As a healthier and more sustainable way of mobility, cycling has been advocated by literature policy. However, current trends in bicyclist crash fatalities suggest deficiencies roadway design protecting these vulnerable road users. The lack data is common challenge for studying bicyclists' safety, behavior, comfort levels under different contexts. To understand behavioral physiological response...

In recent years, cycling has become an increasingly popular transportation mode around the world. comparison with other modes of transportation, is economical and energy efficient. While many studies have been conducted for analysis bicycle safety, most were limited in exposure data on-street data. This study tries to improve current safety performance functions crashes at urban corridors by ut...

Florida has a severe problem with pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities. Recent trends show that Florida’s pedestrian fatality rate is almost double the national average. Traditional safety programs rely on crash data to develop safety campaigns or countermeasures to increase safety. Since crash data are not readily available and a long time has to pass before meaningful data is collected, a “ris...

Most individuals prefer bicycling separated from motor traffic. However, cycle tracks (physically separated bicycle-exclusive paths along roads, as found in The Netherlands) are discouraged in the USA by engineering guidance that suggests that facilities such as cycle tracks are more dangerous than the street. The objective of this study conducted in Montreal (with a longstanding network of cyc...

BACKGROUND Trauma is the most prevalent cause of death in the young. Insight into cause and time of fatal pediatric and adolescent trauma is important for planning trauma care and preventive measures. Our aim was to analyze cause, severity, mode and seasonal aspects of fatal pediatric trauma. METHODS Review of all consecutive autopsies for pediatric fatal trauma during a 10-year period within...

This paper proposes an efficient and effective scheme to applying the sliding window approach popular in computer vision to 3D data. Specifically, the sparse nature of the problem is exploited via a voting scheme to enable a search through all putative object locations at any orientation. We prove that this voting scheme is mathematically equivalent to a convolution on a sparse feature grid and...

Research has shown that road lane width impacts on driver behaviour. This literature review provides guidelines to assist in the design, construction and retrofitting of urban roads to accommodate road users' safety requirements. It focuses on the impacts of lane widths on cyclists and motor vehicle safety behaviour. The literature review commenced with a search of library databases. Peer revie...

OBJECTIVES We quantified health benefits of transportation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). METHODS Statistics on travel patterns and injuries, physical activity, fine particulate matter, and GHGE in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, were input to a model that calculated the health impacts of walking and bicycling short distances usually traveled by car or driving l...