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- TRF - 2014
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TRF - 2014
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[Conference-Abstract]Sight loss can affect a person’s independence more than any disability. Unsurprisingly many people who lose their sight never go out unaccompanied after facing difficulties they encounter by going to various places by ...
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Assessing the appropriateness of providing separate openings for U-turns at signalized intersections [Conference-Abstract]Generally the right turns along with the U turns is one of the main contributory factors for the delays at signalized intersections. If any intersection is experiencing a high amount of U turns, the effective time that can ...
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[Conference-Abstract]In recent years, Srilanka has an unprecedented scale of adding new roads and expressways through funding from various foreign agencies. During last few years, more than 4500 km length of ‘A’ and ‘B’class has already been ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Interlocking concrete block pavements are used to pave walkways, parking lots, roadside pavements, open spaces, religious places etc. where people used to walk. The pavements are subjected to heavy thermal loads during day ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Various locations of Colombo City are frequently affected by traffic congestion daily. This may be due to insufficient road capacity during peak hours. But other times it is due to various incidents that occur here and ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Sri Lanka has been thriving through rapid development process with the ending of the civil conflict. Currently people of Sri Lanka are experiencing a local industrial revolution especially in highway and transportation ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Declaring open the Southern expressway in November 2011 marks a major milestone of the future road network development in Sri Lanka. Ensuring road safety is one of the key considerations during the operational phase of an ...
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[Conference-Abstract]In highway safety plan; identification of hazardous locations on highways is one of the most important factors. In this study the geometric of road is considered to identify the hazardous locations with the concern of ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Southern Expressway, the first ever access controlled expressway in Sri Lanka was started to function in year 2011.Total road length from Kottawa to Pinnaduwa is 126 km and there are eleven interchanges within that length. ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Road crashes impose large human and financial costs on society. Each accident consist economic cost and social cost of pain, grief, and suffering of families of the victims. It also has an adverse impact on the resources ...
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[Conference-Abstract]The development of roads improve the connectivity, reduce regional disparity, open up new markets, generate employment opportunities and thereby bring benefits to majority of the population reducing poverty. However, some ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Around 2,250 number of people die annually in Sri Lanka from road accidents. In 2013, the heavy vehicle percentage of the country is 8% but its involvement in fatal crashes is 21%. Therefore it is evident that heavy vehicles ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Traffic congestion is a condition on road networks that occurs as use increases and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queuing. As demand approaches the capacity of a road (or of ...
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[Conference-Abstract]A flight is said to be delayed when an airline flight takes off and/or lands later than its scheduled time. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) considers a flight to be delayed when it is 15 minutes later than its ...
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Lessons learnt from humanitarian logistics of the short term tsunami reactions in Sri Lanka in 2004 [Conference-Abstract]In 2004, short-term humanitarian logistics and supply chain for the tsunami relief operations were carried out mainly by the Sri Lankan government’s formal leadership with the integrated support of community, NGOs, military ...
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[Conference-Abstract]The process of how people recognize spatial configurations and use them is an important subject for understanding of human walking pattern. Understanding of human walking pattern play a vital role in pedestrian pathway ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) concept is new to Sri Lanka and considered as a powerful tool for supply chain integration. Most of the third party logistics companies tend to implement various expensive ERP systems ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Sri Lanka as middle income earning country, delivers health care facilities to the general public on free of charge, through government hospitals network. The main aim of the government is to provide superior public health ...
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[Conference-Abstract]Reliable travel time estimation for a given route is important in transport planning. Even though the developed countries in the world have different methods of forecasting travel time from a simple road network to a complex ...