Oil can be produced from reservoirs by use of primary methods that use natural reservoir drive, secondary methods, involving a physical displacement of oil and tertiary (enhanced), in which additional types of energy support oil recovery. About 25-35% of original oil in place for light and medium oil and about 10% heavy oil could be extracted by primary and secondary methods. Injection of CO2 into the oil fields (CO2-EOR) is one of the tertiary oil recovery method. Carbon dioxide is used for increasing oil extraction due to the fact that: to maintain reservoir pressure, reduces the oil viscosity and facilitates its movement in the reservoir, reduces density and increase the volume of oil, interacts with rocks. Depending on the oil composition and the reservoir pressure and temperature injected carbon dioxide can displace oil from the reservoir miscible or immiscible. Additional 10-20% of the oil extraction over primary and secondary methods recovery can be obtained under the miscibility conditions, in immiscibility condition additional oil production is lower. EOR method selection depends on many geological, reservoir and economic parameters. These include: density, viscosity and composition of the oil, minimum miscibility pressure, the recovery factor and vertical and horizontal reservoir variability. Using the above criteria appropriate EOR method for given oil field can be selected. The five parameters: the reservoir depth, the oil density, pressure and temperature of the reservoir is used for the selection of oil fields suitable for miscible oil displacement.

The paper presents findings from research project Mobis which is aimed at developing a method of assessing safety of unsignalised pedestrian road crossings using video image analysis. Pedestrian and vehicle traffic has been recorded at selected zebra crossing sites in Warsaw and Wrocław, before and after installation of active signage systems SignFlash and Levelite. Speeds of approaching vehicles were measured and drivers’ behaviour was classified using video analysis.

The paper presents a comparison of effectiveness of systems such as SignFlash and Levelite based on changes in the mean and standard deviation of vehicle spot speeds as well as changes in speed profiles of vehicles approaching the crossings.

Results indicate that both SignFlash and Levelite active signage reduce mean vehicle approach speeds and have a positive impact on drivers’ behaviour.