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Predicting duration of traffic accidents based on cost-sensitive Bayesian network and weighted K-nearest neighbor

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems / Taylor & Francis, 2019
With the development of urbanization, road congestion has become increasingly serious, and an important cause is the traffic accidents. In this article, we aim to predict the duration of traffic accidents given a set of historical records and the feature
Li Kuang   +4 more
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Human factors related to major road traffic accidents in China

Traffic Injury Prevention, 2019
Objective: The goals of this research are to: (i) investigate the contributing factors of major road traffic accidents using a human factors classification that follows the ideas of the human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS); (ii ...
Yingyu Zhang   +4 more
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Alcohol misuse and traffic accidents

The Lancet, 2007
In their Review (Dec 23/30, p 2231),1 Marc Moss and Ellen Burnham highlight the effect of alcohol abuse on inpatients who need admission to the intensive care unit. In our opinion, however, they paid little attention to the effect of alcohol intake on trauma caused by traffic accidents. Alcohol-impaired driving is a serious threat to health. In the USA,
CAPUTO, FABIO   +2 more
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CHILDREN IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

Pediatrics, 1969
The part that children play in traffic accidents has been studied by numerous workers from differing points of view. Slätis,1 in a study of 5,291 persons injured in traffic accidents and receiving medical treatment in Sweden, found that 16.3% were less than 15 years of age.
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An IoT Cloud System for Traffic Monitoring and Vehicular Accidents Prevention Based on Mobile Sensor Data Processing

IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018
The sudden traffic slowdown especially in fast scrolling roads and highways characterized by a scarce visibility is one of the major causes of accidents among motorized vehicles.
A. Celesti   +5 more
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Smoking and Traffic Accidents

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1968
To the Editor:— Recent articles inThe Journal( 201 :861, 1967; 203 : 1100, 1968; and 205 :266, 1968) reaffirm the well-established relationship between drinking and traffic accidents. Studies have not, however, determined the effect of another popular pastime: smoking while driving.
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Child Traffic Accidents: An Investigation of Accident Factors

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1979
With the aim of examining accident factors in detail, 124 children aged 0–14 years were investigated; these comprised 90.5% of all children in the Odense area who in 1974 collided with a motor vehicle either as pedestrian or cyclist, and were seen at the casualty ward, Odense University Hospital.
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Accidents Detection and Prevention System to reduce Traffic Hazards using IR Sensors

2018 7th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions) (ICRITO), 2018
Traffic Hazards is one of the major problems facing across the world. One of the major causes of traffic hazards is increase in vehicles and dense population. Reducing traffic hazards is one the major challenges as majority of the deaths across the world
Naji Taaib Said Al Wadhahi   +4 more
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Cellular phones and traffic accidents

Public Health, 1997
Cellular phone use in motor vehicles is becoming an increasing world-wide phenomenon. Using data obtained from traffic accidents reported between 1992 and 1995 in the state of Oklahoma, USA, this study examined statistical rate-ratios of accident characteristics between drivers with or without cellular phones.
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The Analysis of Traffic Accidents

Journal of Navigation, 1971
A marine traffic accident may be defined in the wider sense as a collision or stranding and in a narrow sense as a collision. Several reports are available on the causes of collisions and on the relation of collision frequency to such factors as location, weather and time; S.
Reijiro Shiobara, Yahei Fujii
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