Belize maintains the largest proportion of Endangered Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus population in its range, but tourism and boat traffic have increased substantially over past 3 decades. We utilized 25 yr stranding data (1995-2019), 6 aerial surveys (1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2014), 2 decades registration to examine: (1) spatial patterns incidence risk watercraft collision; (2) temp...

OBJECTIVE To assess the epidemiological data on motor vehicle collisions, injuries and deaths in Kyrgyzstan to inform evidence-based policy development. METHODS Data on motor vehicle collision and injury statistics covering 2003-2007 were obtained from official sources provided by the Department of Traffic Safety and the Ministry of Health's Republican Medical Information Centre. The data wer...

Tania P. Pynn is Public Health Nurse, Thunder Bay District Health Unit, Thunder Bay, Ontario. Bruce R. Pynn is Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center, Thunder Bay, Ontario. Reprints not available from the authors. J Emerg Nurs 2004;30:542-7. Available online 03 October 2004. 0099-1767/$30.00 Copyright n 2004 by the Emergency Nurses Association. doi: 10.1016/...

In the roadside safety community, there has been debate over the influence of vehicle and barrier type on rollover rates in traffic barrier crashes. This study investigated rollover rates between sport utility vehicles (SUVs), pickup trucks, and cars in vehicle-traffic barrier crashes and has examined the effect of barrier type on rollover risk for concrete barrier and metal barrier impacts. Th...

The paper outlines the nature and severity of the injuries suffered by pedestrians in motor vehicle accidents in England. Pedestrian admissions to hospitals in England as recorded in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) over a nine year period were compared with accidents recorded in Great Britain’s national road casualties database (STATS19). Alongside this, the most frequently injured region...

The focus of this survey is on spatio-temporal data mining and database retrieval for visual traffic surveillance systems. In many traffic surveillance applications, such as incident detection, abnormal events detection, vehicle speed estimation, and traffic volume estimation, the data used for reasoning is really in the form of spatio-temporal data (e.g. vehicle trajectories). How to effective...

Emergency vehicles, while usually equipped with warning sirens and/or beacons, are still often impeded by other traffic and involved in numerous collisions. An effective warning system for alerting other vehicles that an emergency vehicle is approaching is therefore crucial. Current research is investigating the use of wireless communication from emergency vehicles to warn other traffic. Howeve...

This study characterizes traffic accidents involving motorcycles according to local conditions, data concerning the type of accident, date and time, and identifies among these variables those associated with the death of victims. This retrospective study uses data from traffic collision reports from 2004 and death records from the institute of forensic medicine. A total of 99.4% of the events o...

Extension of multimedia services and applications offered by ATM networks to wireless and mobile users has captured a lot of recent research attention. Research prototyping of wireless ATM networks is currently underway at many leading research and academic institutions. Various architectures have been proposed depending on the intended application domain. Successful implementation of wireless ...