Construction Zones

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
Jalil Kianfar
Keyword(s):  
Construction Zones

scholarly journals Are highway constructions associated with increased transport incidents? A case study of NSW Pacific Highway construction zones 2011-16

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Pooria Sarrami ◽  
Patricia Lemin ◽  
Zsolt Balogh ◽  
Hardeep Singh ◽  
Hassan Assareh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Injury Severity ◽  
Highway Construction ◽  
P Value ◽  
Traffic Incidents ◽  
Road Users ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Construction Zone ◽  
Construction Zones ◽  
Construction Periods

Transport incidents are among the major causes of trauma and injury in Australia and worldwide. While improving infrastructure can decrease the rate of incidents, the required construction imposes challenges regarding simultaneous public use of the relevant road sections. This study focused on construction zones along the New South Wales (NSW) Pacific Highway. We aimed to investigate if the rate of people who had major trauma as a result of a transport incident in a construction zone was higher than the rate of people with similar incidents at other times. This was a retrospective study, conducted by screening the data of patients admitted to the trauma services, or who died due to traffic incidents on the NSW Pacific Highway 2011-2016. We identified 35 causalities who experienced a traffic incident within a construction zone, 19 of these incidents occurred during the construction dates and 16 before or after those dates. The rate of casualty in construction periods was 2.21 per 1000 days, which is significantly higher than the rate in non-construction periods (1.2 per 1000 days, p-value: 0.037). There was no significant difference between the age, injury severity score and mortality rate of casualties who had an incident during the construction dates and those who had an incident in non-construction periods. This study indicated that the rate of incidents increased at NSW Pacific Highway construction zones during construction periods. More investigation is needed to improve the safety of road users during highway road constructions.

Critical Logistics Support Enables Fast Track Construction for High Speed Rail

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Blaze ◽  
Jay Gowan ◽  
Stephen Byers
Keyword(s):  
Construction Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
Construction Zones ◽  
Made In

Paper and PowerPoint presentation format will describe process for much faster logistics and construction management of new high speed track construction and improvement of existing FRA track from FRA Class 4 to Class 5 and Class 6 standards on existing freight railway lines. This process involves an integration of the long materials supply chain together with rapid process state of the art construction machines. These machines have been used in both European and Chinese high speed construction projects. Huge gains in new track kilometers and miles per day have been made in the last decade on the machinery side of the equation. The authors will show several case studies. The critical key to these production rates has been in the integration of materials ordering and prepositioning. The economic advantage is that track time construction windows that delay other passing trains can be reduced at tremendous savings in service and operational costs to the operators already providing service in these new high speed corridors and construction zones. Examples and calculations are shown.

scholarly journals Identification and Evaluation of Landscape as a Precondition for Planning Revitalization and Development of Mediterranean Rural Settlements—Case Study: Mrkovi Village, Bay of Kotor, Montenegro

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Željka Čurović ◽  
Milić Čurović ◽  
Velibor Spalević ◽  
Milorad Janic ◽  
Paul Sestras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
Landscape Value ◽  
Responsible Attitude ◽  
Landscape Types ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Construction Zones

This paper presents a case study of the village of Mrkovi in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, showing the importance of landscape identification and assessment in planning the revitalization and development of Mediterranean rural settlements. The research revealed the methods of identification and evaluation of different landscape types. Moreover, it showed how such an approach could considerably contribute to the preservation of the space’s identity and quality by taking into account the existing characteristics of the space or the relationship between cultural and natural heritage. The identification of the landscape types was followed by the evaluation of individual elements and assessment of vulnerability in relation to the space’s natural, cultural, and visual quality. The first step in the process of preserving the elements that contribute to the landscape’s identity was the spatial identification of the cultural pattern of traditional terraces with drystone walls. The results of analysis indicate a high risk of degradation of the basic landscape value. The effects of future interventions in the space, especially the planned construction of a tourist resort, can be mitigated if they comply with the guidelines related to the rational use of the space and delimitation of the construction zones. This paper points out the importance of a responsible attitude and planned approach regarding the cultural and natural landscape of Mediterranean rural settlements.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM OF DUST LEVEL IN THE CONSTRUCTION ZONE AS A METHOD OF ECOLOGIZATION OF CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.E. Manzhilevskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Current State ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Reliable Monitoring ◽  
Dust Level ◽  
Local Construction ◽  
Construction Zones ◽  
Construction Works

The article analyzes the current state of environmental monitoring of atmospheric air near the construction or repair and construction works of the urban environment. The main direction of environmental monitoring in the context of local construction, i.e. the construction of housing complexes, micro districts where the construction site borders on already built and populated residential buildings, should be the control of air pollution, where special attention is paid to fine dust. Reliable monitoring of dust pollution in construction zones and adjacent territories is an important goal of improving the environmental safety of construction production.

scholarly journals Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Brent Luvaas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
City Street ◽  
And Performance ◽  
A Site ◽  
Photo Essay ◽  
Construction Zones

The sidewalks outside New York Fashion Week are lined with makeshift plywood walls. They are designed to keep pedestrians out of construction zones, but they have become the backdrops of innumerable “street style” photographs, portraits taken on city streets of self-appointed fashion “influencers” and other stylish “regular” people. Photographers, working to build a reputation within the fashion industry, take photos of editors, bloggers, club kids, and models, looking to do the same thing. The makeshift walls have become a site for the staging and performance of urban style. This photo essay documents the production of style in urban space, a transient process made semi-permanent through photography.

Performance of Temporary Rumble Strips at the Edge of Highway Construction Zones

2012 ◽  
Vol 138 (8) ◽  
pp. 923-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek Elghamrawy ◽  
Khaled El-Rayes ◽  
Liang Liu ◽  
Ibrahim Odeh
Keyword(s):  
Highway Construction ◽  
Construction Zones

Colors challenges in navigating autonomous vehicles

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (15) ◽  
pp. 282-1-282-6
Author(s):  
Dietmar Wueller
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Reflectance ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Road ◽  
Color Problem ◽  
Road Signs ◽  
The Us ◽  
Construction Zone ◽  
Color Filters ◽  
Construction Zones

Will autonomous vehicles ever be able to drive around safely? In Germany lane markers on streets are white. In construction zones temporary markers are installed on top of the standard ones that are yellow and they direct the traffic e.g. into shifted lanes. So, the only differentiation is the color. But what about the white markers at times close to the sunset? Then we drive into Austria and the temporary markers are turning orange. Or driving in the US makes the whole country a construction zone because markers are always yellow. Automotive cameras are often times not RGB cameras. They have other color filters to maximize sensitivity, which often times does not help differentiating colors. So does the spectral reflectance matter? Which impact does the illumination have? And there are many different ones like daylight at different times of the day, different kinds of streetlights, different headlights of the cars etc. Traffic signs create another color problem. We drive from Switzerland to France. In Switzerland the freeway signs are green and the major road signs are blue. When you cross the French border, it is the other way around. How can these problems be solved?

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