In Nigeria, deaths from road traffic accidents have increased from 18 per month in 1988 to 102 per month in 2000. Victims include drivers, passengers and pedestrians. Although there is a minimum legal requirement for visual acuity before a driver’s licence can be issued, this is not implemented in practice. This study investigated the visual acuity of minibus drivers providing public transport ...

In this article, we study the psychometric properties of a short scale (TRANS-18) which was designed to detect safe behaviors (personal and vehicle-related) and psychophysiological disorders. 244 drivers participated in the study, including drivers of freight transport vehicles (regular, dangerous and special), cranes, and passenger transport (regular transport and chartered coaches), ambulance...

The purpose of this Study study is to identify and rank the development drivers of knowledge-based, technology-driven businesses. This work is conducted as a case study in Fars Province Science and Technology Park. It is a descriptive survey in terms of purpose since a part of its data is collected through questionnaires and is of surveying type because it describes the existing conditions. The...

Pervasive digitization of human environment has dramatically changed our everyday lives. New technologies which have become an integral part of our daily routine have deeply affected our perception of the surrounding world and have opened qualitatively new opportunities. In an urban environment, the influence of such changes is especially tangible and acute. For example, ubiquitous computing (a...

Infectious diseases can constitute public health emergencies of international concern when a pathogen arises, acquires new characteristics, or is deliberately released, leading to the potential for loss of human lives as well as societal disruption. A wide range of risk drivers are now known to lead to and/or exacerbate the emergence and spread of infectious disease, including global trade and ...

road users such as drivers, motorists, motorcycle riders, bike riders and pedestrians play an important role in traffic safety. most accidents can be prevented by accurate and regulated driving based on the traffic laws and regulation. in fact by recognizing the errors made by violated drivers we are able to find the appropriate lawful solution for them and to avoid repeating violations made by...

Emotional surveillance of drivers possesses significant potential for increased security within passenger transport. In an automotive setting the interaction can further be improved by social awareness of an MMI. Within this scope the detection of security relevant behavior patterns as aggressiveness or sadness is discussed. The focus lies on real-life usage respecting online processing, subjec...

This article proposes a Lagrangean relaxation approach to solve integrated duty and vehicle scheduling problems arising in public transport. The approach is based on the proximal bundle method for the solution of concave decomposable functions, which is adapted for the approximate evaluation of the vehicle and duty scheduling components. The primal and dual information generated by the bundle m...

Brazil is one of the world leaders on traffic accidents. The present article studied the excessive daytime sleepiness of public transport drivers in two Brazilian's capitals and their level of attention. It was conducted here a descriptive transversal study of a convenient sample. For the evaluation were used: anthropometric variables, a Sleep Questionnaire, Epworth Scale of Sonolency (ESS), Di...