This project is the first stage of a larger program of research into hazard perception training for motorcyclists. Future stages of the project will investigate what type of environment can be used to teach hazard perception and responding, for example a simulator environment or combination of off-road and simulator training. This document summarises two reports that were prepared as part of th...

Motorcycles are the most dangerous form of motorized transportation. Per vehicle miles traveled, motorcyclists are about 3 times as likely as passenger car occupants to be injured in a crash, and 16 times as likely to die. Because the majority of these deaths are caused by head injury, safety advocates have recommended mandatory use of motorcycle helmets. Others contend that state laws mandatin...

Voluntary and relatively involuntary subsystems of attention often compete. On one hand, people can intentionally ‘‘tune’’ attention for features that then receive visual priority; on the other hand, more reflexive attentional shifts can ‘‘short-circuit’’ top-down control in the face of urgent, behaviourally relevant stimuli. Thus, it is questionable whether voluntary attentional tuning (i.e., ...

Numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of alcohol and traffic policies in reducing automobile crashes and fatalities, but only a few have analyzed the impact of state-specific policies on motorcycle safety. Given the growing popularity and inherent safety risks of motorcycle riding, this study provides a comprehensive investigation of both fatal and non-fatal injuries. State-level lon...

Motorcycle crashes constitute a significant proportion of traffic accidents all over the world. The aim of this paper was to examine the motorcycle crash patterns and rider fault status across the provinces of Iran. For this purpose, 6638 motorcycle crashes occurred in Iran through 2009-2012 were used as the analysis data and a two-step clustering approach was adopted as the analysis framework....

Between March 2004 and June 2007 The Rural and Remote Road Safety Study recorded 164 non-fatal motorcycle crashes in which a rider was seriously injured (hospitalised for 24 hours or more) on North Queensland public roads or lands. 88 of these riders consented to an interview with research staff during which a questionnaire was administered to gather information on crash experience, demographic...

A speech and noise corpus dealing with the extreme conditions of the motorcycle environment is developed within the MoveOn project. Speech utterances in British English are recorded and processed approaching the issue of command and control and template driven dialog systems on the motorcycle. The major part of the corpus comprises noisy speech and environmental noise recorded on a motorcycle, ...

3. Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. E-mail: [email protected] Figure 1: a. Coronal proton density image showing hypertrophied right posterior communicating artery (white arrowhead) and References nonvisualized ICA on the right side (white arrow). b. MRA showing ICA only on the left side (white arrow) with AVM ...

Navigation devices for cars are ubiquitous and become increasingly popular for motorcyclists as well. The motorcycle navigation devices were optimized for motorcyclists regarding their range of functions, but the interaction with these navigation devices are not optimized for motorcyclists. In this thesis, we explore vibrotactile feedback for motorcycle navigation. We evaluated the vibration th...