Driving behaviour, driver style and road traffic accidents among young medical group

Fatalities from road traffic accidents among the young in Bahrain.

In Bahrain and other Gulf countries, road traffic accidents (RTA) are recognized as a growing public health problem. This study described the trend of fatalities from RTA in Bahrain among those aged < 25 years from 2003-2010. The proportional mortality ratios of RTA deaths (up to 30 days from the accident) among the young were compared with those of all ages. The average proportion of young mal...

[Medical aspects of preventing road traffic accidents].

A UK survey of driving behaviour, fatigue, risk taking and road traffic accidents

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present research was to examine associations between poor driving behaviour (DB), driving when fatigued (DF), risk taking (RT) and road traffic accidents (RTAs). DESIGN The study involved a cross-sectional online survey of clients of an insurance company. The survey measured DB (speeding, distraction, lapses of attention and aggression), RT and frequency of driving wh...

The Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire as a Predictor of Road Traffic Accidents

Driver Identification by Driving Style

From optimizing a car’s performance, encouraging safer driving to accurate insurance pricing, it is desirable to be able to identify a driver by his driving style. Using a car data supplied by MetroMile Inc., driving styles were analyzed and core features were extracted. Two learning models were investigated and evaluated:support vector machine (SVM) and multinomial logistic regression. High ac...