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Prevalence of fatality and associated factors of road traffic accidents among victims reported to Burayu town police stations, between 2010 and 2015, Ethiopia

open access: yesJournal of Transport and Health, 2018
Background Fatalities of road traffic accidents have become a huge global public health and development problem killing nearly 1.3 million people and disabling between 20–50 million people annually; and lost 518 billion US $ globally.
Girma Hordofa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From armed roots to airline routes in South America: A dual imprinting perspective

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Reserch Summary We propose that founding partner relationships can leave distinct imprints on organizations that differ in durability and in how they respond to subsequent changes involving the founding partner. Examining South American airlines founded between 1919 and 1984, we argue and find that such relationships simultaneously create an ...
Kunyuan Qiao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the impact of changing the criteria for detecting places (sites) of concentration of traffic accidents on road safety

open access: yesДороги і мости
Introduction. Ensuring road safety is one of the foremost tasks in any country with vehicular traffic. Despite significant efforts made to improve road safety in Ukraine and globally, the issue of traffic accidents is still relevant. Problem statement.
Bohdan Stasiuk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traffic Safety at Night: An Analysis of Recent Trends in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

open access: yesJournal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences, 1991
Nighttime traffic accidents post a more serious problem than daytime accidents, especially when fatal and injurious road accidents and traffic volumes during the two periods are compared.
Parviz Amir Koushki
doaj   +1 more source

Finite element method for reconstruction of road traffic accidents

open access: yes, 2018
The article examines the accident rate statistics on the roads of the Russian Federation, analysis of which provides the basis for posing the issue of improving the quality of expert study of road traffic accidents.
S. Evtiukov, E. Golov, Grigory Ginzburg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of half‐joint failures on RC girder bridges: A robustness quantification study

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The robustness of bridge structures is critical to ensuring safety and service continuity, particularly in aging infrastructure exposed to degradation and unexpected loads. Reinforced concrete (RC) half‐joint bridges—widely built in Italy between the 1950s and 1970s—exhibit specific vulnerabilities due to inspection challenges, durability ...
Paolo Martinelli, Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Review of current practices in recording road traffic incident data: with specific reference to spatial analysis and road policing policy

open access: yes, 2003
Road safety involves three major components: the road system, the human factor and the vehicle element. These three elements are inter-linked through geo-referenced traffic events and provide the basis for road safety analyses and attempts to reduce ...
Anderson, Tessa
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Prevalence and correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder among survivors of road traffic accidents in Ethiopia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2018
BackgroundPost-traumatic stress disorder is the most common mental disorders occurring among survivors of road traffic accident. However, research into post-traumatic stress disorder and correlates in low and middle-income countries is limited.
Kalkidan Yohannes   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Looking for Trouble: Pre‐Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
We compare two types of situations involving monitoring of car driving: a driving instructor overseeing a trainee driver and a safety driver overseeing the performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) software. Our focus is on instances of monitoring that precede (1) interventions that are aborted before impacting the driving and (2) actual interventions on ...
Mathias Broth   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Differences of Single-Vehicle and Multivehicle Accident Probability Using Mixed Logit Model

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation, 2018
Road traffic accidents are believed to be associated with not only road geometric feature and traffic characteristic, but also weather condition. To address these safety issues, it is of paramount importance to understand how these factors affect the ...
Bowen Dong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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