Preventing Emergency Vehicle Crashes: Status and Challenges of Human Factors Issues
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human and vehicle factors in motor vehicle crashes and severity of related injuries in south east iran
background: motor vehicle crashes (mvc) are considered to be the most common safety challenge, causing more than a million deaths worldwide annually. objectives: the current study was aimed at identifying the etiological role of human and vehicle safety factors in road crashes, and their effects on the severity of injury and fatality in the sistan and baluchistan province, south east iran. pati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0018-7208,1547-8181
DOI: 10.1177/0018720818786132