a spinal cord injury (sci) refers to any injury to the spinal cord or nerves at the end of the spinal canal that is caused by trauma instead of disease often causes permanent changes in strength, sensation and other body functions below the site of the injury. road traffic collision (rtc) or car crash occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other...

Most states currently use ranking procedures to identify intersections with safety concerns. One objective of a state intersection ranking procedure is to provide a reliable start to the prioritization of safety improvements. For efficiency purposes, it is crucial to have a ranking system that identifies intersections with the most severe safety concerns. Otherwise, potentially hazardous inters...

Although speed is considered to be one of the main crash contributory factors, research findings are inconsistent. Independent of the robustness of their statistical approaches, crash frequency models typically employ crash data that are aggregated using spatial criteria (e.g., crash counts by link termed as a link-based approach). In this approach, the variability in crashes between links is e...

prevalence of chronic disease could be adversely having an effect on the capability of the driver. in addition, it must increase probability of accidents. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between chronic medical conditions and contribution in crashes among drivers. in this cross-sectional study, the populations were professional truck drivers. the numbers of 323 people were...

This paper makes use of a probabilistic model, that predicts the likelihood of crashes (crash potential) on freeways on the basis of traffic flow conditions, in real-time crash prevention. The model was developed using incident logs and loop detector data collected over a 13-month period on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. The previous work suggested that an increase in levels of traffic tur...

Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem storage systems. Although high-level ideas for crash consistency are relatively well understood, realizing them practice surprisingly complex and full challenges. The systems research community actively working on solving this challenge, papers examined here offer three solutions.

Crash severity is an important predictor of injury outcome for vehicle occupants involved in crashes. The best measures of crash severity are ∆v or equivalent barrier speed. Both these measures require detailed inspection and measurement of the vehicles involved in the crash. These methods are resource intensive and limit the ability to include crash severity as a variable in mass crash data ba...

reviews in many countries indicate that drivers often talk on mobile (cell) phones. studies have been done on possible effects of concurrent mobile phone use on driving performance. previous studies have found that phone talking could impairs performance on simulated or instrumented driving tasks, using such measures as reaction time, following distance, and situational awareness. most of these...