background: although visual impairment of drivers is a very important risk factor for car accident, a few published papers have explored this issue in iran. this study aims to evaluate the visual fitness of public vehicle drivers in kerman province, southeast of iran. methods: a total of 4,003 public vehicle drivers were examined by one ophthalmologist for visual fitness in kerman province betw...

prevalence of chronic disease could be adversely having an effect on the capability of the driver. in addition, it must increase probability of accidents. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between chronic medical conditions and contribution in crashes among drivers. in this cross-sectional study, the populations were professional truck drivers. the numbers of 323 people were...

In this paper, a force-controllable compact actuator module for a wearable hand exoskeleton system is proposed. To interact with virtual objects naturally with a hand exoskeleton, a small actuator module, which can generate the desired force accurately, is highly required. In the proposed actuator module, a series elastic actuator (SEA) mechanism was applied for the force mode control. Based on...

Fatal motor vehicle intersection crashes occurring in Norway in the years 2005-2007 were analyzed to identify causation patterns among their underlying contributing factors, and also to assess if the data collection and documentation procedures used by the Norwegian in-depth investigation teams produces the information necessary to do causation pattern analysis. 28 fatal accidents were analyzed...

A monitoring system is designed in where it receives sensory data via wireless sensor network and further processes the data to indicate the current driving aptitude of the driver. Analyzing information related to fatigue using two distinct methods eye movement monitoring and bio signal processing. It is critical that several sensors are integrated and synchronized for a more realistic evaluati...

The two main research branches in intelligent vehicles field are Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) [1] and autonomous driving [2]. ADAS generally work on predefined enviroment and limited scenarios such as highway driving, low speed driving, night driving etc. In such situations this systems have sufficiently high performance and the main features that allow their large diffusion and th...

occupational road traffic crashes account for a large portion of killed and seriously injured road traffic victims. several organizations have introduced driver-training programs in order to determine a safety culture and improve the safety of employees and society, as well as to comply with insurance company requests to reduce risks. the aim of these programs is to identify and promote desirab...

Removing the human driver from the control loop by the use of autonomous vehicles and the integration of these with the traffic management infrastructure is a challenging long-term vision for the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Setting out from a recently proposed urban infrastructure that allows for autonomous vehicles to individually reserve space and time inside an interse...

The native UK vehicle fleet is right hand drive (RHD) with a corresponding road infrastructure, presenting unique challenges to the increasing numbers of mainland European left hand drive (LHD) heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) using UK roads. This paper analyses the nature and circumstances of HGV accidents in the UK, paying particular attention to LHD HGVs and the causal factors exhibited. Using in...