This review examines the risk that passenger airbags pose for children and discusses behavioral and technologic measures aimed at protecting children from airbag deployment. Although airbags reduce fatal crash injuries among adult drivers and passengers, this safety technology increases mortality risk among children younger than age 12. The magnitude of the risk is multiplied when children are ...

Commercially available connected vehicle (CV) probe data has been demonstrated to provide scalable and near-real-time methodologies evaluate the performance of road networks for various applications. However, one major concerns agencies is sampling, particularly during low-volume overnight hours. This paper reports on an evaluation that looked at both passenger cars trucks. study analyzed 40 co...

The passenger car air conditioning system is designed to supply and process fresh air, prevent it from the spread of infections pathogenic bacteria through disinfection as well provide com-fortable conditions for train passengers personnel. prime requirement systems in railway transport stability parameters set maintain microclimate train, regardless meteorological conditions. One tasks facing ...

Research was undertaken to determine vehicle size parameters influencing driver fatality odds, independent of mass, in two-vehicle collisions. Forty vehicle parameters were evaluated for 1,500 vehicle groupings. Logistic regression analyses show driver factors (belt use, age, drinking) collectively contribute more to fatality odds than vehicle factors, and that mass is the most important vehicu...