Special issue: Road safety

Special Issue

Special Issue on New Applications and Advanced Methodologies for Road Safety and Simulation

Safety and in particular road safety have become major concerns worldwide, due to the rapid growth in the number of vehicles and traffic accidents. Road fatalities are the result of several joint factors: they can be caused by drivers' errors, by vehicles' malfunctions and by issues related to roads environment. In the U.S., in 2010 there were an estimated 5.419.000 crashes (30.296 fatal crashe...

Introduction to the special issue on computer vision in road safety and intelligent traffic

The importance of road safety has brought technologies from different disciplines into vehicles, to make them more intelligent and more secure to drive. Computer vision has helped in many areas for better services and to fasten the process. Road transport and traffic management are such areas where robust visual techniques are highly advantageous, and they are used increasingly to automate dedi...

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

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It is with great pleasure that I introduce this specia l i s sue of Aging Successfully that focuses on Preventive Gerontology. Aging successfully is dependent on the individual himself or herself. While health professionals can act as a guide through life’s journey, it is only through one’s own efforts that the best outcomes can be assured. This issue provides tools that all of us can use to ag...