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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"driver injury"”.
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Driver injury severity at u.s. highway-rail crossings
… accident frequency prediction models and driver injury severity models. Accident frequency prediction at highway-rail grade crossings have been investigated by previous studies using varied statistical models. Few studies, however, have focused on driver injury severity studies. Three …
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DATA-DRIVEN BAYESIAN METHOD-BASED TRAFFIC CRASH DRIVER INJURY SEVERITY FORMULATION, ANALYSIS, AND INFERENCE
… losses, and comprehensive examination of crash injury outcome patterns is of practical importance. By inferring the parameters of interest from prior information and studied datasets, Bayesian models are efficient methods in data analysis with more accurate results, but their applications in …
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Driver Injury Metric and Risk Variability as a Function of Occupant Position in Real World Motor Vehicle Crashes
… models (HBMs) have the potential to elucidate injury mechanisms, predict injury risk, and evaluate injury mitigation system effectiveness, ultimately leading to a reduced risk of fatality and severe injury in MVCs. The purpose of the work presented herein was to create a novel framework for FE …
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Identifying and Quantifying Factors Affecting Injury Severity of Young Drivers Involved in Single Vehicle Crashes Occurring within Curves on Rural Two-Lane Roads in Louisiana
This study investigates factors affecting young driver injury levels for single vehicle crashes occurring within curves on rural two-lane roads in Louisiana. Although the number of fatal and serious injury crashes involving young drivers is declining, young drivers are still overrepresented in …
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Evaluation of Lower Extremity Injury Mitigation and Investigation of Thoracolumbar Loading of Restrained Occupants During Frontal Crashes
… literature as a leading cause of death and injury. Similarly, in motorsports, on-track crashes are the leading cause of driver injury.
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Open wheel racecar steering
… racecar is the only directional control the driver possesses while driving. Steering linkages must be carefully designed to allow cars to navigate turns without exhausting the driver. Motorsports vehicles are designed to make tight turns while maximizing tire grip to maintain higher …
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Harmful events in guardrail crashes
… real world crash conditions and provide data on injury distributions and harmful events in guardrail-related accidents.;Recognizing these limitations, reported guardrail accidents from Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) databases were examined. Data analysis was done using two-way and …
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Analysis Of Various Car-truck Crash Types Based On Ges And Fars Crash Databases Using Mutlinomial And Binary Logit Model
… factors and variables related to driver characteristics in these car-truck crashes are investigated. To examine the crash characteristics and to investigate the significant factors related to a car-truck crash, this study analyzed five years of data (2000-2004) of the General …
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Investigation of W-Beam Energy-Absorbing Guardrail End Terminal Safety Performance Using Finite Element Modeling
… highway safety community on the vehicle-based injury criteria used in guardrail regulations. The objectives of this study were 1) to develop and validate a Finite Element (FE) model of the ET-Plus, a commonly used energy-absorbing guardrail end terminal; 2) to examine the conditions of …
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Influence of Advanced Airbags on Injury Risk During Frontal Crashes
… of airbags and a belt use rate of over 85% U.S. drivers involved in crashes continue to be at risk of serious thoracic injury. One hypothesis is that this risk may be due to the lack of airbag deployment or the airbag \'bottoming-out\' in some cases, causing drivers to make contact with the …