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Traffic accidents impart both economic and social costs upon communities around the world, hence the desire for accident rates to be reduced. For this reduction to occur, the factors influencing the occurrence of accidents must be understood. The rol...

To achieve greater sustainability of the traffic system, the trend of traffic accidents in road traffic was analysed. Injuries from traffic accidents are among the leading factors in the suffering of people around the world. Injuries from road traffi...

In Japan, where the birthrate continues to decline, various initiatives are underway to promote traffic safety for children. Although these efforts have helped reduce the number of traffic accidents involving children, an examination of the circumsta...

In many countries, 40–60% of the traffic accidents occur at junctions, making the reduction of junction accidents paramount to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals. In Japan, the road safety guidelines specify the proximity between juncti...

The interaction among social economy, geography, and environment leads to the occurrence of traffic accidents, which shows the relationship between time and space. Therefore, it is necessary to study the temporal and spatial correlation and provide a...

This paper introduces and illustrates an approach to automatically detecting and selecting “critical” road segments, intended for application in circumstances of limited human or technical resources for traffic monitoring and management....

Traffic accidents represent a major problem worldwide. Public and private entities launch communication campaigns in order to educate the population about this problem. The aim of this study is to analyze the evolution of the presence of road safety...

Road traffic accidents are a significant public health issue, accounting for almost 1.3 million deaths worldwide annually, with millions more experiencing non-fatal injuries. A variety of subjective and objective factors contribute to the occurrence...

Young drivers are generally associated with risky driving behaviors that can lead to crash involvement. Many self-report measurement scales are used to assess such risky behaviors. This study is aimed to understand the risky driving behaviors of youn...

The number of motor vehicles on the road is constantly increasing, leading to a rise in the number of traffic accidents. Accurately identifying the factors contributing to these accidents is a crucial topic in the field of traffic accident research....

In Hungary, around 14,000 to 15,000 traffic accidents result in personal injuries on public roads annually. Half of the individuals involved in fatal collisions are considered vulnerable pedestrians or cyclists. Our retrospective cross-sectional stud...

The population of children in Japan has steadily declined, and the percentage of the population aged 14 years or younger is smaller than in other countries. Therefore, it is important to protect children by preventing their involvement in traffic acc...

According to worldwide statistics, traffic accidents are the cause of a high percentage of violent deaths. The time taken to send the medical response to the accident site is largely affected by the human factor and correlates with survival probabili...

This paper aims to explore the spatiotemporal pattern of traffic accidents using five years of data between 2015 and 2019 for the Irbid Governorate, Jordan. The spatial pattern of traffic-accident hotspots and their temporal evolution were identified...

Many small-spacing interchanges (SSI) appear when the density of the expressway interchanges increases. However, the characteristics of traffic accidents in SSI have not been explained clearly. Therefore, this paper systematically takes the G3001 exp...

One of the applications of neural networks is to predict the fault section results of traffic utilizing the combined model estimation of the fault section and self-learning models with smart sensors. The prediction of the fault section can autonomous...

With declining physical functions, elderly pedestrians face a significantly higher risk of severe injuries and fatalities in traffic accidents. This study investigates the factors influencing injury severity among elderly pedestrians using traffic ac...

Climate change and the extreme weather have a negative impact on road traffic safety, resulting in severe road traffic accidents. In this study, a negative binomial model and a log-change model are proposed to analyse the impact of various factors on...

Understanding the temporal and spatial dynamics of traffic accidents are a key determinant in their mitigation. This article leverages big data and a Poisson model with fixed effects to understand the causality of traffic congestion on road accidents...

In this paper, a deep learning model using a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) was developed and employed to predict the injury severity of traffic accidents based on 1130 accident records that have occurred on the North-South Expressway (NSE), Malaysia...

Traffic accidents are a major concern worldwide, since they have a significant impact on people’s safety, health, and well-being, and thus, they constitute an important field of research on the use of state-of-the-art techniques and algorithms...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the complex coupling relationships among accident factors contributing to the automobile and two-wheeler traffic accidents by establishing the Bayesian network (BN) model of the severity of traffic accidents, s...

The rising frequency of heavy truck accidents in China poses a significant public safety risk, endangering lives and property. However, current research based on data from heavy truck accidents in China remains limited, making it challenging to suppo...

Trauma-related injuries in traffic-accident victims can be quite serious. Evaluating the factors contributing to traffic accidents is critical for the effective design of programs aimed at reducing traffic accidents. Therefore, this study identified...

To objectively evaluate the road traffic safety levels across different provinces in China, this study investigated the spatiotemporal heterogeneity characteristics of macro factors influencing road traffic accidents. Panel data from 31 provinces in...

In order to explore the law of major and extra serious traffic accidents on expressways in China, a total of 802 cases of major and extra serious traffic accidents on expressways in the past 10 years were collected, and statistical analysis was condu...

Traffic accident detection is an important strategy governments can use to implement policies intended to reduce accidents. They usually use techniques such as image processing, RFID devices, among others. Social network mining has emerged as a low-c...

Traffic accidents, which continue to increase from year to year in Turkey and in the world, have become a huge problem that can result in serious traumas, injuries, and deaths, as well as their material and moral consequences. Many studies have been...

The number of traffic accidents in a region rises as the vehicle–km value in traffic increases. Furthermore, since automobiles make up the highest proportion of vehicles in traffic, they represent the greatest weight in traffic accidents. This...

In recent years, the proportion of rural road fatalities in the country is gradually increasing, among which the traffic safety problems are particularly prominent in the town-rural area and the town-center area. Based on the relevant accident data i...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of stratification heterogeneity in traffic accidents in Shenzhen, what factors influence the casualties, and the interaction of those factors. Geographical detection methods are used for the a...

Background: By 2025, road traffic injuries are projected to rank third in the global burden of disease, posing a significant challenge that affects health, social well-being, and economic aspects. According to data from the Romanian Police National S...

Expressway traffic accidents often result in severe congestion, with their unpredictable nature complicating timely and effective response measures. This paper presents a comprehensive method for accurately estimating and analyzing the spatiotemporal...

One of the factors that threaten traffic safety and cause various traffic problems is distracted drivers. Various studies have been carried out to ensure traffic safety and, accordingly, to reduce traffic accidents. This study aims to determine drive...

For sustainable transportation systems, modeling road traffic accidents is essential in order to formulate measures to reduce their harmful impacts on society. This study investigated the outcomes of using different datasets in traffic accident model...

Road traffic accidents are associated with different factors, such as nonsignalised road networks, inexperienced drivers, a lack of communication skills, distraction, and the visual or cognitive impairment of road users, which have led to this increa...

As a critical configuration of interchanges, the weaving section is inclined to be involved in more traffic accidents, which may bring about severe casualties. To identify the factors associated with traffic accidents at the weaving section, we emplo...

Traffic accidents involving children and adolescents present complex challenges from both the medico-legal and orthopedic standpoints. Despite the implementation of road traffic safety laws, pediatric road traffic injuries continue to be a significan...

The records of 24,797 traffic accidents (9039 involving fatalities or severe injury) during rainy conditions from 2007 to 2017 in Seoul, South Korea, were used to analyze the spatial distribution of the traffic accidents and rainfall events based on...

China has a large vehicle base, uneven road conditions, and the highest rate of traffic accidents in the world. Particularly on the long downhill sections of expressway tunnels in mountainous areas with harsh geographical conditions, traffic accident...

Globally, and specifically in Poland and Lithuania, the incidence of road accidents has been on a decline over the years. The overall figures remain significantly high. Thus, it is imperative to take substantial measures to further decrease these sta...

Accident and fatality rates of traffic accidents worldwide are steadily increasing every year; thus, considerable effort has been made to prevent traffic accidents and prepare countermeasures. This study aims to identify the major factors and types t...

Road traffic fatalities remain a significant global issue, despite a gradual decline in recent years. Although the number of accidents has decreased—partly due to reduced mobility during the pandemic—the figures remain alarmingly high. To...

Beginning in April 2020, social distancing measures were implemented to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. We assessed whether traffic accident rates had decreased from April 2020 to December 2021 as compared with previous years. The analysis i...

Background: Deaths due to traffic accidents are preventable and the access to health care is an important determinant of traffic accident case fatality. This study aimed to assess the relation between mortality due to traffic accidents and health car...

Official statistics demonstrate the role of traffic accidents in the increasing number of fatalities, especially in emerging countries. In recent decades, the rate of deaths and injuries caused by traffic accidents in Iran, a rapidly growing economy...

The World Health Organization has recognized road traffic accidents as a global crisis, particularly in urban environments. Despite extensive research endeavors, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how various factors interact to influenc...

The main aim of the present study was to investigate the spatiotemporal trends of urban traffic accident hotspots during the COVID-19 pandemic. The severity index was used to determine high-risk areas, and the kernel density estimation method was use...

Despite preventive measures and initiatives, road traffic accidents are on the rise in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to investigate the emergency medical service unit’s response to RTA by socio-demographic and accident-related v...

At present, the total length of accident blackspot accounts for 0.25% of the total length of the road network, while the total number of accidents that occurred at accident black spots accounts for 25% of the total number of accidents on the road net...