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UAE traffic accidents analysis and cause investigation over the past decade
Traffic accidents are a critical safety issue in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), especially in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The economic prosperity over the past few decades associated with excessive growth in population, major highway [...]
Potential of ITS to improve safety and Mobility of VRUs
ITS Applications have in recent years assisted in reducing the number of fatalities in Europe. However, Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) have not benefited as much as vehicle users. The EU-sponsored VRUITS project assesses the safety and mobility [...]
The theory of reduction of impact speeds
An equation is given for the dependence of impact speed on travelling speed, deceleration, distance, and reaction time. the usefulness is demonstrated in the context of Autonomous emergency Braking (AeB). A model of AeB performance is proposed, [...]
Tackling Accident Blackspots Head On
In South Australia, a blackspot is considered to be somewhere with at least three casualty crashes reported in five years; similar criteria are used in other developed jurisdictions. Such a small number of crashes is inherently highly variable, [...]
Using Microsimulation To Evaluate Traffic Safety
As the use of traffic models in a planning context steadily grows, the need has arisen to be able to evaluate traffic safety based on microsimulations, thus allowing for an ex-ante evaluation of the effects of certain traffic management measures [...]
A framework for evaluating safer routes to schools
Do small scale engineering measures make a real difference to parent’s perceptions of safety on the school run? This paper reports on how Brighton and Hove Council has developed an evaluation framework for their Safer Routes to School programme [...]
Accidents at blackspots: estimating the effectiveness of remedial treatment, with special reference to the 'regression-to-mean' effect
This paper looks at the estimation of the effectiveness of remidial treatment for accident blackspots with special consideration of the 'regression to mean' effect [...]
Speed cameras - their true effect on driver behavior
This paper, based on MSc project which measured the speeds of large samples of drivers around four contrasting camera sites. The aim was to determine the 'sphere of influence' of the camera sites [...]
Applying systems methodology to the road safety challenge
In 1999, the estimation of fatalities in road crashes worldwide was 800,000 per year, forecast to grow to between 1.1 and 1.2 million in 2010 and to between 1.3 and 1.4 million by the year 2020 (Silcock, 2003). Specific time-proven strategies [...]
Subjective and objective evaluation of risk on roadway curves
This paper considers the level of risk, via a subjective and objective evaluation, of risk on roadway curves. It considers drivers' own perception of risk from a study at a section of a road in Athens, Greece [...]

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