The Robust Project aims to improve scientific and technical knowledge on the main issues still open in the new European standards on road restraint system EN 1317 [1-2]. The knowledge acquired will form the basis of updated standards for EN1317 and lead to more advanced road restraint systems and improve road-users safety. This report is part of the deliverables from Work Package 5 (WP5)-Comput...

In this paper we describe SmartRoad, a road sensing system that generates and collects mobile sensory data from vehicle-resident mobile phones, in enabling and supporting crowd-sourced road sensing applications and services, as an alternative to expensive road surveys conducted traditionally. We implement the SmartRoad prototype system, and deploy it on 35 volunteer users’ vehicles for 2 months...

Mix-zones are recognized as an alternative and complementary approach to spatial cloaking based location privacy protection. Unlike spatial cloaking techniques that perturb the location resolution through location k-anonymization, mixzones break the continuity of location exposure by ensuring that users’ movements cannot be traced while they are inside a mix-zone. In this paper we provide an ov...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the behavior temporal of road-traffic injuries (RTI) in Valledupar, Colombia from January 2008 to December 2012. METHODOLOGY An observational study was conducted based on records from the Colombian National Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences Institute regional office in Valledupar. Different variables were analyzed, such as the injured person's sex, age, education level...

INTRODUCTION The online drug marketplace called 'Silk Road' has operated anonymously on the 'Deep Web' since 2011. It is accessible through computer encrypting software (Tor) and is supported by online transactions using peer to peer anonymous and untraceable crypto-currency (Bit Coins). The study aimed to describe user motives and realities of accessing, navigating and purchasing on the 'Silk ...

Introduction: Globalization has resulted in motorization pacing up the number of road traffic accidents, thereby affecting the families, community and nations as a whole. In 2010, the WHO member countries declared 2011–2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety, to stabilize and reduce the increasing trend in road traffic fatalities. Objectives: To know the socio-demographic profile of RTA ca...

OBJECTIVE According to the World Health Organization, the global burden of road traffic mortality exceeds 1.27 million people annually; over 90 percent occur in low- and middle-income countries. Brazil's road traffic mortality rate of ∼20 per 100,000 is significantly higher than nearby Chile or Argentina. To date, there has been very little information published on road traffic fatalities among...

WATCH-OVER is a European project, aiming at the enhancement of road safety and the impairment of traffic accidents involving vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists, in urban and extra-urban areas. The project carries out research and development activities, in order to design an integrated cooperative system for accident prevention. In this paper, the co...

This article indicates the need for understanding road users’ expectations when developing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Nowadays, technology allows more and more opportunities to provide road users with all sorts of information or even actively support aspects of the driving task. However, we should first identify how the driving task is actually performed by drivers before determ...