The use of a global positioning system (GPS) device for navigation tasks has been well studied and found to be more effective in guiding a user to their destination than traditional road maps. In this paper, we examine how the recall of our environment is affected by using each of these methods. We evaluate the two devices by measuring semantic and geospatial recall of 18 participants after a n...

Collisions at rail level crossings (RLXs) represent a major challenge for both road safety and rail safety professionals. RLX collisions are typically high-severity and high-cost, often involving multiple injuries and/or fatalities as well as major disruptions to the transportation network. Most research examining road users’ behaviour at RLXs has focused exclusively on drivers and consequently...

ninety percent of road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, which claim less than half the world's registered vehicle fleet. iran and georgia have a strategic position in the region and as a bridge connect europe to asia. almost all over the world countries are planning and implementing solutions to stop tsunami of road accidents. in this paper the main challenges of r...

BACKGROUND Road traffic injuries continue to exert a huge burden on the health care system in Kenya. Few studies on the severity of road traffic injuries have been conducted in Kenya. We carried out a cross-sectional study to determine factors associated with severity of road traffic injuries in a public hospital in Thika district, Kenya. METHODS Road crash victims attending the Thika distric...

BACKGROUND Most young people killed in road crashes are known as vulnerable road users. A combination of physical and developmental immaturity as well as inexperience increases the risk of road traffic accidents with a high injury severity rate. Understanding injury mechanism and pattern in a group of young road users may reduce morbidity and mortality. This study analyzes injury patterns and o...

In crowdsourced map services, digital maps are created and updated manually by volunteered users. Existing service providers usually provide users with a feature-rich map editor to add, drop, and modify roads. To make the map data more useful for widely-used applications such as navigation systems and travel planning services, it is important to provide not only the topology of the road network...

Background and Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) staff are frequently faced with road traffic injury victims and also play role as various road users. This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices of ED staff towards road safety at referral trauma hospitals of Tabriz. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2020 in the referral traum...

In this paper a methodology for the development of multiple impact models for road networks is described. Road impacts can be categorized into impacts for different stakeholder groups, namely the public, the owner and the road users. The current investigations address multiple impacts only for road users, but the developed methodology can be extended to estimate the impacts of all stakeholder g...