INTRODUCTION There has been global concern regarding road traffic injuries. Motorcyclists constitute a high proportion of fatalities in road traffic crashes. Commercial motorcyclists (Okadas) constitute a unique group in this regard. The purpose of this study was to evaluate driver-related risk factors in Okada accidents in Benin City, Nigeria. METHODS This was a prospective study. Interviewe...

To report on the establishment of a Research and Development program for Performance Enhancement using valid applications of High Quality Simulation and Advanced Learning Technologies for the Commercial Driving community. This project is one element of a larger research and education initiative sponsored by both the US Federal and State Departments of Transportation. It is focused on enhancing ...

Safety is a principal focus of government agencies and private-sector organizations concerned with transportation. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) was established within the Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000, pursuant to the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999. Formerly a part of the Federal Highway Administration, the FMCSA's primary mission is to...

Figure A1 illustrates how bypass systems operate. Drivers and/or companies who subscribe to a commercial bypass service install wireless transponders (serving as the sensors for the network) onto the windshield of their trucks. Transponders are provided free of charge by the bypass system company. As the truck approaches a weigh station equipped with the corresponding bypass system, information...

Hot ring rolling is a highly nonlinear, unsteady-state and asymmetry process which is affected by many parameters. The friction coefficient between the ring ,the driver roll and the idle roll is one of the problems, which has significant effect on the quality of final product. In this study, the effect of these two parameters on hot ring rolling was investigated based on a 3D coupled-thermo mec...

background and objectives: in many studies, chronic diseases are associated with incidence of driving accident. the main objective of the present study is investigation the effect of physical and mental disorders status of bus drivers on the occurrence of crashes. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study that was performed on 665 bus drivers' pu...

background and objectives: in many studies, chronic diseases are associated with incidence of driving accident. the main objective of the present study is investigation the effect of physical and mental disorders status of bus drivers on the occurrence of crashes. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study that was performed on 665 bus drivers' pu...

The VPR toolset has been widely used in FPGA architecture and CAD research, but has not evolved over the past decade along with commercial FPGAs, to include many new architectural features. This paper describes and uses a new version of the toolset that includes four significant new features: first, it supports a broad range of single-driver routing architectures, which have significantly diffe...