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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration"”.
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Assessing the Effects of the Ignition-Interlock Device on Recidivism
In 2012, there were 10,322 traffic fatalities in the U.S. involving at least one driver with a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. This was approximately 31% of all traffic fatalities that year (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2013a). The ignition-interlock device is …
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Exploring entities in text with descriptive non-photorealistic rendering
… a collection of vehicle complaint reports from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and through a qualitative evaluation study, we demonstrate how our system can support tasks such as comparing the reliability of di fferent makes and models, finding interesting facts, and …
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Development of an Electronic Stability Control for Improved Vehicle Handling using Co-Simulation
… America and European countries, each defined by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and United Nations (UN). The proposed research project will enable automotive engineers and researchers to perform full vehicle virtual simulations with ESC capabilities.
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FlightCrew Browser : a safe browser for drivers
… mobile browser interfaces can bring forth safety issues when users browse the web even though their attention is required elsewhere, as it is during driving. FlightCrew Browser is a crowd-adapted web browser using speech input, touch input, speech output, and visual output in appropriate, …
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DEVELOPMENT OF SIMILARITY SCORING TECHNIQUES FOR MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH COMPARISONS
… To help prevent these injuries and deaths, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) conduct crash tests, which are designed to ensure a minimum level of safety for all vehicles. To gain information on real-world injury …
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The Biomechanics of Thoracic Skeletal Response
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that in 2008 there were a total of 37,261 automotive related fatalities, 26,689 of which were vehicle occupants. It has been reported that in automotive collisions chest injuries rank second only to head injuries in overall number …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Electronic Stability Systems in Reducing Truck Rollovers
… was also determined. As requested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), this study also serves as a comparison between the Bendix system and the Meritor WABCO system which has already been tested by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
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Forecasting 65+ travel : an integration of cohort analysis and travel demand modeling
… extracted from the 1977, 1983, 1990, and 1995 National Personal Transportation Surveys (NPTS) are used to estimate discrete and joint discrete/continuous demand models. Multiple imputation is used to impute missing survey data. Iterative proportional fitting is used to simulate future …
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Multidimensional Warnings: Determining an Appropriate Stimulus for a Curve-Warning Device
… each year as a result of motor-vehicle crashes (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2003). The dangers with respect to curves exist, from late notification of direction and speed, varying methods for determining advisory speeds, as well as driver unfamiliarity and/or over confidence. …
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Driver Behavior Analysis Based on Real On-Road Driving Data in the Design of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems
… the roads increases every day. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the overwhelming majority of serious crashes (over 94 percent) are caused by human error. The broad aim of this research is to develop a driver behavior model using real on-road data in the …
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Investigating campus cycling environment of a large southeastern university from an ecological perspective
… accident. According to a survey completed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 88% of cyclists felt most threatened by motorists on the road and 37% perceived uneven walkways and roadways were a threat to personal safety. The purpose of this study was to examine college student …
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Validity of Self-Reported Data on Seat Belt Use: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
… health and economic problems. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), someone in America is injured in a motor vehicle crash every 14 seconds and someone is killed every 12 minutes (as cited in Ad Council, 2003). It is widely accepted that increased use of safety …
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Injury Mechanisms, Tissue Properties, and Response of the Post-Mortem Human Abdomen in Frontal Impact
… fatalities in the United States. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported over 21,250 vehicle occupant fatalities in 2011, with 1,240,000 injuries sustained by passenger car occupants alone. MVCs are a common cause of blunt abdominal injuries. It has been …
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Evaluation of a Prototype System for the Automatic Capture of School Bus Passing Violations
… phone survey of the public conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that more than 90 percent of respondents rated "passing a school bus that has its red lights flashing and the stop arm in full view" as a somewhat or extremely dangerous driving …
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Investigating the Roles of Time Perspective and Emerging Adulthood in Predicting Driving Behavior
… of death for individuals 2 to 34 years of age (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2009c). Of particular interest are 18 to 25 year olds or <em>emerging adults</em> because of their increased crash risk. The prevalence of crashes attributable to the combination of driving …
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A university-based incentive program: motivating large-scale safety belt use through indigeneous personnel
… demonstrated beneficial impact of incentives for safety belt promotion in a variety of environmental settings and has prompted the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to promote and support community wide incentive programs for motivating safety belt use nationwide. Although …
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Assessment of Crash Energy - Based Side Impact Reconstruction Accuracy
… the most important data elements recorded in the National Automotive Sampling System / Crashworthiness Data System (NASS/CDS) is the vehicle change in velocity, or ?V. ?V is the vector change in velocity experienced by a vehicle during a collision, and is widely used as a measure of collision …
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Effect of Belt Usage Reporting Errors on Injury Risk Estimates
… the effect of belt usage reporting errors of National Automotive Sampling System-Crash Data System (NASS-CDS) investigators on injury risk estimates. Current estimates of injury risk are developed under the assumption that NASS-CDS investigators are always accurate at determining seat belt …
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Applications of Event Data Recorder Derived Crash Severity Metrics to Injury Prevention
… to evaluate the crash performance of roadside safety hardware are outlined in The Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) [4]. During roadside barrier tests, the assessment of occupant injury risk is crucial, as the purpose of the hardware is to prevent the vehicle from colliding with a …
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A Framework for Incident Detection and notification in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
… over half of all congestion events are caused by highway incidents rather than by rush-hour traffic in big cities. The US-DOT also notes that in a single year, congested highways due to traffic incidents cost over $75 billion in lost worker productivity and over 8.4 billion gallons of fuel. …
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