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Infrastructures, 2023 High quality data on road crashes, road design characteristics, and traffic are typically required to predict crash frequency. Surrogate Safety Measures (SSMs) are an alternative category of indicators that can be used in road safety analyses in order to
Dimitrios Nikolaou +8 more
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BMJ, 2004 Health professionals have an important role in implementing measures to reduce deaths and injuries on the roads As many as 50 million people each year may be injured in road traffic crashes globally—a total representing the combined populations of Beijing, Delhi, London, Paris, and New York.1 Without increased safety effort to match the growing ...
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Comparative Evaluation of Road Safety Level and Geometric Design Consistency [PDF]
Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2023 This paper investigates road safety levels and geometric design consistency in a road network in Greece concerning road alignment characteristics. Published literature has proved that road accidents and road safety, in general, are directly connected to ...
Antonios Panas +2 more
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Injury Prevention, 2010 Background Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Postcrash management can play a significant role in minimising crash consequences and saving lives. Iran has one of the highest mortalities from road traffic injuries in the world.
D K Zavareh +6 more
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CAUSES ANALYSIS OF SERIOUS ROAD ACCIDENTS IN ROMANIA [PDF]
Annals of the University of Petroşani. Mechanical Engineering, 2023 Improving road safety is a priority at both international and national level, and reducing deaths and injuries in road accidents has been set as a goal by both the United Nations and the European Union.
Sorin Mihăilescu
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Heliyon, 2022 Objective: Road traffic accidents have been reported to contribute a greater proportion of deaths. Motorcyclists are among the high-risk group within road users to succumb to road traffic accidents.
Jackson Silvano Nzuchi +2 more
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Tools for road infrastructure safety management in poland
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 Road safety can be improved by implementing principles of road safety infrastructure management (RIS) on the network of European roads as adopted in the Directive.
Kustra Wojciech, Michalski Lech
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Road Traffic Safety Development Trends in Latvia
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2021 The main focus of this article is on the road traffic safety development trends in Latvia. Soon after the regain of independence at the beginning of the 1990s, road traffic safety characteristics in Latvia were the worst in the Latvian history.
Juris Kreicbergs +4 more
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Technology and Culture, 2015 Where are they going, the couple on the motorbike that adorns this issue’s cover? Somewhere exciting, no doubt, and at great speed, with the wind billowing through the man’s scarf and the woman’s hair. They are young and free, making the most of 1960s Britain, about to roar past the viewer and off into the distance.
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