Motorcycles generate dissimilar sound patterns under different working conditions. Generally, the experienced mechanics in authorized service stations take test rides to hear the sounds produced to diagnose the faults. The presented work attempts to locate the faults in motorcycles based on the sound. The features are extracted using pseudospectra of sound signals. Integration is performed for ...

This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of Antilock-Brakes (ABS) on motorcycles in reducing real-life crashes. Since the European Parliament has voted a legislation to make ABS mandatory for all new motorcycles over 125cc from 2016, the fitment rate in the entire Europe is likely to increase in the years to come. Previous research, however, analyzed mostly large displacement motorcycle...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic inequalities in nonuse of seatbelts in cars and helmets on motorcycles in Kurdistan Province, west of Iran, 2009. METHODS The data used in this study was collected from the data gathered in non-communicable disease surveillance system (NCDSS) in 2009 in Kurdistan. A total of 1000 people were included in this study. The outcom...

Motorcycles are popular in Asian countries including Sri Lanka and it is becoming an important part of transportation in the country. Despite its popularity, little research has been conducted to study the impact of motorcycles on road safety in Sri Lanka. The objective of this study was to investigate the risk factors of crashes involving motorcycles. Data was obtained from Police crash record...

BACKGROUND We examined whether sales of new motorcycles was a mechanism to explain the relationship between motorcycle fatalities and gasoline prices. METHODS The data came from the Motorcycle Industry Council, Energy Information Administration and Fatality Analysis Reporting System for 1984-2009. Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) regressions estimated the effect of inflation-a...

The increased popularity of mopeds and motor scooters in Australia and elsewhere in the last decade has contributed substantially to the greater use of powered two-wheelers (PTWs) as a whole. As the exposure of mopeds and scooters has increased, so too has the number of reported crashes involving those PTW types, but there is currently little research comparing the safety of mopeds and, particu...

a Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University of 6 Technology, Wufong, Taichung 41349, Taiwan. 7 b Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 8 100, Taiwan. 9 c Division of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, National Health Research 10 Institutes 11 d Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Chung Shan Me...

Motorcycles have become a popular form of transportation in the United States. Since 1961, motorcycle registrations have increased at nearly four times the rate of all other vehicles . In 1977, motorcycle registrations in this country passed five million. In the same year about 500,000 motorcycles were involved in accidents, resulting in about 4,000 deaths and 400,000 injuries (1). Motorcycles ...

This poster presents a study to assess one's ability to detect motorcycles under different conditions of conspicuity while performing a secondary visual load task. Previous research in which participants were required to detect motorcycles revealed differences in age (young adults/older adult) as well as differences associated with motorcycle conspicuity conditions. Past research has specifical...