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Investigating the Causes and Counter Measures of Heavy Truck Accidents: The Case Study of Sinotruk Related Accidents In Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Amigne, Miheretab (2019-10)

SINOTRUK accident has increased in Ethiopia day by day due to both drivers and vehicle factors. Primary and secondary data has been collected from different stakeholders explicitly to identify the major cause for SINOTRUK ...
Evaluation of the Effect of Molasses on Performance of Bitumen and Asphalt Concrete Mixtures

Worku, Melese (2019-10)

Bitumen was modified in order to increase the performance and decrease the cost of bitumen or for both purposes. This paper presents the effect of molasses on performance of bitumen and asphalt concrete mixtures and ...
Evaluation of Traffic Congestion and Level of Service at Major Intersections In Bahir Dar City

Simachew, Andargachew (2019-12)

The growth of traffic congestion on many streets and highways is a major concern to traveler’s administrators, merchants, developers and the community at large. Its detrimental impacts in terms of longer journey times, ...
RHEOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF BITUMENIOUS BINDER CONTAINING EGG SHELL POWDER

Yenesew, Bethelehem (2020)

Engineers particularly in advanced nations have been using modified binders to improve the performance of flexible pavements. They use different modifiers to augment the rheological properties of asphalt binder. And ...
RHEOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF BITUMENIOUS BINDER CONTAINING EGG SHELL POWDER

Yenesew, Bethelehem (2020)

Engineers particularly in advanced nations have been using modified binders to improve the performance of flexible pavements. They use different modifiers to augment the rheological properties of asphalt binder. And ...
ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF STREET VENDORS ON ROADWAY MOBILITY (A Case Study of Bahir Dar)

Mesfin, Awoke (2020)

The benefits they provide for urban poor and getting a self-reliance job of street vendors were studied by different Scholars. But very little was done in quantifying their impact on-road performance in terms of different ...
Pedestrian Gap Acceptance At Mid-Block Crosswalk Locations Of Road Crossings In Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia

Sewunet, Abebe (2020-02)

In Ethiopia there is low car ownership (2 cars to 1,000 people); so walking is the mode choice that has a lion share over other modes. While pedestrians move from place to place, there will be crossing somewhere across the ...
Road Traffic Crashes And Identification Of Black spots In Bahir Dar City Using Gis

Shume, Alemtsehay (2020-02)

Road transport is one of the widely used transportation systems and provides the highest proportion of transport services. However, the rapid development of road transportation has brought increased road traffic crashes ...
Estimstion and Modeling of Critical Gap for U-Turn Movement at Median Opening – A Case Study In Bahir Dar City

Melsew, Natnaile (2020-02)

Median openings are one of road features in urban road which are left intentionally for U-turn movement and their role play an important part on improving the capacity of the road specially the minor traffic stream. So ...
Geometric Design Consistency Evaluation of Two-Lane Rural Highways Using Operating Speed Prediction Models (The Case of Dejen to Debre-Markos Road, Ethiopia)

Mintie, Tilahun (2020-03)

Road geometric design in Ethiopia is made based on the design speed concept in which the design speed of the most restrictive geometric element is used as the design speed for a long road segment. Previous studies reported ...
Performance Evaluation of Hot Mix Asphalt Mixes Containing Natural Fiber

Mengist, Yeshambel (2020-03)

The most common road construction method in Ethiopia is flexible pavement, which is a hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavement. Hot mix asphalt design is the process of determining appropriate proportion of materials used in the mix ...
MODELING THE IMPACT OF ON-STREET PARKING ON TRAFFIC FLOW CHARACTERISTICS IN MAJOR ROADS OF BAHIRDAR CITY, ETHIOPIA

Bedru, Abas (2020-03-11)

Level of motorization and travel demand in Bahirdar city is increasing rapidly with its population. Providing effective parking areas for the vehicles is a fundamental part of transportation. The road facilities in Bahirdar ...
EFFECT OF DIATOMACEOUS EARTH FILLERS ON CHARACTERSTICES OF HOT MIX ASPHALT

Tilahun, Abeje (2020-03-11)

Various studies have shown that the properties of mineral fillers have significant effect on the performance of asphalt concrete pavements. This study was intended to investigate the effect of different content of mineral ...
IDENTIFICATION OF BARRIERS TO BICYCLING AND EVALUATION OF SUITABILITY OF SELECTED MAJOR CORRIDORS FOR BICYCLING IN BAHIR DAR CITY, ETHIOPIA

Getamesay, Abebe (2020-03-11)

Despite bicycling is fun, healthy, economical, efficient, and considered as one of a sustainable mode of transport, in Bahir Dar, the level of use of bicycle decreases time to time due to the existence of different barriers ...
PASSENGER CAR UNIT ESTIMATION AND MODELING AT BAHIR DAR CITY SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS.

Mengistie, Dawit (2020-03-15)

Urban traffic flow in developing countries is heterogeneous in nature. As a result, it is necessary to convert heterogeneous traffic into a stream of homogenous traffic by using appropriate passenger car equivalents for ...
IDENTIFYING ROAD GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS CONTRIBUTING TO ROAD CRASHES AND POSSIBLE COUNTER MEASURES THE CASE OF CHIFRA – MILLE – SEMERA - GALAFFI ROAD SEGMENT, ETHIOPIA

Mamo, Frezer (2020-03-15)

Rising of road traffic accidents is an increasing concern in Afar region. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the major road geometric characteristics contributing to road traffic accidents and possible counters ...
INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DESIGN, MAINTENANCE AND REHABILITATION

Firew, Haimanot (2020-03-15)

The design of thickness of the flexible pavement has taken the backbone place in determining the overall performance and providing high level of serviceability of the pavement structure for the heavy traffic loads under ...
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MAJOR INTERSECTION IN DEBRE MARKOS CITY, ETHIOPIA

Achamyeleh, Mahlet (2020-03-15)

Road network is a very important aspect of transportation system as it connects even the smallest towns and cities. Intersections are very important part of this network and are to be designed properly so as to handle the ...
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF CRUSHED CATTLE BONE ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ASPHALT BINDER

Fissiha, Hana (2020-03-15)

Several studies have been conducted with the purpose of searching materials which will modify bitumen resulting with good performance characteristics and permanent deformation resistance. In Ethiopia while one of the major ...
Assessment of Demand for High Capacity Public Buses in the case of Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia

Yizengaw, Mollalign (2020-03-15)

Reducing car use is a central topic in transport policy and research. One is the use of Mass Transport which services the public at a cheaper operating cost, with less amount of fuel, more safely and environmentally friendly ...

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