BACKGROUND Unprecedented growth of fatalities due to traffic accidents in the recent years has raised great concerns and efforts of authorities in order to identify and control the causes of these accidents. OBJECTIVES In the present study, the contribution of psychological, social, demographic, environmental and behavioral factors on traffic accidents was studied for young boys in Tehran, em...

Throughout the world, road traffic accidents (RTAs) and their consequences are studied to help develop new prevention and enforcement policies. Impaired driving among drunk or intoxicated drivers is a social and public health problem recognised worldwide and the presence of alcohol and drugs in drivers has been found to be frequent and the cause of fatal outcomes. According to US National Highw...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a driver drowsiness and monitoring system that could act as an assistant the during driving process. aimed at reducing fatal crashes caused by driver’s distraction. For drowsiness, operates analysing eye blinks yawn frequency while for distraction, works based on head pose estimation tracking. alarm will be triggered if any these conditions occur. Main pa...

In March 2018, the death of Elaine Herzberg, Tempe, AZ, USA, caused by an autonomous Uber vehicle (with a training driver behind wheel) made headlines [1] . responded suspending its self-driving program in Phoenix, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. The complexi...

sleep deprivation is a condition of not having enough sleep it can be either chronic or acute. a chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue. fatigue is a subjective state related to sleep deprivation, the more someone is deprived of sleep the more likely that person is to be fatigued. several studies indicated that drowsiness/fatigue can affect steering performance and speed control. rese...

background the most accidents can be directly attributed to human factors. hence, more traffic crashes result from driver malfunctioning which from among them, the driver behavior is a proximal factor in the road traffic injuries causation chain. objectives this study aims to investigate relationship between aberrant driving behaviors questionnaire (dbq factors) and self-report crashes involvem...

PURPOSE Rear-end crashes attribute to a large portion of total crashes in China, which lead to many casualties and property damage, especially when involving commercial vehicles. This paper aims to investigate the critical factors for occupant injury severity in the specific rear-end crash type involving trucks as the front vehicle (FV). METHODS This paper investigated crashes occurred from 2...

background: we determined the levels of subjective and observer drowsiness and facial dynamics changes. methods: this experimental study was done in the virtual reality laboratory of khaje-nasir toosi university of technology in 2015. facial dynamics changes like changes in eyes, mouth and eyebrows were surveyed on twenty-five drivers in 2015bykss (karolinska sleepiness scale) and ord (observer...

music has been used as mood modulator by humans for many years. nowadays music is mostly play as one of the switch in a car. although music listening is common at during driving. its impact on driving performance has developed debates and controversies. studies have shown that self-selected in-car music listening can improve driver’s mood and behavior. however other studies have reported that b...