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Accident analysis and prevention

Journal Volume: 45
Journal Issue:
Journal Year: 2012
Articles in SafetyLit: 97

A Bayesian network based framework for real-time crash prediction on the basic freeway segments of urban expressways

A driving simulator study of driver performance on deceleration lanes

A field evaluation of real-life motor vehicle accidents: Presence of unrestrained objects and their association with distribution and severity of patient injuries

A holistic approach for assessing traffic safety in the United Arab Emirates

A multivariate tobit analysis of highway accident-injury-severity rates

A prospective cohort study on minor accidents involving commuter cyclists in Belgium

A study of factors affecting highway accident rates using the random-parameters tobit model

Accidents and close call situations connected to the use of mobile phones

Age differences in simulated driving performance: Compensatory processes

Aggregate nonparametric safety analysis of traffic zones

Analysis of crash severities using nested logit model-Accounting for the underreporting of crashes

Analytic choices in road safety evaluation: Exploring second-best approaches

Another look at safety climate and safety behavior: Deepening the cognitive and social mediator mechanisms

Brake lamp detection in complex and dynamic environments: Recognizing limitations of visual attention and perception

Braking from different speeds: Judgments of collision speed if a car does not stop in time

Cognitive screening of older drivers does not produce safety benefits

Comparison of risk factors for cervical spine, head, serious, and fatal injury in rollover crashes

Comprehensibility of traffic signs among urban drivers in Turkey

Controlling factors of the parental safety perception on children's travel mode choice

Crashes and crash-surrogate events: Exploratory modeling with naturalistic driving data

Cyclist safety on bicycle boulevards and parallel arterial routes in Berkeley, California

Decision-making capacities and affective reward anticipation in DWI recidivists compared to non-offenders: A preliminary study

Differentiating risky and aggressive driving: Further support of the internal validity of the Dula Dangerous Driving Index

Discrepancies between knowledge and practice of childhood motor vehicle occupant safety in Nova Scotia-A population-based study

Distracted driving in elderly and middle-aged drivers

Distraction and pedestrian safety: How talking on the phone, texting, and listening to music impact crossing the street

Do deterrence and social-control theories predict driving after drinking 15 years after a DWI conviction?

Does contracting with owner operators lead to worse safety outcomes for US motor carriers? Evidence from the Motor Carrier Management Information System

Does gender moderate the relationship between driver aggression and its risk factors?

Drivers' comprehension of traffic information on graphical route information panels

Driving styles and their associations with personality and motivation

Early driving experience and influence on risk perception in young rural people

Effectiveness of traffic light vs. boom barrier controls at road-rail level crossings: A simulator study

Electroencephalogram and electrocardiograph assessment of mental fatigue in a driving simulator

Emotional abilities as predictors of risky driving behavior among a cohort of middle aged drivers

Errors in judging the approach rate of motorcycles in nighttime conditions and the effect of an improved lighting configuration

Evaluation of a program to enhance young drivers' safety in Israel

Examination of factors determining fault in two-vehicle motorcycle crashes

Factors associated with hit-and-run pedestrian fatalities and driver identification

Fatal crash involvement of unlicensed young drivers: County level differences according to material deprivation and urbanicity in the United States

Fatal intersection crashes in Norway: Patterns in contributing factors and data collection challenges

Fuzzy approach for reducing subjectivity in estimating occupational accident severity

Fuzzy-logic-based network for complex systems risk assessment: Application to ship performance analysis

How fleeting emotions affect hazard perception and steering while driving: The impact of image arousal and valence

Individual and area socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific unintentional injury mortality: 11-Year follow-up study of 2.7 million Canadians

Influence of standing or seated pelvis on dummy responses in rear impacts

Investigation of a supplementary tool to assist in the prioritization of emphasis areas in North American strategic highway safety plans

Job Demands-Control-Support model and employee safety performance

Macroscopic spatial analysis of pedestrian and bicycle crashes

Main characteristics of train-pedestrian fatalities on Finnish railroads

Mapping commuter cycling risk in urban areas

Measuring safety treatment effects using full Bayes non-linear safety performance intervention functions

Modeling the impact of spatial relationships on horizontal curve safety

Occupational driver safety: Conceptualising a leadership-based intervention to improve safe driving performance

Overly cautious and dangerous: An empirical evidence of the older driver stereotypes

Pedestrian head translation, rotation and impact velocity: The influence of vehicle speed, pedestrian speed and pedestrian gait

Planning sample sizes for before-after accident comparisons

Prevalence of motor vehicle crashes involving drowsy drivers, United States, 1999-2008

Psychosocial safety climate moderates the job demand-resource interaction in predicting workgroup distress

Reliability of simulator driving tool for evaluation of sleepiness, fatigue and driving performance

Road traffic injury incidence and crash characteristics in Dar es Salaam: A population based study

Safety climate in OHSAS 18001-certified organisations: Antecedents and consequences of safety behaviour

Safety effects of unsignalized superstreets in North Carolina

Safety evaluation of right-turn smart channels using automated traffic conflict analysis

Safety management by walking around (SMBWA): A safety intervention program based on both peer and manager participation

Short-term outcomes of a motivation-enhancing approach to DUI intervention

Some hazards are more attractive than others: Drivers of varying experience respond differently to different types of hazard

Strategies for dealing with resistance to recommendations from accident investigations

Substance use and social, health and safety-related factors among fatally injured drivers

Systematic review and quality assessment of economic evaluation studies of injury prevention

Taking a look behind the wheel: An investigation into the personality predictors of aggressive driving

The acute effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and methamphetamine on driving: A simulator study

The beliefs which motivate young male and female drivers to speed: A comparison of low and high intenders

The characteristics of young pre-licensed drivers: Evidence from the New Zealand Drivers Study

The development of railway safety in Finland

The effect of age, gender and attitudes on self-regulation in driving

The effect of sanctions and police enforcement on drivers' choice of speed

The effectiveness of alcohol control policies on alcohol-related traffic fatalities in the United States

The effects of driver identity on driving safety in a retrospective feedback system

The effects of driving experience on responses to a static hazard perception test

The effects of non-evaluative feedback on drivers' self-evaluation and performance

The effects of on-street parking and road environment visual complexity on travel speed and reaction time

The effects of positive emotion priming on self-reported reckless driving

The effects of studded tires on fatal crashes with passenger cars and the benefits of electronic stability control (ESC) in Swedish winter driving

The impact of compulsory cycle helmet legislation on cyclist head injuries in New South Wales, Australia: A rejoinder

The impact of perceptual treatments on driver's behavior: From driving simulator studies to field tests-First results

The influence of car registration year on driver casualty rates in Great Britain

The influence of conformity and group identity on drink walking intentions: Comparing intentions to drink walk across risky pedestrian crossing scenarios

The negative binomial-Lindley generalized linear model: Characteristics and application using crash data

The prevalence and nature of stopped on-the-road driving tests and the relationship with objective performance impairment

The range of replications technique for assessing the external validity of road safety evaluation studies

The relative risk of nearside accidents is high for the youngest and oldest pedestrians

The role of cognitive and visual abilities as predictors in the Multifactorial Model of Driving Safety

Use of crash surrogates and exceedance statistics to estimate road safety

Using reflective clothing to enhance the conspicuity of bicyclists at night

Using support vector machine models for crash injury severity analysis

What does the driver look at? The influence of intersection characteristics on attention allocation and driving behavior