Seminar: Transport Safety
نویسنده
چکیده
Driver hypovigilance (‘falling asleep at the wheel’) is a major cause of road accidents, accounting for up to 20% of serious accidents on motorways and monotonous roads in Great Britain, whereas 56,000 crashes are stated by the US police annually, having as primary cause the driver hypovigilance, according to NHTSA studies. The European Commission Road Safety strategy identifies driver hypovigilance as an important factor in road fatalities and supports the application of driver monitoring systems to achieve its goal to reduce road fatalities by 50% by the year 2010.
منابع مشابه
Rural and remote road crashes: piecing together the story
Deaths from rural road crashes continue at a higher rate per head of population than that for major cities1,2, with the risk of dying on rural roads exceeding that on motorways by four to six times.2 In particular the male death rate from motor vehicle crashes in rural and remote areas of Australia is significantly higher than the male death rate in major cities.2 In 1992, rural and remote road...
متن کاملDagstuhl Seminar 15162 Software and Systems Traceability for Safety - Critical Projects
This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15162 on “Software and Systems Traceability for Safety-Critical Projects”. The event brought together researchers and industrial practitioners working in the field of safety critical software to explore the needs, challenges, and solutions for Software and Systems Traceability in this domain. The goal was to explore the gap ...
متن کاملPublic transport risk assessment through fault tree analysis
This study focused on the public transport risk assessment in District one of Tehran through Fault Tree Analysis involving the three criteria of human, vehicle and road in Haddon matrix. In fact, it examined the factors contributing to the occurrence of road accidents at several urban black spots within District 1. Relying on road safety checklists and survey of experts, this study made an ef...
متن کاملAnalysis of and proposals concerning policy and research issues at the “ CODATU Social Aspects of Transport Seminar ” held in July 2001
During the CODATU IX Conference held in Mexico City in 2000, it was decided that a CODATU work programme should be established, based on the deliberations of seven technical committees chaired by representatives from different countries. Progress emanating from these Technical Committees has been varied, but some successes have also been achieved. Technical Committee Six (Social Aspects of Urba...
متن کاملThe Relationship of Accident Risk Factors with Traffic Road Safety: A Study on Commercial Mini-Bus Accident in Nigeria
The main purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between Human Factors, Mechanical/Vehicle Factors, Environmental/Road Factors and Road Safety. Ten traffic agent officers (Comprising Road Safety Corps, Road Safety Marshal, State Security Service Officers, Police Traffic officers and National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) officers) were selected as a sample, survey questi...
متن کامل