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Climate-Neutral Global Aviation - are we on the right track?

Is climate-neutral aviation even possible, what would it look like, and how do we get there? It is difficult to imagine effective international climate action without making aviation climate-neutral, due to its significant and growing climate impact, and t ...

Business School Lausanne (BSL)2022

Measuring the Safety Climate of Academic Laboratories to Improve Safety Behaviours

Thierry Meyer, Damien Stricker, Nadia Gerweck

In 2005, two major accidents occurred at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Although there were no injuries, the material damages resulted in high financial losses. The management of safety was restructured as a consequence. One of the ma ...

2019

Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, is rapidly growing, both in terms of size and of number of applications. Civil applications range from mapping, inspection, search and rescue, taking aerial footage, to art show, entertain ...

EPFL2017

A BVLOS UAV for Lake Surface Imagery

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Htet Kyi Wynn, Ludovic Zulliger, Nawaaz Sidharth Gujja Shaik, Jean-Luc Liardon, Lukas Oliver Hostettler, Karl Johannes Kangur, Samuel Youcef Benketaf, Beat Marcel Geissmann

We describe the development of a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight) model aircraft (UAV). The broad design requirements included: 1. BVLOS Legal authorization by the Swiss Federal Aviation authority 2. Suitable for land and water take-offs/landing 3. More ...

2016

Modeling work zone crash frequency by quantifying measurement errors in work zone length

Mehmet Yildirimoglu

Work zones are temporary traffic control zones that can potentially cause safety problems. Maintaining safety, while implementing necessary changes on roadways, is an important challenge traffic engineers and researchers have to confront. In this study, th ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Tempelhof. Parc du pont aérien (Berlin, D)

Pierre-Marie Saurais

L'aéroport Tempelhof, situé au cœur de Berlin s'est éteint le 30 octobre 2008, laissant un vide à la fois urbain et sentimental. Tour à tour champs agricole, théâtre de parades militaires et des premiers essais du vol humain, puis berceau de l'aviation all ...

2010

SENSITIVITY OF RISK INDICATORS UNDER MOTORWAY TRAFFIC REGIMES CLUSTERED BY SELF-ORGANIZING MAP

André-Gilles Dumont, Edward Chung, Minh Hai Pham

In this paper, we present a method for determining motorway traffic regimes where the sensitivity of motorway crash risk indicators could be better understood. Motorway crashes are usually severe. If the crash risk could be monitored, it would be possible ...

2008

Adaptive cooperation between driver and assistant system to improve the road safety

Frédéric Holzmann

The last decades have seen the most important improvements of the safety on the road. But most of the accidents are still coming from the driver when a source of danger is not noticed or when the reaction is not correct during an unusual situation. Two way ...

EPFL2006

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