due to demographic changes in germany older people are more frequently injured in road traffic accidents. in 2015, 73.338 older people were involved in traffic accidents with fatalities and/or injuries. the numbers of older people who have been injured in traffic accidents have increased dramatically since the late 90’s (+40%). but in general, elderly are less likely to be involved in road acci...

Although road agencies need to provide road infrastructure that is beneficial for road users, little is known about how the activities of the agencies influence the value creation of road infrastructure. From a service-dominant logic perspective, the importance of road maintenance and traffic management activities for the contribution of road infrastructure to the value-creation process of road...

This paper examines a new evaluation of urban road traffic safety based on a matter element analysis, avoiding the difficulties found in other traffic safety evaluations. The issue of urban road traffic safety has been investigated through the matter element analysis theory. The chief aim of the present work is to investigate the features of urban road traffic safety. Emphasis was placed on the...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of road traffic injuries and deaths for all road users and among different road user groups in Africa. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health, Google Scholar, websites of African road safety agencies and organizations for registry- and population-based studies and reports on road traffic injury and death estimates in Africa, published between 1980 ...

Road traffic information has been a primary source for traffic management, user services and other systems that enable road congestion prevention and control; however, road traffic information has not been adequately exploited as a part of the design for wireless communication network. In vehicular ad-hoc networks, the protocol design must consider the dynamic nature of the topology and the pro...

An important factor in evaluating health risk of near-road air pollution is to accurately estimate the traffic-related vehicle emission of air pollutants. Inclusion of traffic parameters such as road length/area, distance to roads, and traffic volume/intensity into models such as land use regression (LUR) models has improved exposure estimation. To better understand the relationship between veh...

This study investigates the causes, effects and remedies of traffic congestion which has become a common sight in most highways in Nigeria; Mowe/Ibafo section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was used as the case-study. 300 Structured questionnaires were distributed among the road users comprising drivers (Private and Commercial), passengers, pedestrians, traffic officers, church congregations, c...

As South Africa’s road system comprises a total road network of rural and urban roads of approximately 534 000 kilometres, it is of utmost importance to have an effective road network level management system in place, which utilises reliable traffic loading data for long-term planning. Road authorities are therefore largely dependent on the availability and accuracy of traffic loading informati...

In this paper, we take the urban road network as the object, a further study on the method of traffic signal self organization under the condition of traffic state identification and local congestion. In the urban road traffic state identification study, according to the need of traffic signal control, respectively from qualitative and quantitative point of view, the urban road traffic state is...

Road traffic injuries affect the economy, health and quality of life of the people of Mozambique. Current road safety programmes are inadequate and inefficient given the magnitude of the problem. Data reported on road traffic crashes in the period 1990 to 2000 from the National Institute for Road Safety, the traffic police and the Central Hospital of Maputo were reviewed. The burden of road tra...