Blind areas around construction equipment are a major contributing factor in incidents involving a piece of equipment striking a worker. In highway construction, these types of incidents result in an average of 22 deaths a year in the United States. The Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, in cooperation with the Washington State Department o...

This paper describes the RAID algorithm, (Remote Automatic Incident Detection) designed to detect abnormal periods of traffic congestion existing over single inductive loop detectors (typically 2m by 1.5m). RAID identifies those detectors which show a critical increase in Average Loop-Occupancy Time Per Vehicle (ALOTPV) coinciding with a critical decrease in Average Time-Gap Between Vehicles (A...

Freeway service patrol (FSPs) programs have been considered as an effective tool for traffic incident management in minimizing the adverse effects of incidents. In this study, random parameters hazard-based duration modeling method was used to evaluate impact newly implemented Alabama Service and Assistance Patrol (ASAP) program, using clearance time a performance measure. It determined that th...

background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents) occur within various work environments, with workgroups in certain industries vulnerable to multiple incidents. with the increasing prevalence of incidents in the usa, incident response is a growing practice area within occupational medicine, industrial psychology, occupational social work and other occupationa...

An Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is a system based on wireless communications which has been investigated for many years in order to provide new technologies able to improve safety and efficiency of road transportation with integrated vehicle and road systems. It combines all aspects of technology and systems design concepts in order to develop and improve transportation system of all...

The schedule of urban road network recovery caused by rainstorms, snow, and other bad weather conditions, traffic incidents, and other daily events is essential. However, limited studies have been conducted to investigate this problem. We fill this research gap by proposing an optimal schedule for urban road network repair with limited repair resources based on the greedy algorithm. Critical li...

The road crash is one of the significant problems that great concern in today's world. Road accidents are often caused by drivers' carelessness and negligence. drowsy condition drivers, which occurs due to overwork, fatigue, many other factors, those causes. It therefore most critical establish systems can detect driver's state provide drivers with appropriate warning system. In addition automa...

The traffic guidance system is an important subsystem in the intelligent transportation system which can timely release alerts regarding traffic congestion, incidents and other information to road-users. However, it is very hard to decide the releasing range exactly where and for whom to release such information. With the correlation analysis of road traffic flow in time and space domain, the r...

The number of incidents unaccounted for in-state statistics is determined at 92.5%, and the problems arising as a result such are listed. structure interface an application developed by employees Southwestern State University, which geographic information system accumulating processing data on road accidents, presented. A list that must be entered into presented, well ability to sort required p...

The World Health Organization estimates that the burden of surgical disease due to war, self-inflicted injuries, and road traffic incidents will rise dramatically by 2020. During the 2009 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Humanitarian Action Summit (HHI/HAS),members of the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group met to review the state of surgical epidemiology, the unmet global surgical need, ...