M alaysia has one of the highest traffic accident rates in the world, which has caused concern among all quarters involved in the road transport sector. Figure 1 shows a comparison between Malaysia and some of the more advanced countries in terms of fatalities per lo,00ovehicles. Traffic accidents in Malaysia cost the country 600 million ringgit (about $200”million U.S. dollars) in 1986, and th...

For more than 20 years, in France as in many other countries, the number of pedestrians killed in road accidents has tended to decrease. The stakes remain high, however : 1,126 pedestrians killed in France in 1994, and this user category is particularly vulnerable in accidents. To further our knowledge of pedestrian accidents, an analysis of data supplied in reports drawn up by the police force...

Research question: What are the various epidemiological factors related to road traffic accident cases? Objectives: 1. To assess the prevalence of road traffic cases coming to hospital. 2. To know the various epidemiological factors related to road traffic accident cases. Study design: Descriptive study. Setting: Study was performed in Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and...

This paper aims at understanding why road accidents tend to cluster in specific road segments. More particularly, it aims at analyzing which are the characteristics of the accidents occurring in "black" zones compared to those scattered all over the road. A technique of frequent item sets (data mining) is applied for automatically identifying accident circumstances that frequently occur togethe...

Traffic Accidents are occurring due to development of automobile industry and the accidents are unavoidable even the traffic rules are very strictly maintained. Data mining algorithm is applied to model the traffic accident injury level by using traffic accident dataset. It helped by obtaining the characteristics of drivers behavior, road condition and weather condition, Accident severity that ...

THIS report presents a graphic expression of the accident-volume relation at divided highway intersections. The expression was produced by averaging the past accident experience at 150 intersections. A total of 1, 811 accidents was tabulated in developing the chart. Uses of the chart include: (1) estimating the probable number of accidents which wil l occur in a future period and (2) correcting...