BACKGROUND Electric bike (E-bike)-related deaths have been increasing rapidly in China and such injuries may be partly attributable to unsafe riding practice. OBJECTIVES To describe potentially unsafe riding behaviours among electric bikers (E-bikers) and to investigate factors influencing these practices in China. METHODS In September 2012, a cross-sectional observation study including a s...

Driving an automobile autonomously on rural roads requires knowledge about the geometry of the road. Furthermore, knowledge about the meaning of each lane of the road is needed in order to decide which lane should be taken and if the vehicle can do a lane change. This paper addresses the problem of extracting additional information about lanes. The information is extracted from the types of roa...

As South Africa’s road system comprises a total road network of rural and urban roads of approximately 534 000 kilometres, it is of utmost importance to have an effective road network level management system in place, which utilises reliable traffic loading data for long-term planning. Road authorities are therefore largely dependent on the availability and accuracy of traffic loading informati...

An approach for the automatic extraction of roads from digital aerial imagery is proposed. It is optimized for rural areas and makes use of versions of an aerial image with different resolutions. Roads are modeled as a network of intersections and links between these intersections, and are found by a grouping process. The context of roads is hierarchically structured into a global and a local l...

Main Article: Reflection on the Development of a Research Agenda in Rural Health Lisa Bourke Department of Rural Health, The University of Melbourne PO Box 6500, Shepparton, VIC 3632, AUSTRALIA [email protected] James D. Best Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Nanyang Technological University, Novena Campus 11 Mandalay Road, SINGAPORE 308232 [email protected] John Wakerman Faculty of Medi...

Small rural communities often lack the expertise and resources necessary to address speeding and the persistent challenge of slowing high-speed through traffic. The entrances to communities are especially problematic given that drivers must transition from a high-speed, often-rural roadway setting to a low-speed community setting. A number of traffic-calming devices were evaluated to determine ...

this paper examines the effect of the poor road transportation network on crop production in one of the rural agrarian local government of kwara state, nigeria. a well-structured interview schedule was conducted to elicit information from 120 crop farmers using a two-stage sampling technique. findings from the study revealed that the poor road transportation network in their area had led to a r...

objectives this study aimed to measure road traffic fatality rates and years of lost life, and also to depict a view of trends in road traffic deaths from 2004 to 2010 in yazd city, a province in central iran. materials and methods this retrospective case study analyzed road traffic deaths that were classified under the v01 - v99 codes of the icd-10 in yazd province from march 2004 to march 201...

Mobile phone use while driving is increasing among road users. Although most countries made illegal the cell phone use while driving, its use is still common across drivers both for calling and texting. Several studies investigated the distraction factors related to the use of mobile while driving and the effects on road safety. The main findings of these studies demonstrated an increasing of r...