BACKGROUND Traffic crashes and consequent injuries represent a growing public health concern in India, particularly in light of increasing motorization. Motorised two-wheeled vehicles (MTV) constitute a large portion of the vehicle fleet in India. We report the crash characteristics and injury patterns among a cohort of MTV riders and pillions presenting to hospital post-crash. METHODS Consec...

Ridership is a key goal in the transit industry. Conventional transit analysis focuses on two types of users—captive and choice riders—but rarely aims to understand the preferences of non-transit riders. This research aims to better understand habits and preferences—for both users and non-users of the transit system—as they relate to the transit market in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Our ...

In June 2003, the International Olympic Committee decided to introduce BMX in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing (China). We can assume, as in a 200 m sprint in track cycling, that the maximal power output (PO) of the lower limbs contribute to the BMX performance. However , few studies like Herman et al. (2009) and Mateo et al. 2011 have studied the PO characteristics of the elite riders on the ...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a comparative analysis of the lesions found among motorcycle riders involved in traffic accidents and victims of other mechanisms of blunt trauma. METHODS Analysis of data prospectively collected on protocols for trauma patients older than 13 years, admitted from 06/10/2008 to 09/01/2009, victims of blunt trauma. Data collected included trauma mechanism, vital signs at ad...

We propose a workload balancing based approach to discourage free riding in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. The heart of our mechanism is to migrate some shared files from the overloaded peers to the neighbored free riders automatically and transparently, which enforces free riders to offer services when altruistic peers are heavily overloaded. The implementation techniques are discussed in detail....

This paper describes a model that demonstrates that sharing knowledge can be adaptive purely for its own sake. This is despite the fact that sharing knowledge costs the speaker in terms of foraging opportunities, and that initially the majority of the population consists of free-riders who listen but do not speak. The population is able to take advantage of the increased carrying capacity of th...

Motorcycle riding is an accessible and cheap form of transport for many people worldwide, particularly in low and middle income countries where other forms of private transport are not affordable. Motorcycle riders, however, account for a relatively high proportion of road traffic-related fatalities and injuries in such countries. The lack of experience of many motorcycle riders has been cited ...

Vespa is a popular scooter vehicle in Indonesia. The rider tends to use their wrist flexion and extension positions while driving, especially when pulling vespa gas, controlling the brakes, changing gears. This repetitive movement could affect suppression of median nerve cause risk carpal tunnel syndrome. observational, analytic descriptive design was used see relationship between duration ride...