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...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to validate an assessment tool used by occupational therapists to evaluate on-road driving performance. METHODS The driving assessment was conducted over a 15-km route that consisted of a range of traffic situations and contained both directed and self-directed navigational instruction. The driving performance of four groups of drivers of different ages...

OBJECTIVES To generate a robust model of computerized sensory-motor and cognitive test performance to predict on-road driving assessment outcomes in older persons with diagnosed or suspected cognitive impairment. DESIGN A logistic regression model classified pass–fail outcomes of a blinded on-road driving assessment. Generalizability of the model was tested using leave-one-out cross-validatio...

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...

In order to achieve significant improvements in road safety at the national level, there is a need for a systematic approach to road safety management with clear responsibilities and accountability. In this paper – after a review of the literature on guidelines, recommendations and research findings – twelve essential elements of such a systematic approach are pointed out, and corresponding rel...

Wireless communication between vehicles enables both safety applications, such as accident avoidance, and nonsafety applications, such as traffic congestion alerts [1] with the intent of improving safety in driving conditions. Because the high costs of implementing limited test-bed environments constrain prototype testing, VANET researchers often turn instead to simulation toolsets from which a...