In Jordan, traffic accidents constitute a major health problem. They are considered the second leading cause of death. This paper investigated the characteristics of traffic accidents in Jordan and evaluated the safety impact of policy measures undertaken in 2008, including intensification of police enforcement and implementation of traffic law with stiff penalty levels. To accomplish these obj...

BACKGROUND Traffic accidents are the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults in Chile. However, few studies have examined this behavior among this age group. Parental practices have a great influence on risk behaviors in adolescents, such as substance use, sexuality and violence, among others. Specifically, we propose that these practices will influence pedestrian risk ...

The objective of the study is to measure the risk of pedestrian and bicyclist in urban traffic through an analysis of real-world accident data. The kinematics and injury mechanisms for both pedestrian and bicyclists are investigated to find the correlation of injury risks with injury related parameters. For this purpose, firstly 338 cases are selected as a sample from an IVAC accident database ...

This paper proposes a Safety-Aware Navigation Application (SANA) for pedestrian protection in vehicular networks. Because the distracted walking by the smartphone usage in a street or crossroad usually causes road accidents and casualties, it is necessary to design an energyefficient safety service for a smartphone to warn a pedestrian of possible danger. SANA provides smartphone users with suc...

The most common cause of cervical spine injury is motor vehicle accidents, followed by falls. The vast majority of injuries occur in patients 15-30 years old. Males are three to four times as likely to sustain a traumatic vertebral column injury as females. The cause of spinal injury varies with age; notably the very young are the most commonly victim of pedestrian motor vehicle accidents and t...

Lower limbs are normally the first contacted body region during car-pedestrian accidents, and easily suffer serious injuries. The previous tibia bending tolerances for pedestrian safety were mainly developed from three-point bending tests on tibia mid-shaft. The tibia tolerances of other locations are still not investigated enough. In addition, tibia loading condition under the car-pedestrian i...

The modelling and simulation of the interaction among vehicles and pedestrians during crosswalking is an open challenge for both research and practical computational solutions supporting urban/traffic decision makers and managers. The social cost of pedestrians’ risky behaviour pushes the development of a new generation of computational models integrating analytical knowledge, data and experien...