The global growth in urbanisation increases the demand for services including road transport infrastructure, presenting challenges in terms of mobility. In this scenario, optimising the exploitation of urban road networks is a pivotal challenge. Existing urban traffic control approaches, based on complex mathematical models, can effectively deal with planned-ahead events, but are not able to co...

Road traffic accidents in Thailand, as is the case in some other developing countries, are on an alarming rising trend and pose a major loss for society. Statistics indicate that: a) the fatality rate from road traffic accidents increased more than fourfold during the past three decades; b) the number of fatalities caused by traffic accidents were 15,176 (1994 figure), and the number of injurie...

This paper describes the development of two systems which manage the data related to traffic accidents. One system conducts analyses using information on accidents, roads, and weather; for example, calculation of the rate of the accidents depending on road conditions or weather. The second system analyzes accidents using the information on safe facilities, for example, extraction of the sites w...

Non-motorized transportation modes, especially cycling and walking, offer numerous benefits, including improvements in the livability of cities, healthy physical activity, efficient urban transportation systems, less traffic congestion, less noise pollution, clean air, less impact on climate change and decreases in the incidence of diseases related to vehicular emissions. Considering the substa...

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...

BACKGROUND Urban traffic accidents are an extensively significant problem in small and busy towns in Iran. This study tried to explore the epidemiological pattern of urban traffic accidents in Kashan and Aran-Bidgol cities, Iran. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess various epidemiological factors affecting victims of trauma admitted to a main trauma center in Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS Du...

I n 1988, a total of 721 road users were killed in New Zealand, and 17,317injured. The cost to the country of all road accidents, based on figures supplied by the Ministry of Transport, is estimated to be a staggering $600 million (U.S. dollars) a year.’ When compared with two developing countries, one of which had high vehicle ownership comparable to New Zealand, New Zealand had a higher fatal...

epilepsy is one of the most prevalent serious neurologic conditions, affect 1 % of the population worldwide. people with epilepsy may feel it's safe to drive when their seizures seem to be under control, but patients with epilepsy were seven times more likely to have a driving accident leading to emergency room care than those without epilepsy. people with seizures had 2.3 times the rate o...

A retrospective cross-sectional study of injury patients who attended the Accident and Emergency Unit was conducted at the University of Malaya Medical Centre. Demographic data with regards to age, sex, race, occupation and the relevant data such as type of accident, type of injury sustained and also severity seen during the month of January 2005 were selected retrospectively from medical recor...

Bringing more, possibly longer, articulated vehicles to urban areas for goods delivery provides significant benefits, in terms of lower fuel consumption and more efficient operation. However it may also increase the risk of accidents with vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists. Simulations of HGV cornering manoeuvres were carried out to examine the vehicle’s cut-in and cl...