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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Road safety"”.
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Community-based feedback to promote road safety
… the effects of community-based feedback on the safety belt use of drivers in a small community in Southwest Virginia, while drivers on an intersecting highway served as a control group. An AB design was used to test the effects of the feedback on belt use. Turn signal use and right and left hand …
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3D Object Detection for Road Safety at Urban Intersections
Road safety is a critical issue, with road trauma resulting in 1.25 million fatalities and 50 million injuries annually worldwide. Using crash data and traditional methods, it can take years and even decades to collect enough data to evaluate the safety of complex road infrastructure, such as …
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Developing a 'Road Safety Desert' Methodology for South Africa
Road safety is a significant problem in today's world, with the number of fatalities caused by road traffic crashes rising every year. The road safety problem has been described as ‘an epidemic on wheels' (Lamont, 2010), which is substantiated by the fact that over 1.35 million people die each year …
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An investigation of driver attitudes towards road safety in Kuwait
… the findings of a study of a substantial road accident database for Kuwait and a supplementary questionnaire survey to further understand related driver behaviour.<br/>Police accident reports relating to fatality and injury for the year 2002 were collected from the General Investigation …
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Investigation of the road safety measures around schools in Ethekwini
Globally, road traffic injury is a leading cause of death and disability in children aged 15 to 19 and the second leading cause of death in children between the ages 10 to 14 years. This thesis reviewed literature regarding the extent of road traffic injuries involving child pedestrians, the risk …
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Integrating Novel Connected Vehicle Event Data for Proactive Road Safety Improvement
Despite substantial progress in advancing road safety, fatalities and injuries from road crashes continue to pose a major public health concern globally. This dissertation explored the integration of novel Connected Vehicle (CV) hard braking event (HBE) data for proactive road safety improvement. …
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The impact of localized road accident information on road safety awareness
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that road traffic accidents represent the third leading cause of ‘death and disease’ worldwide. Many countries have, therefore, launched safety campaigns that are intended to reduce road traffic accidents by increasing public awareness. In almost every …
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Enhancing Road Safety through Machine Learning for Prediction of Unsafe Driving Behaviors
Road accidents pose a significant threat, leading to fatalities and injuries with far-reaching consequences. This study addresses two crucial challenges in road safety: analyzing traffic intersections to enhance safety by predicting potentially risky situations, and monitoring driver activity to …
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Beyond Scaring Them Straight: Assessing Alternative Measures of Persuasion in Road Safety Campaigns
Worldwide, young drivers are involved in more road traffic collisions than any other age group. Comprehensive driver training and various forms of pre- and- post-test road safety interventions (RSIs) are in place, but young drivers continue to be involved in more at-fault, fatal collisions than …
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Unpacking road safety at a district level - the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… in different areas are exposed to varying road environments. These road environments include, for instance, the mode usage of the population that exposes them to varying traffic conditions. The literature suggests that there is a need to understand road fatalities further, so as to …
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Quantifying the Impact of Pavement Surface Properties on Road Safety: A Data-Driven Approach
The Highway Safety Manual's (HSM) safety performance functions (SPFs) are widely used for network screening and project prioritization; however, most formulations focus on volumetric exposure and geometry and omit pavement surface characteristics that govern tire–road interaction. Despite the …
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Road safety : an analysis of shortcomings with proposals for improvements from a road engineering perspective
… injured in traffic accidents on Malta's roads. Recent statistics indicate that the accident rate is on the increase and, if appropriate measures are not taken, the current increase in traffic will undoubtedly lead to a further rise in the number of accidents. The main causes of road …
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Road safety and the role of the employer: a case study of a western multinational in Oman
Global data highlights the scale of road traffic driving harm showing 1.24 million deaths, and a further 20 to 50 million injuries annually, making it the eight-leading cause of death globally. A range of studies has shed light on the causes of such harm, its main contributing factors and the …
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A Sociotechnical Systems Approach to Road Safety in a Low- and Medium- Income Country: Gauteng Province South Africa
This PhD thesis investigates road fatalities in Gauteng Province, South Africa, from 2015 to 2020. Using a Sociotechnical Systems framework, the study examines how social and technical elements interact to influence road safety outcomes. Drawing on data analytics and mathematical modelling, the …
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The Effect of Road Safety Measures in Reducing Road Traffic Accidents in Dar Es Salaam: The Case of Kinondoni District
… of this study was to examine the effects of road safety measure in reducing road traffic accidents in Dar es Salaam city. The study wanted to fill the gap that why despite of all efforts made by the government in establishing and implementing road safety measure, still the problem of road …
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Routine journeys, complex networks: media-centrism, the dispositif of road safety, and practices of commuting by car in everyday Ireland
Road safety is regarded as one of the most significant public health issues in the world. In Ireland, strategies for the mitigation of the effects of road traffic accidents appear in policy documents such as the Road Safety Strategy which is then disseminated via various media outlets. Such an …
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Modelling factors affecting the severities of injury from motor vehicle traffic crashes in Namibia using the 2009-2016 National Road Safety Council data
… Despite Namibia having a well- developed road network, MVTC are the third highest cause of death in the country with 23.9 per 100 000 MVTC fatality rate recorded. This study was conducted in Namibia to model factors affecting the severity of injuries from MVTC. The study purpose was to …
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An investigation into the reduction of road safety risk in Cape Town through the use of microscopic simulation modelling : a vehicle-pedestrian and infrastructure interaction assessment
The record of road traffic fatalities in South Africa at around 15,000 per year has continued unabated over the last decade and has led to South African cities consistently featuring at the top of the list of worst known locations for road fatalities around the world. Worryingly, these statistics …
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Regression analysis for estimation of the influencing factors on road accident injuries in Oman Poisson Regression Model and Poisson Alternatives
Road safety programs use statistical models to predict the occurrence of accidents and casualties and to identify the influencing factors that affect their occurrence. They are also used to identify the causes of an accident and the hazardous locations where more accidents happen (the hot spots or …
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