The New South Wales (NSW) Government has identified road safety as one of its key State Plan priorities. The Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales (RTA) has been nominated as the lead agency for this priority. This presented the RTA with an important opportunity to reduce the State’s road toll even further. A new focus was introduced for the RTA to take up the challenges and priorities...

Major gains in patient safety can be achieved through development of innovative approaches to the care of surgical patients. Investigators and clinicians have conceived an “operating room of the future” (ORF) that epitomizes those current and future enhancements that can contribute to patient safety in the operative environment. In this article, we explore these enhancements in the context of t...

Industrie 4.0 is originally a future vision described in the high-tech strategy of the German government that is conceived upon the information and communication technologies like Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Physical Internet and Internet of Services to achieve a high degree of flexibility in production, higher productivity rates through real-time monitoring and diagnosis, and a...

This paper presents a deterministic approach for performance assessment of different province’s road safety level at Iran. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) model considering undesirable input and output indices and a multivariate statistical method, principle component analysis (PCA) are used in this paper, while previous studies do not use composite PCA-DEA method and undesirable input and ou...

Research has shown that road lane width impacts on driver behaviour. This literature review provides guidelines to assist in the design, construction and retrofitting of urban roads to accommodate road users' safety requirements. It focuses on the impacts of lane widths on cyclists and motor vehicle safety behaviour. The literature review commenced with a search of library databases. Peer revie...

Road traffic injuries are an ongoing global health burden and cause more than 1.2 million deaths per year. In Europe, the annual socioeconomic impact accounts for €130 billion. In 2011, the United Nations set a special focus on road safety and injury prevention by the proclamation of the “Decade of Action for Road Safety.” This initiative focuses mainly on developing countries. In Germany, many ...

1 Abstract Road Safety in the Context of Urban Development in Sweden and California Road safety is a serious public health issue throughout the world, with more than one million people killed in traffic accidents each year. Despite the severity of its health impacts, the World Health Organization says that traffic safety is a "neglected" topic. Perhaps this is the case in the US, where traffic ...

Despite significant progress, road transport systems continue to kill people on a scale that is comparable to cancers, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory diseases. In Queensland (Qld), Australia, there is currently a targeted focus on reducing the ‘fatal five’ behaviours underpinning road trauma. Although progress is being made, researchers have argued that a new systems thinking approach ...

To enhance communication with other road safety enforcement stakeholders involved with the heavy road transport sector SAPOL initiated and chairs an Enforcement Liaison Group. Monthly meetings are scheduled to facilitate discussion about compliance and operational issues relevant to the sector. The group comprises representatives from DTEI Safety Compliance Officers, Transport Safety Inspectors...