The number of road vehicles significantly increased in recent decades. This trend accompanied a build-up of road infrastructure and development of various control systems to increase road traffic safety, road capacity and travel comfort. In traffic safety significant development has been made and today’s systems more and more include cameras and computer vision methods. Cameras are used as part...

Given the increasing vehicle numbers and expanding road construction in developing countries, the importance of safe road user behaviour is critical. Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are a significant problem in Pakistan; however, the factors that contribute to RTCs in Pakistan are not well researched. Fatalistic beliefs are a potential barrier to the enhancement of road safety, especially participa...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of community/environmental interventions undertaken as part of the Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP). SETTING Three communities (local government areas) in the Perth metropolitan area, Western Australia. METHODS A quasiexperimental community intervention trial was undertaken over three years (1995-97). Three communities were assigned t...

The facts around current and projected levels of road trauma eed little introduction: in 2012 road injury was the ninth leadng cause of worldwide deaths (WHO, 2014) and it is estimated hat by 2030 it will be the fifth (WHO, 2009). Its presence in the orld Health Organisation’s top ten causes of death gives a clear ndication of the scale of the problem: currently road injury stands lone within t...

a Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Tami Toroyan (e-mail: [email protected]). Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem, resulting in over 1.2 million deaths each year.1 They affect all age groups but their impact is most striking among the young: they are the lea...

Statistical data of P.R. China indicate that traffic accidents on curved roads take a large proportion of the total road accidents. To improve safety and driving comfort on curved roads, a mathematic speed model is developed to determine an optimised safety speed on curved roads. The model takes quantitative static road environment parameters (such as curvature, road gradient, superelevation, r...

This paper inTroduces a framework inTegraTing available elemenTs of a safeTy conscious design process in one concise, pracTice-orienTed algoriThm. implemenTaTion of The proposed framework should enhance The consisTency and depTh of safeTy consideraTions in TransporTaTion corridor planning and design projecTs. inTroducTion It is relatively common for safety issues to remain undetected at the tra...

The New South Wales (NSW) Government has identified road safety as one of its key State Plan priorities. The Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales (RTA) has been nominated as the lead agency for this priority. This presented the RTA with an important opportunity to reduce the State’s road toll even further. A new focus was introduced for the RTA to take up the challenges and priorities...

This paper presents a deterministic approach for performance assessment of different province’s road safety level at Iran. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) model considering undesirable input and output indices and a multivariate statistical method, principle component analysis (PCA) are used in this paper, while previous studies do not use composite PCA-DEA method and undesirable input and ou...

Research has shown that road lane width impacts on driver behaviour. This literature review provides guidelines to assist in the design, construction and retrofitting of urban roads to accommodate road users' safety requirements. It focuses on the impacts of lane widths on cyclists and motor vehicle safety behaviour. The literature review commenced with a search of library databases. Peer revie...