background: nowadays, application of nuclear technology in different industries has largely expanded worldwide. proportionately,the risk of nuclear incidents and the resulting injuries have, therefore, increased in recent years. preparedness is an important part of the crisis management cycle; therefore efficient preplanning seems crucial to any crisis  management plan. equipped with facilities...

Road traffic injuries are a major cause of preventable death in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurate epidemiologic data are scarce and under-reporting from primary data sources is common. Our objectives were to estimate the incidence of road traffic deaths in Malawi using capture-recapture statistical analysis and determine what future efforts will best improve upon this estimate. Our capture-recapture...

Safety compromising accidents and incidents occur regularly in the road transport domain. Formal accident analysis is an accepted means of understanding such events and improving safety in most complex safety critical domains. Despite this, there remains no universally accepted, theoretically underpinned framework for collecting and analysing accident-related data in the road transport domain. ...

Transport systems are affected by various kinds of incidents such as accidents, severe weather conditions, and other events which can lead to disturbances and operational irregularities. To avoid unnecessary disadvantages for road users and railway passengers as well as transport operators, such incidents require situation-dependent, dynamic interventions which need to be chosen and organized w...

Traffic calming is a useful way of controlling speeds where it is unnecessarily excessive and inappropriate for the place and uses in the surroundings, (Taylor et al, 2000). There are high incidents of road carnage in Masvingo urban and its peripheral areas despite the constructed traffic calming measures.The rationality of traffic calming measures was based on the need to improve safety and en...

Dynamic segmentation is viewed as one of the most important functions of GIS for transportation applications. Although the road network and associated events (e.g. pavement material, traffic volume and incidents) can be referenced to both space and time, the spatial and temporal dimensions has not been well integrated. This paper explores how to model space-varying, time-varying and space-time-...

Problem: The number of killed and injured persons in incidents at railway level crossings is generally increasing on the Serbian Railways, particularly at passive crossings. In this paper we researched the direct behaviour of road traffic participants at a conventional railway passive crossing. Method: Direct observational study of drivers’ behaviour at a level crossing. Results: Sixty-one road...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are increasingly important since they aim to bring solutions to crucial problems related to transportation networks such as congestion and various road incidents. Management of ITS, as other complex and distributed applications, has to cope with unforeseeable events and incomplete data while guaranteeing a quality of service (QoS) defined by multiple cri...