This study investigates the relationship between occupant injury and a host of other factors, including traffic and weather conditions present at the time of crash, road design, vehicle type, and occupant characteristics. Crash and traffic-detector data from six Orange County freeways were used in an ordered probit model. Crash outcomes were classified for each occupant, as no injury, non-visib...

road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...

BACKGROUND Deaths and injuries on the road remain a major cause of premature death among young people across the world. Routinely collected data usually focuses on the mechanism of road traffic collisions and basic demographic data of those involved. This study aimed to supplement these routine sources with a thematic analysis of narrative text contained in coroners' records, to explore the wid...

In this paper a self-organized radio network for inter-vehicle communication (IVC) using broadcast messages is presented. The purpose of this network is to increase road traffic safety and to provide the driver with locally generated real-time traffic information. Therefore, each individual car transmits and receives broadcast packets that include floating car data (FCD) like position, velocity...

Road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. Pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. Although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...

The investigation of weather effects on traffic intensity is important from a road safety point of view, because traffic intensity is noted as the first and primary determinant of traffic safety. Next to traffic safety, weather conditions affect other predominant traffic variables, namely traffic demand and traffic flow. Therefore the main objective of this study is the identification and compa...

conclusions willingness to pay can be affected by experiencing an accident, the distance of the daily trip, and helmet use. the cost of traffic injuries among motorcyclists shows that this rate is much higher than the global average. thus, expenditure should be made on effective initiatives such as the safety of motorcyclists. results the mean wtp was 888,110 irr (iranian rial) among motorcycli...

background: road traffic accident is a worldwide public health issue that has its highest impact on low and middle income countries including malaysia. many previous studies concerned on the causality of the actual accidents and little attention were given to near miss incidents. hence, the current study was designed to determine the prevalence and associated factors for near miss incident amon...

The paper is presenting a new method for the management of the traffic flow on highways, based on the constant time to collision criterion. The criterion is applied at two levels, for each car implied in traffic, and for the whole highway. Each car is provided with a constant time to collision cruise controller, that is maintaining optimal distance-gaps between cars, in accordance to the techni...