background: traffic accidents are the main cause of death and disability in the world and iran. the injuries caused by traffic accidents may result in severe limitations and worst outcomes in various aspects of lives of traffic accident injured people and their families. therefore, understanding their experiences is very important to design better programs with regard to their treatment and ret...

The significant role of pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) cannot be over emphasized as it encompasses minimizing the consequences of accidents and provides rapid response and relieve materials to victims of road traffic accidents at the scene of the crash. The paper therefore tries to analytically x-ray the relationship between income GDP per capital and the rate of road traffic dea...

This paper summarizes the results of an effort to identify and rank vehicle collision scenarios in order to create a "collision typology" that could aid in the assessment of the potential benefit of accident avoidance technologies. Data from four computerized accident files were used to construct an 18-level collision configuration variable. This variable includes the number of vehicles involve...

Traffic accidents at urban intersections result in a huge cost to society in tenns of death, injury, lost productivity, and property damage. Unfortunately, the elements that effect the frequency of intersection accidents are not well understood and, as a result, it is difficult to predict the effectiveness of specific intersection improvements that are aimed at reducing accident frequency. Usin...

This paper demonstrates how a new modeling methodology can be applied to intersection angle-accident risk evaluation with data collected from 81 signalized intersections in the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Angle collisions between through traffic flow and opposite right-turn (please note that vehicles travel along the left side of the road in Japan) traffic flow are the second most common type at s...

Many victims in traffic accidents do not receive optimal care due to the fact that the severity of their injuries is not realized early on. Triage protocols are based on physiological and anatomical criteria and subsequently on mechanisms of injury in order to reduce undertriage. In this study the value of accident characteristics for field triage is evaluated by developing an on scene injury s...

The following paper aims to illustrate certain investigative activities in the forensic analysis and examination of the scene of traffic accidents. When a traffic accident occurs, the scene must be secured as soon as possible to enable professional and proper forensic investigation. Failure to secure the accident scene might result in losing or contaminating the traces, which makes it more diff...

This study presents the integrated road traffic accident system (IRTAS) in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. This study utilizes the available traffic accident data from emergency service providers to obtain the efficiency of their cooperations. The current emergency response system (ERS) in Malaysia is provided by the following entities: (1) police; (2) hospital; (3) fire and rescue; and (4) civil defens...

This paper presents an agent-based traffic simulation framework that supports intelligent virtual driver behaviour. The framework exploits concepts used in Artificial Life (ALife), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agent technology to model the inherent unpredictability and autonomous behaviour of drivers within traffic simulation models. Each driver agent in our system contains knowledge and a ...

The prevalence of medicines in the driving population and their role in traffic accidents is mostly unknown in the European countries. Larger roadside studies focusing on medicines with detrimental effects on road traffic safety should be organised, so results could be compared to the corresponding compounds detected in samples from accident drivers. In order to perform such studies, equipment ...