OBJECTIVES The aim of the present case-referent study was to investigate the incidence of myocardial infarction among male professional drivers, taking the type of vehicles and area of residence into account. METHODS The study base comprised all men aged 30-74 in five counties in middle Sweden during 1976-81 or 1976-84. Incident cases of the first episode of myocardial infarction were identif...

Much recent public health research has emphasised the health impacts for young people of 'active travel' modes, typically defined as walking and cycling. Less research has focused on public transport modes. Drawing on qualitative data, we examine the links between bus travel and wellbeing in London, where young people currently have free bus travel. Our findings indicate that bus travel can be ...

This paper proposes a multicriteria model for assessing public bus operation systems based on the ELECTRE method in the city of Eskisehir, Turkey. In this specific problem, public and expert opinions towards the privatization of urban bus lines were collected through a comprehensive survey to determine the best operation system; either by the local authority or private operators. The data colle...

Policy towards local bus transport in Britain has been quite sharply cyclical. The late 1960s and 1970s saw the creation of a planned approach to the provision of local bus services, associated with the creation of the National Bus Company in public hands, the development of the Passenger Transport Executives in urban areas with important planning functions, and the growth of public subsidy fro...

While many current vehicle network systems for body bus applications use event triggered analysis processes, the deterministic point of view raises concerns about system timing due to message latency. This paper studies the latency performance characteristics of a typical body bus vehicle network using event triggered analysis over the CAN bus.

Recent research has shown that Network on-chip (NoC) is superior to a bus in terms of power and area for given traffic throughput requirements. Consequently, NoC is expected to be the main interconnect infrastructure in future System on Chip (SoC) and chip multi-processor (CMP). Unlike off-chip networks, VLSI modules are only a few millimeters apart, hence the cost of off-network communication ...

Bus transport is the main (often only) passenger connecting all cities of Uzbekistan and their rural settlements has an important social significance. In modern conditions, factor that motivates passengers to choose certain routes modes in public safe high speed. Operational conditions on city bus vary complexity, requiring a special approach planning traffic, measures ensure fast movement rout...