Road safety has become a worldwide public health concern. Although many factors contribute to collisions, pedestrian behaviors can strongly influence road outcomes. This paper presents results of survey investigating the effects age, gender, attitudes towards safety, fatalistic beliefs and risk perceptions on self-reported in Chinese example. The study was carried out 543 participants (229 men ...

Real-time traffic flow operation condition of freeway gradually becomes the critical information for the freeway users and managers. In fact, electronic toll collection (ETC) transaction data effectively records operational information of vehicles on freeway, which provides a new method to estimate the travel speed of freeway. First, the paper analyzed the structure of ETC transaction data and ...

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Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of organizational changes in the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) Investigations Branch and how the Branch has adapted to the paradigm of intelligence-led policing. The paper also reports on interviews conducted to assess the impact on key staff affected by the change, through the medium of a drug-gang investigation, Operation Nine Connect. Design/...

The paper refers to the importance of maintenance management to increase the vehicle fleet energy efficiency. The fleet maintenance management influences as the vehicle maintenance process itself as well as the primary transport process but also their environment. In order to increase fleet energy efficiency by means of a more efficient maintenance management, it is indispensable to observe mai...

Every 6 seconds someone is killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. With 1.3 million road deaths each year this is a global epidemic comparable to malaria or Tuberculosis. Nine in ten road deaths and injuries are in developing countries. By comparison to other global killers, road injury is neglected. Road crashes are the leading global cause of death for young people under 25 years, a...

COUNCIL Jody Hey, President Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Ken Wolfe, President-Elect Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Email: [email protected]. Michael Lynch, Past President Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 E. Third Street, Bloomington,...