Motorcycle accidents are becoming a public health problem in developing world. The objective of this paper was to assess the factors related to morbidity and mortality among victims of motorcycle accidents in a trauma center. An analysis of 9,734 medical records of patients hospitalized for external causes at the Regional Emergency and Trauma Hospital of Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil, from Ja...

The association of helmet use with death in a motorcycle crash can be estimated using matched-pair cohort methods. By estimating effects among naturally matched pairs on the same motorcycle, one can account for potential confounding by motorcycle characteristics, crash characteristics, and other factors that may influence the outcome. The authors used Fatality Analysis Reporting System data, fr...

The global development of fuel cell based propulsion has emphasized larger vehicles, with most manufacturers demonstrating a car, van or truck. However, the transportation market in many countries is dominated by smaller two and three wheeled vehicles. A fuel cell motorcycle could replace two stroke scooters that proliferate emissions, as well as, their electric counterparts that require long r...

Massive use of motorcycle is a signature of Eastern-Asia developing countries. This is may be termed a motorcycle dominant environment. Although the use of motorcycles is likely to provide many benefits to the riders, it also produces many serious transport issues for the community. To find out the solution, an understanding of traveller behaviour is necessary. Travel demand modelling then beco...

This paper presents a Modelica library developed for the dynamic simulation of a motorcycle, developed within the Dymola environment (see [1], [2], [3]) and tailored to test and validation of active control systems for motorcycle dynamics. As a matter of fact, as a complete analytical model for two-wheeled vehicles is not directly available due to the complexity of their dynamic behavior, a rel...