Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in road safety, traffic and highway infrastructure management: Recent advances and challenges

F Outay, HA Mengash, M Adnan - … research part A: policy and practice, 2020 - Elsevier
For next-generation smart cities, small UAVs (also known as drones) are vital to incorporate
in airspace for advancing the transportation systems. This paper presents a review of recent …

Advances of UAVs toward future transportation: The state-of-the-art, challenges, and opportunities

A Gupta, T Afrin, E Scully, N Yodo - Future transportation, 2021 - mdpi.com
The adoption of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in numerous sectors is projected to grow
exponentially in the future as technology advances and regulation evolves. One of the …

Relaying data with joint optimization of energy and delay in cluster-based UAV-assisted VANETs

S Mokhtari, N Nouri, J Abouei, A Avokh… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicular networks are known for their dynamic topology, high mobility, and frequent
disconnections. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently used as instant …

Refining the joint 3D processing of terrestrial and UAV images using quality measures

EM Farella, A Torresani, F Remondino - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The paper presents an efficient photogrammetric workflow to improve the 3D reconstruction
of scenes surveyed by integrating terrestrial and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images. In …

3D reconstruction of a complex grid structure combining UAS images and deep learning

VA Knyaz, VV Kniaz, F Remondino, SY Zheltov… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The latest advances in technical characteristics of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and their
onboard sensors opened the way for smart flying vehicles exploiting new application areas …

Delineating Sight Occlusions of Head-On Traffic Signboards under Varying Available Sight Distances Using LiDAR Point Clouds

J Wang, Z Song, Z Zhang, Y Chen… - Transportation …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
It is essential to delineate visual occlusions of head-on traffic signboards under varying
available sight distances (ASDs) to improve road safety and guide maintenance. However …

Consistency analysis of RTK and Non-RTK UAV DSMs in vegetated areas

UG Sefercik, M Nazar - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lately, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) evolve into one of the most popular remote
sensing technologies by providing rapid and periodical acquisition of high-resolution …

Driver glare exposure with different vehicle frontlighting systems

PA Gil, C De Santos-Berbel, M Castro - Journal of safety research, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction: Highway safety performance at night has received less attention in research
than daytime, despite the higher accident rates occurring under night-time conditions. This …

Intelligent construction for the transportation infrastructure: a review

Q He, F Ghofrani, T Gao, P Wang, C He… - Intelligent …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Transportation infrastructure (TI) is a vital link for and critical component of societal and
economic development. A new area, called intelligent construction for transportation …

[PDF][PDF] Stakeholder perspectives on the adoption of drones in construction projects

VPC Charlesraj, N Rakshith - ISARC. Proceedings of the …, 2020 - academia.edu
Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and services based on them have been used
globally in various sectors including but not limited to construction, real estate, e-commerce …