information gathered from the public consultation, historical and cultural studies and engineering specifications formed the basis for the route selection. Watercourses presented particular challenges during pipeline construction. The pipeline right-of-way (RoW) intercepted 26 small water runs and 19 creeks. Fishery and water quality issues were identified as important issues in the lower Coxhill Creek and Jumpingpound Creeks. As a result, Jumpingpound Creek was directionally drilled at two locations and all other watercourses were open-cut using low-impact techniques. To minimize new RoW clearing, substantial portions of the pipeline were placed in the ditch of the existing road. Husky attributes the success of this project to planning, broad community input and the co-operation and buy-in by the project management team and construction companies.

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Bhatt, Hema, and Promila Sharma. "Occupational Hazards Faced by the Agricultural Hill Population." In Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference. AHFE International, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100173.

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Hill terrains have always posed enormous challenges for human habitation. India, being a vast subcontinent, has an extensive area of hilly terrain. This paper highlights the challenges faced and the need of improving the occupational safety of hill population. For the present investigation data was collected purposively from Bageshwar and Almora districts of the Uttarakhand state in India. t was reported that hill women performed various tasks including on farm activities like harvesting, weeding, land preparation, transplanting, sowing. The main off farm activities performed by them include making firewood, making fodder, carrying firewood, carrying fodder, carrying milk/food. The domestic activities performed by them include cooking, washing, mopping, milking, collecting dung. It was found that almost 96 per cent of these tasks were found to be performed by women only while men did just the 4 per cent of these tasks. While performing these tasks the hazards reported by the respondents were attack of wild animal, slip/trip/falls, fog, flood, temperature extremities, torrential rain, earthquake, thunderstorm, snowfall, landslide, road accidents, and forest fire.

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Balaji, P. Anand, R. Aadhivijay, and P. Deepa Sharma. "Hill road safety assistance using piezoelectric sensor." In 2017 International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icecds.2017.8389967.

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Deng, Junpeng, Philipp Polterauer, and Luigi del Re. "Emission Aware Eco-Driving on Country Roads." In ASME 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dscc2019-8963.

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Abstract Eco-driving is a way to improve performance — mainly energy consumption — of road vehicles by computing an optimal speed and gear shifting profile based on vehicle data and road profile, e.g. slopes or speed limits. It mainly focuses on long haul scenarios such as highways, considering longitudinal movement only. Lateral acceleration of a vehicle is a critical quantity both in terms of comfort and safety, but its impact on fuel consumption or emissions is rarely considered or believed to be limited [1], as it does not affect directly the operating point of the engine. However, on country roads which usually present much stronger curvatures, lateral acceleration may be a critical constraint. In this paper, the impact of lateral acceleration limits on optimal solutions to multi-objective eco-driving is investigated. It is found that it may play an even more critical role than longitudinal acceleration with respect to fuel consumption and NOx emission. As a consequence, the choice of limits to lateral acceleration on curvy roads should be set very carefully in order to achieve a balance between energy saving, drivers comfort and travel time. The results of this work are validated on a high-feasibility Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system calibrated with data from Real Driving Emissions tests.

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Reports on the topic "Hill roads"

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Shaver, Greg, and Miles Droege. Develop and Deploy a Safe Truck Platoon Testing Protocol for the Purdue ARPA-E Project in Indiana. Purdue University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317314.

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Hilly terrain poses challenges to truck platoons using fixed set speed cruise control. Driving the front truck efficiently on hilly terrain improves both trucks fuel economies and improves gap maintenance between the trucks. An experimentally-validated simulation model was used to show fuel savings for the platoon of 12.3% when the front truck uses long horizon predictive cruise control (LH-PCC), 8.7% when the front truck uses flexible set speed cruise control, and only 1.2% when the front truck uses fixed set speed cruise control. Purdue, Peloton, and Cummins have jointly configured two Peterbilt 579 trucks for relevant combinations of: (1) coordinated shifting, (2) constant or variable platoon gap controls, (3) flexible or constant speed setpoint cruise control of the front trucks, and (4) long-horizon predictive cruise control (LHPCC) of the front truck. Confirmation of this functionality during platooning was demonstrated at the Continental Test track in Uvalde, Texas. In Indiana, on-road experiments were limited to single truck operation with long-horizon predictive cruise control, flexible set speed cruise control, and constant setpoint cruise control. Data from all of the above was used to improve the fidelity of simulations used to arrive at the fuel savings and gap control findings for hilly terrain per what is summarized in the findings section. Additionally, in early summer 2020, Purdue submitted to, and received improvement from, INDOT for a safe truck platoon testing protocol (located in this report’s appendix), which could not be implemented in Indiana before the end of the project because of COVID-19. Presentations of the subject matter at COMVEC, MAASTO, Purdue Road School, and the Work Truck Show are listed in the appendix.

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Perkins, Dustin. Invasive exotic plant monitoring at Fossil Butte National Monument: 2021 field season. Edited by Alice Wondrak Biel. National Park Service, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2288496.

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Invasive exotic plant (IEP) species are one of the biggest threats to natural ecosystem integrity and biodiversity, and controlling them is a high priority for the National Park Service. The Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) selected the early detection of IEPs as one of 11 monitoring protocols to be implemented as part of its long-term monitoring program. This report represents work completed during the 2021 field season at Fossil Butte National Monument (NM). From June 26 to 29, 2021, we recorded a total of 12 different priority IEP species during monitoring. A total of 763 priority IEP patches were recorded along 61.9 kilometers (38.5 mi) of 22 monitoring routes. Summer cypress (Bassia scoparia) was detected for the first time on monitoring routes along the Main Park Road. The highest densities of IEP patches were detected in several drainages and one trail: Sage Grouse Lek Drainage (32.7 patches/km), East Red Hill Drainage (19.4/km), Moose Bones Canyon (19.4/km), Main Park Road (19.0/km), West Fork Chicken Creek (17.6/km), Chicken Creek (15.0/km), Smallpox Creek (13.5/km) and the Historic Quarry Trail (11.1/km). The Fossil Butte Northwest, Wasatch Saddle, and North Dam Fork of Chicken Creek drainages were the only routes free of priority IEPs in 2021. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), creeping foxtail (Alopecurus arundi-naceus), and Japanese brome (Bromus japonicus) were the most widespread species. Creeping foxtail continues to increase parkwide and along the Main Park Road and southern drainages. The two brome species have declined somewhat since 2018, but these species can fluctuate widely based on precipitation. Flixweed (Descurainia sophia), whitetop (Cardaria sp.), and quackgrass (Elymus repens) all appear to have declined since 2018 and their previous highs in earlier years. Control efforts by park staff are likely helping to prevent some IEP increases in the park. Network staff plan to return to Fossil Butte NM for an eighth round of monitoring in 2023.

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Pstuty, Norbert, Mark Duffy, Dennis Skidds, Tanya Silveira, Andrea Habeck, Katherine Ames, and Glenn Liu. Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network Geomorphological Monitoring Protocol: Part I—Ocean Shoreline Position, Version 2. National Park Service, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2293713.

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Following a review of Vital Signs – indicators of ecosystem health – in the coastal parks of the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network (NCBN), knowledge of shoreline change was ranked as the top variable for monitoring. Shoreline change is a basic element in the management of any coastal system because it contributes to the understanding of the functioning of the natural resources and to the administration of the cultural resources within the parks. Collection of information on the vectors of change relies on the establishment of a rigorous system of protocols to monitor elements of the coastal geomorphology that are guided by three basic principles: 1) all of the elements in the protocols are to be based on scientific principles; 2) the products of the monitoring must relate to issues of importance to park management; and 3) the application of the protocols must be capable of implementation at the local level within the NCBN. Changes in ocean shoreline position are recognized as interacting with many other elements of the Ocean Beach-Dune Ecosystem and are thus both driving and responding to the variety of natural and cultural factors active at the coast at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. The direction and magnitude of shoreline change can be monitored through the application of a protocol that tracks the spatial position of the neap-tide, high tide swash line under well-defined conditions of temporal sampling. Spring and fall surveys conducted in accordance with standard operating procedures will generate consistent and comparable shoreline position data sets that can be incorporated within a data matrix and subsequently analyzed for temporal and spatial variations. The Ocean Shoreline Position Monitoring Protocol will be applied to six parks in the NCBN: Assateague Island National Seashore, Cape Cod National Seashore, Fire Island National Seashore, Gateway National Recreation Area, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, and Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. Monitoring will be accomplished with a Global Positioning System (GPS )/ Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) unit capable of sub-meter horizontal accuracy that is usually mounted on an off-road vehicle and driven along the swash line. Under the guidance of a set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) (Psuty et al., 2022), the monitoring will generate comparable data sets. The protocol will produce shoreline change metrics following the methodology of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System developed by the United States Geological Survey. Annual Data Summaries and Trend Reports will present and analyze the collected data sets. All collected data will undergo rigorous quality-assurance and quality-control procedures and will be archived at the offices of the NCBN. All monitoring products will be made available via the National Park Service’s Integrated Resource Management Applications Portal.

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Rich, Megan, Charles Beightol, Christy Visaggi, Justin Tweet, and Vincent Santucci. Vicksburg National Military Park: Paleontological resource inventory (sensitive version). National Park Service, March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2297321.

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Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) was established for its historical significance as a one of the principle military sieges resulting in a turning point during the American Civil War. The steep terrain around the city of Vicksburg was integral in the military siege, providing high vantage points and a substrate that was easy to entrench for the armies, but unknown to many is the fossil content, particularly a diversity of fossil mollusks. These fossils at VICK are important paleontological resources which have yet to receive focused attention from park staff, visitors, and researchers. The park’s geology is dominated by windblown silt from the last Ice Age which overlays river-transported gravels and bedrock of the late Oligocene–early Miocene-age Catahoula Formation or early Oligocene Vicksburg Group. The park is home to the type section (a geological reference locality upon which a formation is based) for the Mint Spring Formation, one of the most fossiliferous formations in this group (Henderson et al. 2022). Beginning roughly 32 million years ago (Dockery 2019), the early Oligocene deposits of the Vicksburg Group were deposited as the sea level along the Gulf Coast shore repeatedly rose and fell. The eponymously named Vicksburg Group is comprised of, from oldest to youngest, the Forest Hill, Mint Spring, Marianna Limestone, Glendon Limestone, Byram, and Bucatunna Formations. Each of these formations are within VICK’s boundaries, in addition to outcrops of the younger Catahoula Formation. Paleozoic fossils transported by the ancestral Mississippi River have also been redeposited within VICK as pre-loess stream gravels. Overlying these layers is the Quaternary-age silt which composes the loess found throughout VICK, meaning the park’s fossils span the entire Phanerozoic Eon. The fossils of VICK consist mostly of near-shore marine Oligocene invertebrates including corals, bryozoans, bivalves, gastropods, scaphopods, ostracods, and more, though terrestrial and freshwater snails of the loess, microfossils, plant fossils, occasional vertebrates, and others can also be found in the park. Notable historical figures such as Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Charles Lyell, and John Wesley Powell all collected fossils or studied geology in the Vicksburg area. The Vicksburg Group is culturally relevant as well, as the Glendon Limestone Formation has been identified by its embedded fossils as a source rock for Native American effigy pipes. This paleontological resource inventory is the first of its kind for VICK. Although Vicksburg fossils have most recently been studied as part of the Gulf Coast Inventory & Monitoring Network (Kenworthy et al. 2007), the park has never received a comprehensive, dedicated fossil inventory before this report. At least 27 fossil species, listed in Appendix B, have been named and described from specimens collected from within VICK’s lands, and VICK fossils can be found at six or more non-NPS museum repositories. Beginning in January 2022, field surveys were undertaken at VICK, covering nearly all the park’s wooded areas, streams, and other portions beyond the preserved trenches and tour road. Fossils were collected or observed at 72 localities. These specimens will be added into VICK’s museum collections, which previously contained no paleontological resources. Considering the minimal attention dedicated to these resources in the past, these newly acquired fossil specimens may be used in the future for educational, interpretive, or research purposes. Future park construction needs should take into account the protection of these resources by avoiding important localities or allowing collection efforts before localities become inaccessible or lost.

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