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Fatal accidents at railway level crossings in Great Britain 1946–2009 [PDF]

open access: yesAccident Analysis & Prevention, 2011
This paper investigates fatal accidents and fatalities at level crossings in Great Britain over the 64-year period 1946-2009. The numbers of fatal accidents and fatalities per year fell by about 65% in the first half of that period, but since then have remained more or less constant at about 11 fatal accidents and 12 fatalities per year.
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Modern Urban Transport Infrastructure Solutions to Improve the Safety of Children as Pedestrians and Cyclists

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2021
This article presents the issues and needs for modern solutions in building urban infrastructure, based on the smart city idea to improve the living standards of residents.
Maria Cieśla
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Survey-based Impact of Influencing Parameters on Level Crossings Safety

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2016
Level crossing (LC) accidents are a significant safety challenge worldwide and for that reason they have been subject of numerous research activities. Joint conclusion is that human behaviour is the main cause of accidents. This study examines how and to
Martin Starčević   +2 more
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Analysis of electric bicycle-related traffic injury in Songjiang District of Shanghai

open access: yesShanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveTo explore the status and influencing factors of electric bicycle (e-bike)-related traffic injury in Songjiang District of Shanghai, and to provide reference for prevention and control of the injury.MethodsA self-designed questionnaire was used ...
CHEN Lei   +3 more
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Evaluation of effect of various collision conditions on safety of occupants in the event of level crossing accident

open access: yesNihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2019
The crash safety structure of the railway vehicles is effective as one of the safety measures against the train crews and the passengers in the event of a collision accident. However there is no standard for crash safety in Japan.
Tomohiro OKINO   +4 more
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A risk assessment study on accidents at French level crossings using Bayesian belief networks [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2017
Level crossing (LX) safety continues to be one of the most critical issues for railways despite an ever increasing focus on improving design and practices. In the present paper, a framework of probabilistic risk assessment and improvement decision based on Bayesian belief networks (PRAID-BBN) is proposed. The developed framework aims to analyse various
Ci, Liang, Mohamed, Ghazel
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A Morse complex on manifolds with boundary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Given a compact smooth manifold $M$ with non-empty boundary and a Morse function, a pseudo-gradient Morse-Smale vector field adapted to the boundary allows one to build a Morse complex whose homology is isomorphic to the (absolute or relative to the ...
Laudenbach, Francois
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Evaluation Study of Level Crossings on Direct Crossing Routes (JPL) in Semarang City

open access: yesMedia Komunikasi Teknik Sipil
As a mass transportation system infrastructure, level crossings impact road users, including skidding, road damage, and accidents. Based on data from KAI DAOP 4 Semarang, there were 12 accidents at level crossings in 2023, while in 2024, the number ...
Anton Budiharjo   +2 more
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Vicarious Liability and the Intensity Principle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The present paper provides an economic analysis of vicarious liability that takes information rents and monitoring costs to be borne by the principal explicitly into account.
Schweizer, Urs
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A Continued Humanitarian Crisis at the Border: Undocumented Border Crosser Deaths Recorded by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This report analyzes the numeric trends and demographic characteristics of the deaths of undocumented border crossers in the area covered by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner which is located in the city of Tucson, Arizona.

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