Injury characteristics of child passengers in accidents are summarized in this paper. Based on the accident data about child passengers from 2011 to 2017 collected in the National Automobile Accident In-Depth Investigation System (NAIS), the analysis of the patterns of the traffic accident where child passengers are involved and injury characteristics of child passengers in the aspects of crash...

Advanced evacuation analysis of passenger ships is a stochastic method in which the total evacuation time is calculated via computer-based simulations, by considering each passenger’s characteristics The cell-based simulation model divides the space in a uniform grid called cell. Each passenger is located in a cell and moves to another cell according to a set of local rules that are assumed to ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate of, and risk factors for, subsequent impaired driving activity (IDA) in a cohort of injured passengers who were treated for injuries in a Canadian trauma center. METHODS We studied adult passengers who were occupants in vehicles involved in motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) and either included in the British Columbia (BC) trauma registr...

Social networks provide a new perspective for enterprises to better understand their customers and have attracted substantial attention in industry. However, inferring high quality customer social networks is a great challenge while there are no explicit customer relations in many traditional OLTP environments. In this paper, we study this issue in the field of passenger transport and introduce...

The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI), which is an indicator of people’s subjective outlook for the economy, claimed to have affective dimensions, but research exploring its emotional aspects scant. We explore association and causality between CCI variables denoting three emotion-related psychological states: depression, anxiety, positive affect. Study 1 used data a three-arm internet-based rando...