Road safety in cities is becoming a bigger concern worldwide. As more people own cars and traffic congestion increases on old roads, the risk of accidents also grows, which severely affects victims and their families. In 2023, data from the Soci&eacu...
About 36% of fatal road accidents in Norway involve at least one driver who is “at work”. It has been argued that the implementation of rules clearly defining the responsibility of road transport companies to prevent work related accidents, by implem...
Despite various interventions in road safety work, fatal and severe road traffic accidents (
With the increase in the demand for and transportation of hazardous materials (Hazmat), frequent Hazmat road transport accidents, high death tolls and property damage have caused widespread societal concern. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out ri...
Road safety is a major global concern, as millions of lives are lost every year because of road accidents. Towards an effort to increase road safety, several Internet-of-Vehicle systems have been developed over the last years in order to better monit...
Introduction: Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) are the leading cause of premature death in young people aged 5–29. Globally, 186,300 children aged 9 years and under die from RTAs each year. Romania had the highest mortality rate in children aged 0...
Background/Objectives: Cervical spine injuries (CSIs) are life-threatening conditions commonly resulting from road traffic accidents and falls; improper first aid management can significantly worsen neurological outcomes. Public awareness and correct...
Background/Objectives: Türkiye’s registered motorcycle fleet more than doubled after the COVID-19 pandemic amid rapid growth of the platform delivery economy. In a national ecological analysis of routinely collected official statistics (20...
Between 2010 and 2020 in the European Union, 30% of road accidents resulted in the death of a pedestrian or a cyclist. Accidents of unprotected pedestrians and cyclists are the reason why it is essential to introduce road safety measures. In our pape...
17 August 2020
Road transportation poses one of the significant public health risks. Several contributors and factors strongly link public health and road safety. The design and advancement of higher-quality roads can significantly contribute to safer roads and sav...
This study aimed to investigate how human, vehicle, and environment (HVE)-related factors and their interactions contribute to fall accidents related to electric scooters (e-scooters). Falls are the most common type of e-scooter accidents, and develo...
This article describes the issue of the influences of the time factor and wildlife populations on road animal–vehicle crashes. The article presents problems associated with animal–vehicle crashes in Poland. They are the subject of many co...
Agriculture is one of Australia’s largest rural industries. Oversized and slow moving industry equipment and vehicles, hereafter referred to as large agricultural vehicles (LAVs), use public roads. Restrictions exist regarding their on-road ope...
11 October 2023
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the leading cause of fatal work-related injuries in the United States. Research assessing sociodemographic risk disparities for work-related MVCs is limited, yet structural and systemic inequities at work and during c...
Uneven roads pose significant challenges to vehicle stability, passenger comfort, and safety, especially in snowy and mountainous regions. These problems are often complex and challenging to resolve with traditional detection and stabilization method...
30 November 2022
Unintentional injury is a significant cause of disease burden and death. There are known inequalities in the experience of unintentional injuries; however, to date only a limited body of re-search has explored the relationship between exposure to adv...
Numerous statistics show that cyclists are often involved in road traffic accidents, often with serious outcomes. One potential hazard of cycling, especially in cities, is “dooring”—passing parked vehicles that still have occupants...
As the number of traffic accident casualties continues to rise globally, this study aims to enhance traffic safety during highway emergency repairs. Based on the fundamentals of human vision, this study designed a novel interactive barricade design,...
22 February 2023
Despite preventive measures and initiatives, road traffic accidents are on the rise in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to investigate the emergency medical service unit’s response to RTA by socio-demographic and accident-related v...
It is necessary to extensively investigate the causes of road accidents with the utmost precision to harness future technological advancements, such as autonomous driving and intelligent accident prevention systems. Nevertheless, since most accidents...
Traffic accidents are caused by man mainly, especially improper driving. The effective way to reduce safety accidents caused by improper driving is to find out the cause and path causing the accident, block the accident formation chain, and then redu...
The rising frequency of heavy truck accidents in China poses a significant public safety risk, endangering lives and property. However, current research based on data from heavy truck accidents in China remains limited, making it challenging to suppo...
To improve the accuracy of the risk evaluation results of hazardous chemical road transportation systems, an accident risk evaluation model based on the combined weight-cloud model is proposed to address the problems of ambiguity and randomness in th...
Despite the measures put in place in different countries, road traffic fatalities are still considered one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Thus, the reduction of traffic fatalities or accidents is one of the contributing factors to attainin...
The population of children in Japan has steadily declined, and the percentage of the population aged 14 years or younger is smaller than in other countries. Therefore, it is important to protect children by preventing their involvement in traffic acc...
Traffic accidents, by their nature, are random events; therefore, it is difficult to estimate the exact places and times of their occurrences and the true nature of their impacts. Although they are hard to precisely predict, preventative actions can...
To address the need for an in-depth exploration of traffic accidents involving intelligent vehicles and to elucidate the influence mechanism of road environment interference factors on both assisted driving systems and human drivers during such accid...
Due to strong mobility, low costs, and easy parking, the scooter has become an important mode of transportation in Taiwan. The number of traffic accidents is also increasing because of drivers’ bad driving habits. For road traffic injury preven...
Understanding the causes and effects of road accidents is critical for developing road and action plans in a country. The causation hypothesis elucidates how accidents occur and may be applied to accident analysis to more precisely anticipate, preven...
Traffic accidents have become an important problem for governments, researchers and vehicle manufacturers over the last few decades. However, accidents are unfortunate and frequently occur on the road and cause death, damage to infrastructure, and he...
With the increase in the production and use of hazardous chemicals in China, road transportation safety issues are becoming increasingly prominent. To study the causes of road transportation accidents involving hazardous chemicals, prevent accident o...
Commuting road accidents have a direct impact on workers as well as companies. Therefore, analyzing the characteristics of commuting to and from work and workers’ perceptions of their potential risk is necessary. This study analyzes these facto...
6 September 2018
Road transport safety is a major concern across Europe due to the human and socio-economic costs associated with work-related traffic accidents. Traditional approaches have adopted regulatory and technical measures to prevent road accidents leaving a...
A total of 523 accident cases during 2018–2021 in China were studied in terms of accident year, region, road section, and time to reduce the probability of expressways mobile hazardous source transportation accidents. The characteristics and ca...
Road traffic accidents are a significant public health issue, accounting for almost 1.3 million deaths worldwide annually, with millions more experiencing non-fatal injuries. A variety of subjective and objective factors contribute to the occurrence...
14 September 2018
Roads play an important role in the economic development of cities and regions, but the transport of cargo along highways may represent a serious environmental problem because a large portion of transported goods is composed of dangerous products. In...
For sustainable transportation systems, modeling road traffic accidents is essential in order to formulate measures to reduce their harmful impacts on society. This study investigated the outcomes of using different datasets in traffic accident model...
This study explores risk factors influencing the at-fault party in traffic accidents and analyzes their impact on traffic accident severity. Based on the traffic accident data of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China, from 2018 to 2020, 19 attribut...
Safe vehicles are an important pillar in reducing the number of accidents or mitigating the consequences of a collision. Although the number of autonomous safety systems in vehicles is increasing, retrofitted systems could also help reduce road accid...
In Italy, the law on road homicide (Law no. 41/2016) introduced specific provisions for drivers who cause severe injuries or death to a person due to the violation of the Highway Code. The use of alcohol or drugs while driving constitutes an aggravat...
2 December 2020
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than half of all road fatalities involve vulnerable road users, i.e., pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. Poland is classified as one of the European Union (EU) countries marked by low road...
A special element of road safety research is accidents at the interface of the road and rail system. Due to their low share in the total number of incidents, they are not a popular subject of analyses but rather an element of collective studies, wher...
7 April 2021
Major accidents occurred frequently in the road transportation industry, and the resulting harm to drivers, property loss, and traffic interruption are very serious. This study investigated 11 particularly major accidents involving commercial vehicle...
Traffic accidents are a major concern worldwide, since they have a significant impact on people’s safety, health, and well-being, and thus, they constitute an important field of research on the use of state-of-the-art techniques and algorithms...
Urban road traffic safety has always been vital in transportation research. This paper analyzed the factors influencing the degree of traffic accident casualties on Jinan Jingshi Road and its branch roads, taking them as the study area for urban road...
(1) Background: The number of casualties due to car accidents in Europe is decreasing. However, there are still very large differences in the levels of road safety between countries, even within the European Union. Therefore, it is vital to conduct r...
Exploring spatiotemporal patterns of traffic accidents from historic crash databases is one essential prerequisite for road safety management and traffic risk prevention. Presently, with the emergence of GIS and data mining technologies, numerous geo...
Accident prevention is of great significance in avoiding or reducing all kinds of casualties and economic losses, and is one of the main challenges for social sustainable development. Hence, it has been an active research field for many decades aroun...
This research produced a model that detects abnormal phenomena on the road, based on deep learning, and proposes a service that can prevent accidents because of other cars and traffic congestion. After extracting accident images based on traffic acci...
Traffic accidents have become severe risks as they are one of the causes of enormous deaths worldwide. Reducing the number of incidents is critical to saving lives and achieving sustainable cities and communities. Machine learning and data analysis t...
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