spinal cord injuries (sci) are highly disabling and injuries. this study aims to describe the demographic and epidemiologic data on auto accident patients who were admitted at khatam alanbia hospital. the results obtained from 73 sci patients treated on the sci inpatient units of the khatam alanbia hospital (from march 2009 to march 2013) were evaluated retrospectively. then patient gender, age...

road safety is a great subject to engage children and young people. it's a very important subject because everyone uses roads and road danger impacts on everyone. children don't have the same ability to judge distances, speed, and noise direction. therefore, it's really important to ensure that children have a good understanding of basic street safety when they start walking arou...

To evaluate the road safety development of a country over time, the percentage change in the number of road fatalities is traditionally the main indicator. However, simply considering the reduction in the road fatalities may not correctly reflect the real improvement in road safety because the transport circumstances of a country underlying the road fatalities also change every year. In this st...

The data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index measures the productivity change over time. It can be further decomposed into two components: the change in efficiency and the technical change. In this study, a specific road safety outputoriented DEA-based Malmquist productivity index is introduced to assess the changes in road safety performance of 26 EU countries from 20...

sleep deprivation (sd) increases the risk of human-error related accidents and a major cause of motor vehicle accidents. the overall prevalence of insufficient sleep in adults has been estimated at 20%. according to a comprehensive study prevalence of daytime sleepiness, among young adults (age 21 to 30 years), the average nocturnal sleep time during weekdays was 6.7 hours and on weekends was 7...

human factors issues associated with roadway design and operations are critical components of improving highway safety. first, the three major components of highway safety are driver behavior, vehicle safety, and roadway safety. the general philosophy in roadside safety follows the priorities of (1) remove the hazard, (2) relocate the hazard, (3) make the hazard forgiving, and (4) shield the ha...

road traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taking beh...

This paper summarises findings on the road safety performance and bus incidents in Melbourne along roads where bus priority measures had been applied. Results from an Empirical Bayes safety evaluation showed a 14% reduction in accidents (significant at 90% level). An empirical analysis of the incident types revealed significant changes in the proportion of incidents involving buses hitting stat...

Road safety performance indicators are comprehensible tools that provide a better understanding of current safety conditions and can be used to monitor the effect of policy interventions. New insights can be gained in case one road safety index is composed of all risk indicators. The overall safety performance can then be evaluated, and countries ranked. In this paper, a promising structure of ...