Traffic accidents at intersections in urban area are the most common and take a majority of the accident toll. Analysing and generating counter measures has been the major task for traffic safety officials and engineers. Without knowing the safety implications of the counter measures, the task normally concentrates on tackling accidents reflected in historic accident data. As more demand for tr...

In China, traffic accident data is published annually by the Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security [1]. Accidents without casualties are usually not included. To gain a complete understanding and reliable insight of Shanghai traffic accidents, the project team collected the original accidents records on 192 Shanghai roads between 1-1-2009 and 12-31-2009. The o...

The prediction of traffic accidents is one of most important issues in our life. In the prediction of traffic accidents, a GIS platform to extract the important features including day, temperature, humidity, weather conditions, and month of occurred traffic accidents has been used. In this study, a decision making system (DMS) based on correlation-based feature selection and classifier algorith...

background and aims: this study aimed to investigate the deaths and injuries following pedestrian traffic accidents and factors associated with death of pedestrian in tehran and alborz provinces. methods: in this cross-sectional study all traffic accidents related to pedestrians in tehran and alborz provinces reported from march 21, 2013 to march 21, 2014 by the traffic police were studied. the...

background and aim: traffic accident is one of the main causes of mortality in iran. the damage and injury caused by these accidents threatens human societies severely. rural accidents are often more severe and show harsher consequences because the operational speed is higher on rural roads and highways. world statistics presented by world health organization (who) reveal that about 25 percent ...

Background and Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) staff are frequently faced with road traffic injury victims and also play role as various road users. This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices of ED staff towards road safety at referral trauma hospitals of Tabriz. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2020 in the referral traum...