BACKGROUND We examined whether sales of new motorcycles was a mechanism to explain the relationship between motorcycle fatalities and gasoline prices. METHODS The data came from the Motorcycle Industry Council, Energy Information Administration and Fatality Analysis Reporting System for 1984-2009. Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) regressions estimated the effect of inflation-a...

Commercial Motorcycle Taxi business, also known as 'Boda boda', is a dominant alternative mode of transport and means quick mobility in Kenya. The Boda bodas are associated with significant accident risks have led to public health epidemic. Risky riders' traffic behaviour, coupled the tendency riders operate like organized urban militia, often been disruption socio-economic activities, road acc...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to build and test the models of machine learning (ML) to predict the mortality of hospitalised motorcycle riders. SETTING The study was conducted in a level-1 trauma centre in southern Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS Motorcycle riders who were hospitalised between January 2009 and December 2015 were classified into a training set (n=6306) and test set (n=946). Using the dem...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe bicycle helmet use among Montreal cyclists as a step towards injury prevention programming. METHODS Using a cross-sectional study design, cyclists were observed during 60-minute periods at 22 locations on the island of Montreal. There were 1-3 observation periods per location. Observations took place between August 16 and October 31, 2011. S...

Current mobile phones are becoming important platforms that serve the ubiquitous sensing and communication needs of people [29, 55]. The sensing and communication modules on mobile phones are usually developed to provide location and context-aware services. Real-time urban traffic conditions are critical to wide populations and serve the needs of many transportation dependent applications. This...

Riding a bicycle is increasingly encouraged as sustainable transport solution, especially in urban areas. However, safety concerns, both perceived and actual, can significantly lower the willingness to ride among population. To support cycling planning policy double task of increasing levels while mitigating crash risk, there need better understand behaviours attitudes riders. In this manuscrip...

BACKGROUND A data acquisition from the medical sector may give one important view of the burden on the society caused by vehicle related injuries. The official police-reported statistics may only reflect a part of all vehicle-related injured seeking medical attention. The aim is to provide a comprehensive picture of the burden of vehicle related injuries on the medical sector (2013), and to com...

This study describes the injury frequency and injuries in detail for motorcycle drivers on German roads involved in traffic accidents and comparing the analysis with the whole group of all kinds of motorized two-wheelers. The study is based on documented accidents by GIDAS (German InDepth-Accident Study). The current situation on injury frequencies on different body areas and the severity of su...