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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"safety benefits"”.
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Scenario-Based Methodology for Predicting the Safety Benefits of Emerging Advanced Rider Assistance Systems (ARAS)
… Despite decades of progress in automotive safety, motorcyclists continue to experience disproportionately high rates of serious and fatal injuries. The combination of inherent vulnerability, limited physical protection, and exposure to complex traffic environments led the motorcycle …
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Evaluation of safety benefits of the road cross section upgrading on the Okahandja Karibib road in Namibia
… proportions. The Decade of Action for Road Safety of the United Nations has the aim to reduce road fatalities (UN, 2017, page 23). This dissertation investigates the Global and Namibian road safety status. The global road fatality rate is 17.7 deaths per 100 000 population, and the Africa …
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Optimizing the selection of rumble strip design and construction
Rumble strips are proven cost-effective roadway safety measures in reducing traffic crashes by generating in-vehicle noise for alerting inattentive drivers who are about to leave their travel lanes and/or approach stop-controlled intersections. Despite these safety benefits, they generate external …
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Enhancement of transport safety through Cross Modal Switching
Transport safety has a direct impact on people’s lives despite considerable improvements in recent decades. By treating transport modes independently and not taking full account of modal options available, policymakers have overlooked potentially important and low cost contributions to overall …
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Fatal Crashes Caused By Light Trucks Relative To Cars: A Test Of The Offsetting Behavior Hypothesis
… whether drivers of light trucks offset perceived safety benefits associated with larger vehicles by driving more aggressively than drivers of cars, subsequently causing more fatal crashes, holding all else constant. An empirical model using data on pedestrian fatalities across the United States …
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REGULATING FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT’S USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY
… auditing and oversight, can enable public safety benefits while constraining unfettered use. However, flexibility is imperative; legal, ethical, and technical dimensions remain uncertain. The research concludes that nuanced, principled governance provides the most prudent path. The next …
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Potential impacts of connected-autonomous vehicles on congestion and safety : a look at Austin, Texas
… report looks at the potential congestion and safety benefits of a vehicle system highly saturated with CAVs in Austin, Texas. Traffic factors such as capacity, intersection delay, and crash rate are examined with respect to their effect on an urban corridor in Austin. The case study relies …
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EFFECT OF VEHICLE CONNECTIVITY ON THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF FREEWAY ACCELERATION SPEED CHANGE LANES
… values when compared with regular vehicles and safety benefits of CVs were examined. Sensitivity analysis was performed to investigate the effect of change in each input parameter on the output PNC.
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U.S. refugee policy in the era of homeland security: a comparative government analysis
… as well as deprives it of the economic and safety benefits of admitting and properly integrating refugees into U.S. society.
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A launch and recovery system for integrating unmanned ocean vehicles onto surface platforms
… to determine the feasibility, performance, and safety benefits of integrating an active heave compensating winch into the system.
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The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX Kernel in a high-level language
… challenges, and programmability and safety benefits. This dissertation contributes Biscuit, a kernel written in Go that implements enough of POSIX (virtual memory, mmap, TCP/IP sockets, a logging file system, poll, etc.) to execute significant applications. Biscuit makes liberal use …
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On Model- and Data-based Approaches to Structural Health Monitoring
… SHM will allow substantial economic and life-safety benefits to be realised across a wide range of applications. Several numerical and laboratory implementations have been successfully demonstrated. However, despite this research effort, real-world applications of SHM as originally envisaged …
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Investigating sources and modes of communication through which rural raised drivers learn and experience cultural models of driving and their impact on driving safety
… faces a serious problem with its traffic safety: there are more traffic-related injuries and fatalities in Saskatchewan than in other Canadian provinces. This issue is particularly problematic on rural roads, where young rural drivers are involved in a disproportionately high number of …
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Analysis of approach stability and challenges in operational implementation of RNP approach procedures
… at the airport level. Among the various proposed benefits of RNP approaches, this study analyzed potential safety benefits related to improvements in approach stability. In total, 11,062 individual approaches at four airports were analyzed using radar (ASDE-X) data, of which 364 (3.29%) were …
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Comparison of Augmented Reality Rearview and Radar Head-Up Displays for Increasing Spatial Awareness During Exoskeleton Operation
… with pedestrians, negating the health and safety benefits of exoskeletons. Exoskeletons could be equipped with visual aids to improve SA, like rearview cameras or radar displays. However, research on design and evaluation of such displays for exoskeleton users are absent in the literature. …
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Exploring the Considerations of School Zone Speed Control in Traffic Signal Timing
School zone speed control is a crucial safety intervention that assists in slowing down traffic and warning drivers to pay more attention to vulnerable road users. This restriction may result in impacts on arterial traffic operations, including speed reduction and potentially additional stops at …
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Understanding Risks to Patient Safety from the Perspective of Nurse Practitioners Delivering Primary Health Care Using Telemedicine
… Telemedicine improved access, affordability, and safety by supporting physical distancing. However, the rapid shift from in-person care also introduced new patient safety risks. Nurse practitioners in primary health care (NP-PHCs), who provide comprehensive care across the lifespan, are well …
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Bayesian Phase I Dose Finding In Cancer Trials
… regression model, the new design shows more safety benefits for trials in which more late-onset toxicities are expected. As a trade-off, the new design requires more patients on average.</p> <p>The design based on a discrete-time multi-state (DTMS) model has three important attributes: (1) …
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Hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration system implementation into a district general hospital: a mixed method evaluation of discharge communication.
… national e-health strategies to produce patient safety benefits. No previous study has evaluated the impact of HEPMA implementation on either discharge information communication or occurence of discharge prescribing errors. The aims of this thesis were to assess the impact of HEPMA system …
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A Framework and Analytical Methods for Evaluation of Preferential Treatment for Emergency and Transit Vehicles at Signalized Intersections
… research. The first is a method to evaluate the safety benefits of preemption based on conflict analysis. The second is an algorithm, suitable for use in future traffic simulation models, that incorporates the impact of auto driver behavior into the determination of travel time savings for …
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