| Title | 1 |
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| Preface | 5 |
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| Contents | 6 |
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| A Multimedia-Centric Quality Assurance System for Traffic Messages | 9 |
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| Introduction | 10 |
| System Architecture | 10 |
| Traffic Message Filter | 11 |
| Scene Recorder | 13 |
| Scene Database | 14 |
| Transcoding Media Cache | 15 |
| Traffic Map Server | 16 |
| Traffic Editor Application | 17 |
| KML Exporter | 19 |
| System Evaluations | 19 |
| Conclusions and Future Work | 20 |
| References | 21 |
| Autonomous Multi-sensor Vehicle Classification for Traffic Monitoring | 22 |
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| Introduction | 23 |
| Related Work | 24 |
| Audio-supported Visual Self-training | 24 |
| Acoustic and Visual Classification | 25 |
| Self-training Evaluation | 26 |
| Audio-visual Online Co-training | 28 |
| Online Co-training System | 28 |
| Co-training Evaluation | 29 |
| Conclusion | 31 |
| References | 32 |
| Concepts for Modeling Drivers of Vehicles Using Control Theory | 34 |
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| Introduction | 34 |
| Driver Models An Overview | 35 |
| The Task of Driving | 35 |
| Characteristics of Human Drivers | 36 |
| Applications with Driver Models | 37 |
| A Driver Model for Multi-body Simulation | 39 |
| Model | 39 |
| Simulation Results | 41 |
| Getting Closer to Human Behavior A Perspective | 42 |
| References | 44 |
| COOPERS: Driver Acceptance Assessmentof Cooperative Services Results from the Field Test in Austria | 46 |
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| Introduction | 46 |
| Measuring Technology Acceptance | 47 |
| Methods | 47 |
| COOPERS User Acceptance Assessment | 49 |
| COOPERS Project | 49 |
| Methodological Approach | 49 |
| Results of the Field Test in Innsbruck | 50 |
| Conclusion and Limitations | 53 |
| References | 53 |
| Developments within the Scope of the German Test Site for Road Weather Stations | 55 |
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| Introduction to the German Test Site for Road Weather Stations | 55 |
| Results | 58 |
| Annual Reports | 58 |
| Benchmarking and Data Distribution Tool | 60 |
| Visibility Tool | 61 |
| Effects of Weather on Road Traffic Safety | 63 |
| Offline Analysis with mySQL-Database | 64 |
| Conclusion | 65 |
| References | 65 |
| Documentation of Flood Damage on Railway Infrastructure | 67 |
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| Introduction | 68 |
| Data and Methods | 68 |
| The Austrian Northern Railway Line | 68 |
| March River Flood Event 2006 | 69 |
| Data | 69 |
| Results and Discussion | 69 |
| Classification of Structural Damage for Different Important Railway Infrastructure Elements | 69 |
| Application of the Classification Scheme: Flood at the March River in 2006 | 71 |
| Criteria for a Standardized Documentation of Damage to Railway Infrastructure | 74 |
| Towards Implementation | 75 |
| Conclusion | 76 |
| References | 76 |
| ETC-Based Traffic Telematics Utilizing Electronic Toll Collection Systems as a Basis for Traffic Data Generation | 77 |
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| Introduction | 77 |
| The Need for Traffic Telematics | 78 |
| Electronic Toll Collection Systems as a Telematics Backbone | 79 |
| Traffic Data Capturing and Analysis | 80 |
| Sample Application 1: Traffic Monitoring | 81 |
| Sample Application 2: Traffic Statistics | 84 |
| Sample Application 3: Traffic Flow Analysis | 85 |
| Case Study: Czech Truck Tolling System | 85 |
| Conclusion | 86 |
| References | 87 |
| Extraction of Visual and Acoustic Features of the Driver for Monitoring Driver Ergonomics Applied to Extended Driver Assistance Systems | 88 |
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| Introduction | 89 |
| Non-intrusive Feature Extraction Approaches | 90 |
| Feature Extraction from the Visual Information | 90 |
| Feature Extraction from the Acoustic Information | 91 |
| Conclusion | 96 |
| Future Work | 97 |
| References | 98 |
| How Motorcycle Collisions Depend on Weather | 100 |
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| Introduction | 101 |
| Previous Studies | 102 |
| Meteorosensitivity | 102 |
| Road Surfaces | 103 |
| Weather Parameters | 103 |
| Methodology | 103 |
| Hypotheses | 103 |
| Research Questions | 104 |
| Weather Database | 104 |
| Accident Database | 105 |
| Cross-validation of Accident and Weather Databases | 106 |
| Defining a Variable for Rain | 106 |
| Rainy Days and Sunny Days | 107 |
| Results | 107 |
| Correlation of Weather and Collisions | 107 |