Comprehension of Road Traffic Signs by Various Road Users in Kano City

[Knee injuries of vulnerable road users in road traffic].

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of knee injuries among vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. METHODS Two different periods (years 1985-1993 and 1995-2003) were compared. Inclusion criteria were furthermore Abbreviated Injury Scale knee 2-3 (AIS(knee)). Technical analysis assessed the type of collision, direction and speed as well...

Detection and Extraction of Road Traffic Signs

The real-time road traffic sign recognition focused on the application of computer vision techniques in automatic detection and classification of video images of traffic signs placed on roadways acquired from moving vehicles. In this work, we present results of an attempt to locating traffic signs placed on local roadways based on image processing techniques. The developed algorithm is based on...

Road traffic injuries in Rawalpindi city, Pakistan.

Data on road traffic accident (RTA) injuries and their outcome are scarce in Pakistan. This study assessed patterns of RTA injuries reported in Rawalpindi city using standard surveillance methods. All RTA injury patients presenting to emergency departments of 3 tertiary care facilities from July 2007 to June 2008 were included. RTA injuries (n = 19 828) accounted for 31.7% of all injuries. Amon...

Automatic Recognition of Road Signs by Hough Transform: Road-GIS

The problem of road sign detection and recognition is very important in many practical problems, above all for road cadastral authorities. In this sense, an automatic application able to identify the kind of a road sign starting from common imageries such as photos could be very helpful. The main difficulty is due to a possible poor graphical definition of the imagery. In this case, a valid sup...

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