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The effect of social desirability on self reported and recorded road traffic accidents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The use of lie scales has a fairly long history in psychometrics, with the intention of identifying and correcting for socially desirable answers. This represents one type of common method variance (bias introduced when both predictors and predicted ...
Kline, T   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Optimising Traffic Safety – Locating Traffic Gendarmes Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2023
Turkey’s expanding population and growing economy have resulted in a significant increase in automobile ownership, leading to a rise in traffic volume and, subsequently, an increase in the number of accidents.
Adnan Abdulvahitoğlu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Culpable versus non-culpable traffic accidents; What is wrong with this picture? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
It is often implicitly or explicitly assumed in traffic accident research that drivers with accidents designated as non-culpable are a random sample from the population.
af Wåhlberg, Anders,   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The analysis of traffic accidents on Lithuanian regional gravel roads

open access: yesTransport, 2013
A great number of serious road accidents occur all over the world every year. In spite of some progress in this area, road traffic safety has remained an acute problem in recent years.
Stanislav Mamčic   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

TEMPORAL STATISTIC OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN TURKEY [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Traffic accidents form clusters in terms of geographic space and over time which themselves exhibit distinct spatial and temporal patterns. There is an imperative need to understand how, where and when traffic accidents occur in order to develop ...
S. Erdogan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire as predictor of road traffic accidents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) has mainly been used as predictor of self-reported road traffic accidents. The associations between crashes and the violation and error factors of the DBQ however, may be spuriously high due to reporting bias ...
Kline, Theresa,   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Reported prevalence of health conditions that affect drivers

open access: yesCogent Medicine, 2017
Drivers’ health and fitness are essential factors in order to predict performance outcomes and to promote road safety. It is a demonstrated fact that drivers with (physical and mental) health impairments or illnesses have more probabilities of being ...
Francisco Alonso   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smog and traffic accident

open access: yesNippon Eiseigaku Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Hygiene), 1966
Some measures to counter car accident have been taken from various angels in recent times, while their epidemiological consideration has not sufficiently been given. The presentation here is a study on the latter problem.Three elements have to be taken into account when car accident is to be investigated epidemiologically; first, car traffic itself ...
Y, Shiraishi   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Survey of accidents in suburban Tehran and the prediction of future events based on a time-series model

open access: yesElectronic Physician, 2014
Background: Car accidents are currently a social issue globally because they result in the deaths of many people. The aim of this study was to examine traffic accidents in suburban Tehran and forecast the number of future accidents using a time-series ...
Ghulam Heidar Teymuri   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feature Recognition of Urban Road Traffic Accidents Based on GA-XGBoost in the Context of Big Data

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
The identification of the characteristics of urban road traffic accidents is of great significance for reducing traffic accidents and the corresponding losses. In the context of big data, to accurately understand the characteristics of traffic accidents,
Yi Qu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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