Safety compromising accidents and incidents occur regularly in the road transport domain. Formal accident analysis is an accepted means of understanding such events and improving safety in most complex safety critical domains. Despite this, there remains no universally accepted, theoretically underpinned framework for collecting and analysing accident-related data in the road transport domain. ...

Sharon O’BRIEN Richard TAY Barry WATSON Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Associate Professor in Road Safety Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Queensland University of Technology Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Queensland University of Technology Carseldine, Queensland, Australia Queensland University of Technology Carseldine, Queensland, Australia Carseldine, Queen...

worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. road accidents cause ex...

In road safety studies, decision makers must often cope with limited data conditions. In such circumstances, the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), which relies on asymptotic theory, is unreliable and prone to bias. Moreover, it has been reported in the literature that (a) Bayesian estimates might be significantly biased when using non-informative prior distributions under limited data condit...

Given the current number of road accidents, the aim of many road safety analysts is to identify the main factors that contribute to crash severity. To pinpoint those factors, this paper shows an application that applies some of the methods most commonly used to build decision trees (DTs), which have not been applied to the road safety field before. An analysis of accidents on rural highways in ...

China has the world's largest population, is the second largest automobile market, and is the third largest world economy. China's economy is booming, resulting in a rapid increase in both the road infrastructure and the access to private vehicles. As a consequence, China faces unprecedented road safety issues. The present report was designed to analyze the Chinese road safety situation and to ...

OBJECTIVE The increase in the number of fatalities caused by road accidents involving heavy vehicles every year has raised the level of concern and awareness on road safety in developing countries like Malaysia. Changes in the vehicle dynamic characteristics such as gross vehicle weight, travel speed, and vehicle classification will affect a heavy vehicle's braking performance and its ability t...

The value of road safety is the fundamental input in social cost–benefit analysis of road safety schemes. It is also an increasingly important input in the social evaluation of almost any transport infrastructure project. This value is given by the amount that people are willing to pay for reducing the risk of a becoming a fatal victim or of suffering a serious injury. Traditionally, road safet...

Sharply increasing fuel prices and significantly heightened concerns about environmental impacts of vehicles have dramatically changed the profile of new vehicle sales in Australia over the past few years. Specifically, sales of light and small vehicles have grown rapidly whilst the medium and particularly the large vehicle segments have contracted sharply. In the face of this, sales of four wh...