objectives : to estimate the disabled-adjusted life years ( dalys) of road traffic accidents in patients referred to hospitals in yazd province, central iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in yazd province during 2010. to calculate the years of life lost (yll) due to premature death and to calculate the incidence of non-fatal injuries and years lost due to disability (yld), ...

For 25 years the number o f pedestrians killed on the roads has decreased in France : from 3202 in 1970 it dropped to 1027 in 1995. This decrease in the number o f pedestrian fatalities is observed in many other countries, and it does not simply reflect the general decrease in the number o f accidents and deaths on the road during that period. In France, pedestrian fatalities represented 21% of...

Objective: The rate of road traffic accidents in Iran per capita and for the number of vehicles is much higher than the average in the world. The present study was conducted to investigate road traffic accidents in Yazd province during 2011-2015.Methods: The present study is a descriptive-analytic study in which data were obtained from data collection forms related to deaths from driving ...

One of the most important needs of pedestrians is safety at crossing points, especially at intersections. Intersections are important parts of the urban road network because any disruption in them reduces the capacity of the entire network. The main objective of this research is to propose an appropriate method for prioritizing urban intersections with considering the important factors affectin...

Road traffic accidents including intercity car traffic accidents (ICTAs) are among the most important causes of morbidity and mortality due to the growing number of vehicles, risky behaviors, and changes in lifestyle of the general population. A sound knowledge of the geographical distribution of car traffic accidents can be considered as an approach towards the accident causation and it can be...

Pedestrian detection is an important aspect of autonomous vehicle driving as recognizing pedestrians helps in reducing accidents between the vehicles and the pedestrians. In literature, feature based approaches have been mostly used for pedestrian detection. Features from different body portions are extracted and analyzed for interpreting the presence or absence of a person in a particular regi...

We have introduced excluded volume effect, which is an important factor to model a realistic pedestrian queue, into queueing theory. The probability distributions of pedestrian number and pedestrian waiting time in a queue have been calculated exactly. Due to time needed to close up the queue, the mean number of pedestrians increases as pedestrian arrival probability (λ) and leaving probability...