Although many have advocated a systems approach in road transportation, this view has not meaningfully penetrated road safety research, practice or policy. In this study, a systems theory-based approach, Rasmussens's (1997) risk management framework and associated Accimap technique, is applied to the analysis of road freight transportation crashes. Twenty-seven highway crash investigation repor...

advanced driver assistance systems (adas) have the potential to accomplish a major contribution to road safety. this is valid for minor crashes to very severe accidents with personal injuries. the allianz centre for technology attends the development of new driver assistance systems by carrying out accident analysis and estimating the efficiency of new adas. in this context new adas from differ...

background and objectives: in many studies, chronic diseases are associated with incidence of driving accident. the main objective of the present study is investigation the effect of physical and mental disorders status of bus drivers on the occurrence of crashes. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study that was performed on 665 bus drivers' pu...

background and objectives: in many studies, chronic diseases are associated with incidence of driving accident. the main objective of the present study is investigation the effect of physical and mental disorders status of bus drivers on the occurrence of crashes. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study that was performed on 665 bus drivers' pu...

Road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. Pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. Although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...

Drugs have long been a focus of law enforcement in Australia but recent legislation in a number of Australian states now requires routine drug testing of drivers (testing for cannabis and methamphetamine), with the stated aim of reducing road crashes. Such legislation is justified if these drugs are known to increase the risk of crashing. Literature concerning cannabis and road crash involvemen...

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 27, No. 1, 20–39 (2008) © 2008 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam.20305 1 COM (97) 131. Promotion of road safety in the European Union 1997–2001. 2 The direct economic cost of world road crashes has be...

Environmental Practice 13:16–27 (2011) D avis, California, often referred to as the bicycle capital of America since becoming the first city to gain “platinum” status from the League of American Bicyclists, should also be renowned for another reason: road safety. From 1997 through 2007, the years examined for this study, Davis experienced only 14 fatal road crashes within city limits, and 10 of...

BACKGROUND There are no reported studies on the relationship between traffic crashes and brain tissue changes in healthy drivers. The relationship between traffic crashes and leukoaraiosis, a common magnetic resonance imaging finding, was investigated in this study. METHODS A total of 3,930 automobile drivers (2,037 men and 1,893 women; age, 21-87 years) who underwent brain magnetic resonance...