Road network are the life line for the movement of people and freight and plays an important role in the development of a region but road accidents cause heavy burden on financial and social setup of an economy. According to a WHO report, road accidents will become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. Despite lot of effort from various agencies in curbing traffic accidents, they are on the...

Traffic calming is a useful way of controlling speeds where it is unnecessarily excessive and inappropriate for the place and uses in the surroundings, (Taylor et al, 2000). There are high incidents of road carnage in Masvingo urban and its peripheral areas despite the constructed traffic calming measures.The rationality of traffic calming measures was based on the need to improve safety and en...

We examine the relationship between cell phone use and traffi c accidents using a unique measure of cell phone coverage. The distance from an antenna tower accurately predicts whether or not an area has cellular coverage according to provider coverage maps in 2016. Cellular coverage between 2001 and 2011 is proxied for using the the distance between a road segment and the nearest antenna tower....

In recent years, numerous researches have been carried out with purpose of predicting motor vehicle crashes on transportation facilities as freeways and urban or rural highways. Accident process can be modeled successfully with assuming a dual-state data-generating process. Based on this assumption, road components like intersections or road segments have two states of perfectly safe and unsafe...

AIM To determine the characteristics of the Socio-medical profile of road traffic accidents in Kosovo, between 2010 and 2015 year. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. METHODS A descriptive method based on the database of road traffic accidents from the National Police of Kosovo. RESULTS In Kosovo for the period 2010-2015, on average, the yearly number of road traffic accidents is 18437 with...

Traffic accidents were ranked the third among the major causes of death in Thailand. About 13,438 deaths and the death rate from traffic accident was 21.5 per 100,000 of population in 2002. The deaths and death rate varied upon the economic situation. After the economic crisis, traffic accidents were increased as well as the period of the bubble economy. In the Central region of Thailand number...

As the number of people who reside and work in urban areas increases, so, too, do the needs and demands placed on the infrastructure. This has led to severe congestion in many European cities, a situation which affects not only the environment in terms of pollution, but most notably levels of traffic safety. In Europe, tens of thousands of people are killed in road traffic accidents, and more t...

islamic republic of iran, considering specified guidelines in the horizon of the perspective, as pays attention to annually reducing the maximum number of traffic deaths, tries to minimize the rate of traffic fatalities until 2025 horizon. in order to reduce traffic injuries, iranian traffic police ,through preparing resources, inter-organizational coordinations, using modern technologies, usin...

road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in the world. so, the aim of current study was investigated the epidemiologic survey of road traffic injuries in patients admitted in al-jalil hospital in aq-qala. this study was conducted on 5774 patients during 2007-2012, to evaluate the profile of 2784 injury patients due to road traffic accidents, admitted in al- jalil hosp...