In Belgium, traffic safety is currently one of the highest topics on the list of priorities of the government. The identification of black spots and black zones and profiling them in terms of accident related data and location characteristics must provide new insights into the complexity and causes of road accidents which, in turn, provide valuable input for government actions. Data mining is t...

background : a cross-sectional study of pattern of injuries in road traffic accidents was conducted over a period of one year involving 179 victims. material and methods: males (143) were more commonly involved than females (36) and majority of the victims (56) were in the age group of 21-30 years. results: rural victims(151) outnumbered the urban (28). one third of the victims were illiterates...

Background and aims: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of enforcement of new traffic laws on the fatal and non- fatal injury rates in Iran. Methods: In a longitudinal, interventional controlled trial study, all subjects with history of fatal and non-fatal injuries were studied. Their injuries were caused by six risky violations (unauthorized speed, illegal overtaking, red traffic light c...

OBJECTIVES Initiatives to increase active school transportation are popular. However, increased walking to school could increase collision risk. The built environment is related to both pedestrian collision risk and walking to school. We examined the influence of the built environment on walking to school and child pedestrian collisions in Toronto, Canada. METHODS Police-reported pedestrian c...

Future cooperative traffic safety applications based on vehicular networks rely heavily on the support for real-time intervehicle communication. The Medium Access Control (MAC) mechanism proposed for the upcoming IEEE 802.11p standard intended for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications does not offer deterministic real-time support, i.e., the channel access delay is not upper bounded....

Background and Objectives: The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) has the third highest road traffic fatality rate in the world. This article evaluates the epidemiology of road injuries and some of its main control factors in Iran and compares them with other countries of the EMR.   Methods: This study was conducted to analyze and compare traffic injuries resulting in mortality using secondar...

transportation sector is one of the major contributors to noise in the urban areas. the traffic noise environment in balasore, a city of orissa, india in terms of standard noise indices, community response and community health effects are worked out in the present study. noise pollution is assessed in six different squares (road sections) of the town. it is inferred that the noise levels are mo...

The main purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the prevailing types accidents at roundabouts. relationship revealed between certain accidents, place their occurrence, configuration roundabout. analyzed 321 19 ring intersections. Four predominant crash were identified: rear-end collision, collision with vulnerable road users, side swipe entering circulate collision. greatest number o...

This paper is concerned with the planning of optimal trajectories for vehicle collision avoidance with a Timed Elastic Band (TEB) framework. The avoidance trajectory is represented by a TEB which is optimized with respect to multiple partially conflicting objectives. The resulting trajectory constitutes the optimal compromise between a mere braking and a lane change maneuver that avoids the col...

Ensuring safe and efficient mobility is a critical issue for smart city operators. Increasing safety not only reduces the likelihood of road injuries and fatalities, but also reduces traffic congestion and disruptions caused by accidents, increasing efficiency. While new vehicles are increasingly equipped with semi-automation, the added costs will initially limit the penetration rate of these s...