Civil Engineering Professor Panos D. Prevedouros, PhD discusses his opinions on infrastructure issues with emphasis on the City and County of Honolulu.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Bicycling at Night? Make Your Own Lane!
Friday Bonus: Not a completed product but not a Photoshop creation either. To be effective, the biker must be a steady one. More info here: http://www.altitudeinc.com/downloads/021609_bikelane_Boston.pdf
Interesting - but if the drivers aren't looking at the bikers to begin with, how can we assume that they'll even notice the laser projection on the ground?
Hawaii has quite a few trucks, and a LOT of lifted Toyota trucks. Those guys probably can't see the bumper of a car unless it's way out in front of them, let alone a bicycle projecting something on the ground behind them.
Interesting concept, that's for sure. Unfortunately I can't work out in my head that it'd be effective in a real-world application.
Panos D. Prevedouros, Ph.D. is a professor of traffic and transportation engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa since 1990.
Panos graduated from the Aristotle Univ. of Greece in 1984, and with Masters and PhD degrees in 1990 from Northwestern Univ. (Evanston, IL), a leading academic institution in engineering and transportation.
He chairs the Freeway Simulation Subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board. He was president of the Hawaii Highway Users Alliance from 2006 to 2008.
Panos co-authored a Transportation Engineering textbook and over 100 reports and technical papers. He received the 2005 Van Wagoner Award of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
He co-organized the 1st International Symposium on Freeway Operations (ISFO) in Athens, Greece, and the 2nd ISFO in Honolulu in June 2009.
Dr. Prevedouros served in the Transit Advisory Task Force in 2006 and in the Technology Selection Expert Panel in 2008 of the City Council of Honolulu.
He run for mayor of Honolulu in the 2008 elections and finished 3rd in the primary elections with 18% of the vote from a field of nine candidates.
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Interesting - but if the drivers aren't looking at the bikers to begin with, how can we assume that they'll even notice the laser projection on the ground?
Hawaii has quite a few trucks, and a LOT of lifted Toyota trucks. Those guys probably can't see the bumper of a car unless it's way out in front of them, let alone a bicycle projecting something on the ground behind them.
Interesting concept, that's for sure. Unfortunately I can't work out in my head that it'd be effective in a real-world application.
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