Speed-pedelecs -fast electric bicycles offering pedal support up to a speed of 45 km/h- are recent, environmentally friendly, and mobility efficient innovation. However, their high travel may increase crash injury risk. Due recent introduction accurate data not available yet. Since near-crashes serve as proxy for crashes this study analyzed traffic conflicts (i.e., minor crashes) in the Netherl...

Although numerous research studies have investigated the effects of fatigue in commercial motor vehicle drivers, research with winter maintenance (WM) drivers is sparse. This study pilot-tested the feasibility of evaluating WM operator fatigue during winter emergencies using naturalistic driving data. Four WM operators participated in the study and drove two instrumented snow plows for three co...

Several studies have shown that taste-responsive cells in the brainstem taste nuclei of rodents respond to sensory qualities other than gustation. Such data suggest that cells in the classical gustatory brainstem may be better tuned to respond to stimuli that engage multiple sensory modalities than to stimuli that are purely gustatory. Here, we test this idea by recording the electrophysiologic...