OBJECTIVE Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) aim to bring a highly specialised crew to the scene of major incidents for triage, treatment and transport. We aim to describe experiences made by HEMS in Norway in the management of major incidents. DESIGN Doctors, rescue paramedics and pilots working in Norwegian HEMS and Search and Rescue Helicopters (SAR) January 1st 2015 were invited...

Assessing and prioritizing the duration time and effects of traffic incidents on major roads present significant challenges for road network managers. This study examines the effect of numerous factors associated with various types of incidents on their duration and proposes an incident duration prediction model. Several parametric accelerated failure time hazard-based models were examined, inc...

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...

Traffic congestion can be broadly classified as recurrent and non-recurrent based on its relation with daily variation of traffic demand. The former is mainly the result of traffic incidents such as accidents, vehicle breakdowns or any other incident that impedes the normal flow of traffic. Furthermore, traffic incidents could increase the severity of recurrent congestion in terms of the impact...

BACKGROUND Recent occurrences of disaster events highlight the need for increased attention to improving students' knowledge of disaster readiness. Nursing education continues to struggle with the delivery of consistent, effective, and impactful teaching methods for disaster response. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of using a simulated mass casualty incident (MCI) and Web-based r...

Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has sponsored a research program on alternative detection technologies for railroad right-of-way (ROW) and highway-rail grade crossing applications. In support of this effort, the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) of the U.S. DOT Research and Innovative T...

The use of active safety devices that can detect cyclists is considered an effective countermeasure for the reduction of the severity of injuries and number of deaths of cyclists. The detailed features of car–cyclist contact scenarios need to be clarified to develop such safety devices. Because there is limited information on real-world accidents, the present study investigates near-miss scenar...

Mobile water supply vehicles, known as tankers or tenders, are widely used to transport water to areas beyond a water supply system or where the water supply is inadequate. Incidents in­ volving motor vehicles account for approximately 20% of U.S. fire fighter deaths each year; cases involving tankers are the most prevalent of these motor vehicle incidents. During 1977–1999, 73 deaths occurred ...

Within complex, sociotechnical systems, human error has consistently been implicated as the major causal factor in a high proportion of accidents and incidents. For example, recent research within the road transport domain indicates that driver error contributes to as much as 75% of all roadway crashes. This report represents the second phase of a research program of which the aim is to promote...