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Abstract The accident data referring to deceased infants, who do not have a child restraint system that complies with safety devices, are alarming. Although the current systems present good level of protection, it is possible design improve performance ones, improvement in being main motivation for this study. This will be incorporated into sedan car, taking account characteristics positioning ...

The passenger vehicle occupant fatality rate at nighttime is about three times higher than the daytime rate. In 2005, among the fatally injured passenger vehicle occupants, the proportion of unrestrained occupants was much higher during nighttime than daytime. Also during nighttime, among passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes, alcohol involvement, speeding, and single-­vehicle crash fat...

Passenger flow safety detection in high-speed railway transport hub is considered in this paper. For accurately detecting the passenger flow safety, an improved watershed algorithm and a recognition algorithm are respectively proposed in sensor-based detection process. Computational experiments on sensor data from a specific Chinese high-speed railway transport hub show that the proposed algori...

We have constructed a framework for analyzing passenger behaviors in public transportation systems as understanding these variables is a key to improving the efficiency of public transportation. It uses a large-scale dataset of trip records created from smart card data to estimate passenger flows in a complex metro network. Its interactive flow visualization function enables various unusual phe...

Track Maintenance is crucial for the safe and efficient of railway transportation. After analysis of foreign management techniques for high-speed railway track maintenance, combined with the characteristic of passenger dedicated line in China, this paper has explored new ideas of the information system of passenger dedicated line track maintenance and at the same time researched on the theory a...

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...

We examine the reduction in London Underground passenger journeys in response to the July 2005 bombings. Using entrance data for London Underground stations between 2001 and 2007, we incorporate demand and supply factors in a multivariate time-series regression model to estimate changes in passenger journeys between different Underground lines. We find that passenger journeys fell by an average...

Quick response (QR) to passenger needs is a key objective for advanced public transportation systems (APTS), and it has become increasingly important for contemporary metropolitan bus operations to gain a competitive advantage over private transportation. This paper presents a real-time control methodology for demand-responsive bus operations that respond quickly to passenger needs. The propose...