Crash risk is the statistical probability of a crash. Its assessment can be performed through ex post statistical analysis or in real-time with on-vehicle systems. These systems can be cooperative. Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems (CVIS) are a developing research avenue in the automotive industry worldwide. This paper provides a survey of existing CVIS systems and methods to assess cr...

An approach to costing of road crash injury has been developed using data from a 'Willingness-to-pay' survey mapped to injuries listed in the Abbreviated Injury Scale 1998 Revision. The costs derived have been applied to a database of real-world crash injuries that have been collected as part of the UK Cooperative Crash Injury Study (CCIS). The approach has been developed in order to determine ...

Government and other agencies routinely collect complementary information on road crash casualties and there may be opportunities to widen the scope of data available for research and policy evaluation if mechanisms can be established to combine these data sources. Where unit record data are available, direct links within and between individual records can often be achieved using record linkage...

The incidence of road crashes in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries is rising at an alarming rate and is now the leading cause of death among young adults, as confirmed by recent public health reports1. When comparing socio-economic indicators such as road crash fatality rates, healthy years of life lost due to crashes, and percentage of GDP lost, MENA countries now rank among s...

INTRODUCTION The young adult age group is at the highest risk of road trauma [1]. Further, the motor vehicle crash (MVC) risk for young adult drivers typically increases with the presence of a passenger [2]. While traditionally road safety strategies have focused on changing the driver there may be considerable opportunity to improve safety by developing passenger safety interventions. In parti...

Text messaging on smartphones uses a full soft keyboard instead of the numeric buttons on traditional mobile phones. While being more intuitive, the lack of tactile feedback from physical buttons increases the need for user focus, which may compromise safety in certain settings. This paper reports from an empirical study of the effect of text messaging on road safety. We compared the use of a t...

Introduction: In this study we explore the added value of bicycle crash descriptions from open text fields in hospital records Aarhus municipality Denmark. We also how data complements registered by police same area and time period. Method: The includes 5,313 Danish crashes, which 4,205 were at 1,078 police. All crashes occurred 2010 to 2015. performed an in-depth analysis on identify factors a...

A common contention is that the construction of highway bypasses negatively impacts the economy of local communities by reducing pass-by traffic for businesses. However, as access to specific business account records is limited, this is difficult to quantify. Another common contention is that a reduction in crashes will be achieved. The actual impact of highway bypasses in the United States has...