Inexperienced drivers are particularly vulnerable to road traffic accidents, and inattention emerges as a factor in these accidents. What do these drivers attend to and how can their observation skills be developed? When drivers scan the road around them, differences are observed as function of driving experience and training, with experienced drivers increasing their visual scanning on roadway...

Background In Brazil, vulnerable road users (VRUs) including motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists, comprised more than half of all fatal road traffic injuries (RTIs) in 2010. Alcohol is a major risk factor for RTI, which is being targeted by the Global Road Safety Initiative (RS10) in five capitals. Few published studies on alcohol-associated RTI exist at the national level. Aims To analy...

The protection of vulnerable road users (VRU) is a key issue of future driver assistance systems. An important point is to determine whether a VRU is visually hidden to the driver. This additional information is essential for the driver to prevent an accident or to reduce its severity. We show that by using a transponder attached at the VRU, wavelength dependent diffraction effects can be utili...

Avoiding collisions with vulnerable road users (VRUs) using sensor-based early recognition of critical situations is one of the manifold opportunities provided by the current development in the field of intelligent vehicles. As especially pedestrians and cyclists are very agile and have a variety of movement options, modeling their behavior in traffic scenes is a challenging task. In this artic...

Background and Objectives: The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) has the third highest road traffic fatality rate in the world. This article evaluates the epidemiology of road injuries and some of its main control factors in Iran and compares them with other countries of the EMR.   Methods: This study was conducted to analyze and compare traffic injuries resulting in mortality using secondar...

Crashes involving cyclists and pedestrians in Europe cause the deaths of about 7600 persons every year. Both are especially exposed crashes with motorized vehicles collisions trucks can lead to severe injury outcomes. The two most frequent crash scenarios between these vulnerable road users (VRU) are: a) when truck wants turn right at an intersection, a cyclist riding parallel planning cross in...