CONTEXT Currently, little is known about rates of death by cause and country among US travellers. Understanding the risk by cause and country is imperative to risk communication and the development of risk reduction strategies. METHODS Publicly available data on non-natural deaths of US citizens abroad were gathered from January 2003 to December 2009 from the US Department of State's Departme...

Accident analysis and prevention are helpful to ensure the sustainable development of transportation. The aim this research was investigate factors associated with severity low-visibility-related rural single-vehicle crashes. Firstly, a latent class clustering model implemented partition whole-dataset into relatively homogeneous sub-dataset. Then, spatial random parameters logit established for...

Motorcycle is a popular mode of transportation in many developing countries, including Pakistan. Since the last decade, registered number motorcycles Pakistan has increased by six times, constituting 74% total vehicles. However, limited research efforts have been made to investigate motorcycle-related safety issues Thus, relationship between potential risk factors and injury outcomes motorcycle...

The UDSMR collects and redistributes data from rehabilitation hospitals nationwide for use in evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of their rehabilitation programs. It provides the most comprehensive data available on rehabilitation patients across diagnostic categories. This chapter provides UDSMR information on people injured in other motor vehicles and motorcycle crashes, including de...

The role of powered two-wheeler (PTW) transport from the perspective a more sustainable mobility system is undermined by associated high injury risk due to crashes. Motorcycle-based active safety systems promise avoid or mitigate many these crashes suffered PTW riders. Despite this, most are still only in prototype phase and understanding which have greatest chance reducing an important step pr...

One of the most important needs of pedestrians is safety at crossing points, especially at intersections. Intersections are important parts of the urban road network because any disruption in them reduces the capacity of the entire network. The main objective of this research is to propose an appropriate method for prioritizing urban intersections with considering the important factors affectin...