The ability to travel safely and independently is very important for participation in many aspects of modern life and the police have an important role in maintaining safety on the roads. Although people with hearing impairments form a significant percentage of the population in the United Kingdom (estimated at 1 in 7 by the Royal National Institute of Deaf People), there has been little resear...

Pavement frictional characteristics are commonly determined by conducting skid tests in accordance with ASTM Standard E274. The results of these tests [skid number (SN)] are used in ranking roads to establish construction priorities and to estimate tirepavement friction in accident analysis. The role of SN in these two applications is addressed. There are serious limitations constraining the us...

This study was designed to explore the combinational effect of roadway and traffic characteristics national rural roads on fatal serious-injury crashes in Namibia. Namibia, like many other countries Southern Africa, experiences high numbers high-severity crashes, particularly its road network. The applied Generalised Poisson regression models analyse dataset. results indicate that are almost al...

Backover injuries to pedestrians are a significant road safety issue, but their prevalence is underestimated as the majority of such injuries are often outside the scope of official road injury recording systems, which just focus on public roads. Based on experimental evidence, reversing cameras have been found to be effective in reducing the rate of collisions when reversing; the evidence for ...

Overabundant white-tailed deer are one of the most serious threats to woodland plant communities in the Chicago area. Moreover, the abundant deer in a highly populated area causes economic harm and poses hazards to human safety through collisions with vehicles. The artificial conditions causing the overabundance and resulting consequences qualify the white-tailed deer in the Chicago area to be ...

Road sign detection is important to a robotic vehicle that drives on roads automatically. In this paper, road signs are detected by means of rules that restrict and require signs to appear only in limited regions using wireless. They are then recognized using a PAN ID matching method. The method is fast and can easily be modified to include new classes of signs. As with any vehicle, an autonomo...

Road traffic crashes and injuries constitute a major health, economic and developmental challenge for many African countries. With only 4% of the world's motor vehicles, African roads witness more than 10% of the world total collision fatalities. With further motorisation, the number of road traffic crashes, injuries and fatalities are expected to grow. This study updates on the status, trends,...

Single carriageway multilane roads are not, in general, a very safe type of road, mainly because of the high number of seriously injured victims in head-on collisions, when compared with dual carriageway multilane roads, with a median barrier. In this paper the results of a study on the effect of the application of several low cost engineering measures, aimed at road infrastructure correction a...

Every winter, hundreds of drivers and passengers die on slushy, snowy or icy Canadian roads — and this win­ ter is no exception. Adverse road conditions in cold weather contribute to about 12% of traffic fatalities and in­ juries, with substantial local variability.1 Although traffic fatal ities have decreased over time thanks to safety initiatives,1 Canadians seem to have become accustomed to ...

Due to population growth and the increasing number of vehicles on rural roads, traffic accidents have become one most important problems in transportation system, which greatly affects social economic situation people. The main purpose this study was apply analytical method investigate factors affecting severity roads Guilan, Iran, order determine effective factor occurrence these accidents. At...