OBJECTIVE To identify variables that best predict a team's decision of driving ability in stroke patients from a predriving assessment. DESIGN Retrospective study of a 2-year predriving evaluation. SETTING Belgian Institute for Road Safety. PARTICIPANTS One hundred four patients with sequelae of first stroke. INTERVENTIONS Predriving assessments and road test. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Th...

Materials and methods The government budget documents from 5 ministries including Ministry of Transport, Education, Interior, Public Health and Royal Thai Police were reviewed. Two researchers identified budget used in road safety projects with 5-E strategies independently; the kappa analysis was used to test inter-rater reliability. Information from Thai Health Promotion Foundation and Road Sa...

BACKGROUND With population aging, drivers with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are increasing; however, there is little evidence available regarding their safety. OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate risk of unsafe on-road driving performance among older adults with MCI. METHOD The study was a cross-sectional observational study, set in Canberra, Australia. Participants were non-demented, current...

conclusions the seatbelt wearing rate among the study participants was much lower than the 90% rate reported among iranian drivers in 2010. mandating seatbelt use, as in most countries, will be more effective if a combination of factors such as changes in vehicle design, road safety, and driver and passenger behavior are taken into account. background seatbelts are a relatively low-cost safety ...

Safety of any particular Road way facility cannot be attributed to set of parameters specific to a certain domain. Unsignalized intersections are no exceptions, thus, making them an important area of study. This paper presents the results of the analysis of four parameters, namely road width, traffic control, lane marking and landuse; and their sub-class on the safety of unsignalized intersecti...

Every 6 seconds someone is killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. With 1.3 million road deaths each year this is a global epidemic comparable to malaria or Tuberculosis. Nine in ten road deaths and injuries are in developing countries. By comparison to other global killers, road injury is neglected. Road crashes are the leading global cause of death for young people under 25 years, a...

traffic safety work is a goal common to all public authorities, police agencies and organizations in bavaria. reducing the number of traffic fatalities in a sustainable manner and continuing to lower the number of traffic accidents and road traffic injuries is a task for society as a whole. the various measures being implemented in bavaria during the road safety campaign “bayern mobil – sicher ...

Abstract—Data Envelopment Analysis is a kind of important analyzing tool and research method in evaluation. As a method, introducing secondary relative evaluation method, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to evaluate road traffic safety in different areas based on optimizing evaluation index system. This paper mostly discusses the relatively safety of different areas. Keywords—road...

Problem statement: As vehicle population increases, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) become more significant and mandatory in today’s overpopulated world. Vital problems in transportation such as mobility and safety of transportation are considered more, especially in metropolitans and highways. The main road traffic monitoring aims are: the acquisition and analysis of traffic figures, ...