Previous research in crash injury severity analysis has largely focused on level of injury severity sustained by the driver of the vehicle or the most severely injured occupant of the vehicle. While such studies are undoubtedly useful, they do not provide a comprehensive picture of the injury profile of all vehicular occupants in crash-involved vehicles. This limits the ability to devise safety...

If a substantial proportion of these deaths are deliberate (1) their seasonal variation and their age distribution would be similar to those of suicides; (2) they would occur independently of road conditionis, while other single-car fatalities would be more likely to occur when road conditions are adverse. Information about single-car accidents for the two years 1969 and 1970 was obtained from ...

Abstract In recent years, a growing body of literature has revealed that occupants and their interactions with the building systems controls (window opening, thermostats, solar shading, etc.) have become key factor influencing building’s energy performance Indoor Environment Quality. Occupant behaviour can lead to major disparities between predicted-simulated actual use in buildings, described ...

The objective was to develop an Advanced Automatic Crash Notification (AACN) algorithm and evaluate its performance in making optimal occupant triage decisions. The developed AACN algorithm known as the Occupant Transportation Decision Algorithm (OTDA) uses measurements obtainable from vehicle telemetry to predict risk of overall occupant injury and recommend a transportation decision for the o...

Significant progress has been made in reducing the number of motor vehicle crash (MVC) injuries among young children in the United States. From 1996 to 2012, there was a 55% decline in MVC fatalities and a 53% decline in MVC injuries among children ages 14 and younger. 1-3 Despite this success, maintaining appropriate restraint use as children age continues to be a challenge. In 2013, 2% of chi...

Occupant feedback enables building managers to improve occupants’ health, comfort, and satisfaction. However, acquiring continuous occupant integrating this with other information is challenging. This paper presents a scalable method acquire directly integrate information. Semantic web technologies were applied solve data interoperability issues. The Feedback Ontology was developed describe sem...

This paper analyzes the effects of daylight and daylight saving time (DST) on pedestrian and motor vehicle occupant fatalities in the United States. Multivariate analyses of county level data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for 2-week periods in 1998 and 1999 are used. Results show that full year daylight saving time would reduce pedestrian fatalities by 171 per year, or by 13% of a...

While most building simulation tools model occupancy using simple 24-hour profiles, researchers are applying machine learning and other advanced modeling approaches to simulate individual occupants and their interactions with buildings. For building designers to fully benefit from these increasingly advanced occupant models, visualizations must ultimately reveal subtle yet informative patterns ...

Many victims in traffic accidents do not receive optimal care due to the fact that the severity of their injuries is not realized early on. Triage protocols are based on physiological and anatomical criteria and subsequently on mechanisms of injury in order to reduce undertriage. In this study the value of accident characteristics for field triage is evaluated by developing an on scene injury s...