Asians, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders were victims of approximately 105,000 nonfatal violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, aggravated assault, and simple assault) on average per year between 2002 and 2006. An average of about 471,000 property crimes (household burglary, motor vehicle theft, and theft) were committed against Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander hous...

Advances in ITS in-vehicle technologies promise to impose new information-processing demands upon drivers. Potential information “overload” problems may become especially acute among older drivers -the fastest growing segment of the driving population. In this investigation, the efficacy of a subsidiary task technique for detecting and quantifying age-differences in the attentional demands of d...

The purpose of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is that driver error will be reduced or even eliminated, and efficiency in traffic and transport is enhanced. The benefits of ADAS implementations are potentially considerable because of a significant decrease in human suffering, economical cost and pollution. However, there are also potential problems to be expected, since the task of dr...

In the traffic noise investigation framework, the need for a suitable predictive model is quite important, since it allows to evaluate the environmental impact, in case of existing infrastructures, or to design the road network such that noise is minimized, if the infrastructures are going to be built. The traffic noise produced by motor vehicles, as main sources in urban areas, is part of gene...

The recent decades have witnessed a fast rising number of motor vehicles. As a result traffic becomes more congested and streets become more risky. Temptations of widely varied communication and entertainment applications even make drivers more over-burdened and distracted. To relieve the continually increasing stress of drivers and reduce the number of accidents, current intelligent vehicle re...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether state booster seat laws were associated with decreased fatality rates in children 4 to 7 years of age in the United States. METHODS Retrospective, longitudinal analysis of all motor vehicle occupant crashes involving children 4 to 7 years of age identified in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System from January 1999 through December 2009. The main outcome measure...

Researchers in recent years have suggested that control of the aggregate level of alcohol consumption is an important component of a comprehensive programme for the prevention of alcohol-related problems. The present study focused on ihe relationship between alcohol consumption and perhaps the most significant acute alcohol-related problem, motor vehicle crashes. Data analyzed included monthly ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether men aged 45 to 70 years with any medical condition are at an increased risk of involvement as drivers in police-reported motor vehicle crashes. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Province-wide population-based sampling. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2504 drivers randomly selected from those involved as a driver in a motor vehicle crash (cases) and 2520 men not inv...

BACKGROUND Recent efforts to pass rear seat belt laws for adults have been hampered by large gaps in the scientific literature. This study examines driver, vehicle, crash, and passenger characteristics associated with mortality in rear-seated adult passengers. METHODS The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 2010 to 2011 was used to examine motor vehicle occupant mortality in rear-seated...

Deaths from rural road crashes continue at a higher rate per head of population than that for major cities1,2, with the risk of dying on rural roads exceeding that on motorways by four to six times.2 In particular the male death rate from motor vehicle crashes in rural and remote areas of Australia is significantly higher than the male death rate in major cities.2 In 1992, rural and remote road...