The purpose of this study is to compare the value of statistical life (VSL) estimates for traffic, drowning, and fire accidents. Using a choice experiment in a mail survey of 5,000 Swedish respondents we estimated the willingness to pay for risk reductions in the three accidents. In the experiment respondents were asked a series of questions, whether they would choose risk reducing investments ...

AbstrAct The design of serious games based on sound learning and instructional principles is important to ensure learning is integrated in the 'game-play'. However, the process of achieving this is not yet fully understood , and research is hampered by the lack of practical demonstrations of how effective instructional design is when used alongside game design. This chapter provides an example ...

The no-fault system offers an alternative method to tort litigation of obtaining compensation for injuries. By eliminating negligence as a criterion for payment, the no-fault system aims to pay compensation more quickly and return a higher percentage of the liability dollar to those who have suffered harm, either to person or to property. The no-fault concept has been widely applied, especially...

Laverty, Kelly, Rotton, and Flynn conducted a regression analysis in 1992 on 9 years of automobile accidents in Saskatchewan (a total of 200,545 accidents) to find a small linear trend, season effects, holiday, and day of the week effects. The application of a hidden Markov model to the residuals of this analysis uncovered two states which are likely to be related to the weather. These states c...

Multi-vehicle rear-end accidents constitute a substantial portion of the accidents occurring at signalized intersections. To examine the accident characteristics, this study utilized the 2001 Florida traffic accident data to investigate the accident propensity for different vehicle roles (striking or struck) that are involved in the accidents and identify the significant risk factors related to...

T urning left across opposing traffic at a signalized intersection could result in a traffic accident, as well as create motorist delay. A solution to the left-turn problem may be the addition of a left-turn phase when certain guidelines are met.’ After a decision has been made to add a left-turn phase, one of two basic alternative phasing methods is commonly used. In Kentucky, the predominant ...

It is well known that excessive rescue times after traffic accidents negatively affect the health of those injured. There is a need to quantitatively measure the impact of unexpected events like ambulance availability, weather, floating population and congestion in those rescue times. A family of indicators based on isochrones is disguised and proposed to understand the risk of the whole popula...

In environmental noise control one commonly employs the A-weighted sound level as an approximate measure of the effect of noise on people. A measure that is more closely related to direct human perception of noise is the loudness level. At constant A-weighted sound level, the loudness level of a noise signal varies considerably with the shape of the frequency spectrum of the noise signal. In pa...