To study the characteristics of fatal vehicle-pedestrian accidents in China，a team was established and passenger car-pedestrian crash cases occurring between 2006 and 2011 in Beijing and Chongqing, China were collected. A total of 121 fatal passenger car-adult pedestrian collisions were sampled and analyzed. The pedestrian injuries were scored according to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and Inj...

Adaptive Cruise Control Systems (ACC) are becoming essential in developing advanced vehicular applications/services which help to reduce the risk of accidents and offer better conditions for comfort in the driving experience, Hartenstein and Leberteaux (2008). The IDM (Intelligent Driver Model) is a realistic car-following model whose main feature is the use of physical-oriented parameters to e...

A large number of traffic accidents, especially those involving vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists, are due to blind spots for the driver, for example when a vehicle takes a turn with poor visibility or when a pedestrian crosses from behind a parked vehicle. In these accidents, the consequences for the vulnerable road users are dramatic. Autonomous cars have the potential to...

since the 1960 child safety systems in cars have been developed. the 3 point safety belt for adults rated as one of the 10 most important inventions for mankind, the seat belt has saved more than 1.5 million lives. as well children have to be secured in a car but the 3 point belt is designed for adults. a 27 kg child is forced forward with 1.200 kg at 48 kph impact velocity. here vulnerable bod...

The National Crash Severity Study data in which occupants sustained severe, critical-to-life, or fatal cervical injuries were reviewed. Of passenger cars damaged severely enough to be towed from the scene, it is estimated that one in 300 occupants sustained a neck injury of a severe nature. The neck-injury rate rose to one in 14 occupants for those ejected from their cars, although many of thes...

The investigation showed that the increasing number of deaths and fatalities resulting from driving accidents is mostly related to developing countries especially with intermediate and low social classes which it is resulting from industrialization of the mentioned societies without considering necessary infra structures such as health, safety and environment (HSE). Increasing number of cars, u...

conclusions injuries affect all age groups; however, the disproportionately at risk population is the productive youth. preventive strategies should focus on reducing trauma incidence among young men at population level. considering the higher number of incidents occurring in mid spring and late summer, authorities should devise preventive plans mainly through alteration of traffic rules in thi...

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are regarded as the adequate solution to cooperative driving between communicating cars on the road. There are strong economical interests in this field since vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication allows to improve traffic safety, to improve route planning, or to control traffic congestion. The 802.11p is a draft amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard for vehi...