This work aims to identify the effectiveness of one-level signalized intersections with exclusive pedestrian phases in terms vehicle-pedestrian crashes resulting injury or fatality. The analyzes and evaluates specific without diagonal crossing possibility at city Vilnius. Anonymized data on traffic accidents from Lithuanian Police Department Accident Register were used for safety analysis purpo...

BACKGROUND In the metropolitan area of Florence, 62% of major traumas involve powered two wheeler rider and pillion passengers, 10% cyclists, and 7% pedestrians. The urban and extra-urban areas are the most dangerous for the vulnerable road user. In-depth investigations are needed for assessing detailed information on road accidents. This type of study has been very limited in time frame in Ita...

This thesis is about saving lives in traffic. Much has been done to improve internal safety for the passengers in the car—airbags, deformation zones, etc. However, for pedestrians, little work has actually been implemented when it comes to safety. Why should they be less cared for than the passengers? In this thesis we have developed a pedestrian detection and avoidance system for deployment in...

BACKGROUND We have recently witnessed an epidemic of intentional vehicular assaults (IVA) aimed at pedestrians. We hypothesized that IVA are associated with a specific injury pattern and severity. METHODS Retrospective analysis of prospectively acquired data of patients injured following IVA from October 2008 to May 2016 who were admitted to the Hadassah Level I trauma center in Jerusalem, Is...

Motorcycle crashes constitute a significant proportion of traffic accidents all over the world. The aim of this paper was to examine the motorcycle crash patterns and rider fault status across the provinces of Iran. For this purpose, 6638 motorcycle crashes occurred in Iran through 2009-2012 were used as the analysis data and a two-step clustering approach was adopted as the analysis framework....

Abstract Background This study aimed to verify the relationships between sleep problems and both commuting workplace accidents in workers of sexes. Methods The was carried out with a sample ( n = 2993; 50.2% female) from Chilean Quality Life Survey (ENCAVI) 2015–2016, while rates were extracted statistics Superintendence Social Security (SUSESO 2015; 180,036 52,629 lost-time accidents, respecti...

ITE JOURNAL / AUGUST 1999 PEDESTRIAN ZONES HAVE become a familiar feature in the central areas of European cities. Private cars are always excluded from these zones, while delivery vehicles are permitted during off-peak hours. Bicycles and taxis are typically relegated to a circumferential service road. Some have argued that such rigid traffic separation contributes to economic and environmenta...

This research paper lays stress on philosophies of human desire. All the human being has some psychical need in addition to physical needs. And to satisfy the psychical needs, there is a need for stimulants, more in case of exclusive pedestrian precincts. Having exclusively Pedestrian precincts/Cores in city design draws its inspiration from the fact that public zones, accessible to majority of...

ABSTRACT A vibrant and commercially active center is often the result of interesting, diverse building styles and or built-forms, pedestrian density along with variety of quality public places where people feel comfortable, spending time and shopping items for domestic and commercial functions in cities like Addis Ababa. The scale and design of buildings, pedestrian density, and other phy...

A large number of traffic accidents, especially those involving vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists, are due to blind spots for the driver, for example when a vehicle takes a turn with poor visibility or when a pedestrian crosses from behind a parked vehicle. In these accidents, the consequences for the vulnerable road users are dramatic. Autonomous cars have the potential to...