Road traffic crashes are fundamental problems being faced by societies that resulted in loss of life, injuries to human body and financial losses to the local and national economy. And caused by different factors related ...

In order to improve the performance of intersections in urban areas by offering suitable solutions for the problems found, performance evaluation of intersections is important for design, operations, and planning purposes ...

The ERA 2013 flexible pavement design manual is primarily used for structural design of flexible pavements in Ethiopia. The manual uses a catalogue of pavement structures for given traffic load and subgrade soil class. The ...

Failure to prioritize road maintenance can result in substantial economic losses and impede a country's development. Accordingly, timely maintenance is required, and it is crucial to establish maintenance criteria that ...

AJIP and NOC intersections are located in Bahir Dar city which are labelled as intersection locations by which more frequent and severe RTCs occurred of the city. This thesis aims to introduce Agent ...

The use of geogrid reinforcements has received more attention recently as a means of extending pavement service life, ensuring excellent performance, and lowering service and maintenance costs. Rutting and ...

Traffic collisions have significantly increased in Ethiopia. Finding "black spots" is the first and most important phase in the road safety study. A few studies in RTCs were carried out without using the best techniques ...

Speed bump is one of common traffic calming devices used in Road between Addis Ababa to Woldia City, Ethiopia. Due to low construction cost and easy installation method speed bump has widely used to reduce vehicles ...

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 ...

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 ...