Many applications that aim at enhancing sustainability rely on some sort of spatio-temporal model. The task can be monitoring or prediction in traffic networks, power grids, building energy management, river flow volume, and sea level – to mention just a few. The positive effect on the environment is achieved by a better control, better planning of processes or better disaster management. Spati...

The UK External Vehicle Speed Control (EVSC) project has made a prediction of the accident savings with intelligent speed adaptation (ISA), and estimated the costs and benefits of national implementation. The best prediction of accident reduction was that the fitting on all vehicles of a simple mandatory system, with which it would be impossible for vehicles to exceed the speed limit, would sav...

When working with accident rates, a specialist has to spend quite lot of time establish the main places accidents, certain conditions in which they occurred, is extremely necessary when determining measures aimed at reducing road accidents. As result research, authors processed large amount data - rates for 2015-2021, as dependencies were established between considered indicators relative data,...

The present paper provides a unif3"ing survey of some of the most important methods and models of loss reserving which are based on run-off triangles. The starting point is the thesis that the use of runoff triangles in loss reserving can be justified only under the assumption that the development of the losses of ever3, accident year follows a development pattern which is common to all acciden...

background: municipal solid waste (msw) is the natural result of human activities. msw generation modeling is of prime im­portance in designing and programming municipal solid waste management system. this study tests the short-term pre­diction of waste generation by artificial neural network (ann) and principal component-regression analysis. methods: two forecasting techniques are presented in...

background: ischemic heart disease (ihd) is the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and a considerable part of these patients attend to emergency departments, which increases the burden to these busy departments. the aim of this study was to develop a prediction model enabling prediction of all cause emergency department (ed) visits in patients with documented coronary stenosis in ...

  Background: This study attempted to investigate traffic accident fatalities during 2004-2009 and the effect of fuel rationing on traffic accident fatalities .   Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study on available data of all traffic accident fatalities in Fars Province, Iran, during 2004-2009. To identify and fit the best model, various instruments, including the...

Governments try to discourage risky health behaviours, yet such behaviours are bewilderingly persistent. We suggest a new conceptual approach to this puzzle. We show that expected utility theory predicts that unhappy people will be attracted to risk-taking. Using US seatbelt data, we document evidence strongly consistent with that prediction. We exploit various methodological approaches, includ...