Search results for "Road Accidents"

PV-Alert: A fog-based architecture for safeguarding vulnerable road users

2017

International audience; High volumes of pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users (VRUs) have much higher casualty rates per mile; not surprising given their lack of protection from an accident. In order to alleviate the problem, sensing capabilities of smartphones can be used to detect, warn and safeguard these road users. In this research we propose an infrastructure-less fog-based architecture named PV-Alert (Pedestrian-Vehicle Alert) where fog nodes process delay sensitive data obtained from smartphones for alerting pedestrians and drivers before sending the data to the cloud for further analysis. Fog computing is considered in developing the architecture since it is an emer…

A DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO FOSTER MUNICIPAL POLICE STRATEGIES IN PALERMO TO CONTAIN SPEEDING AND DRUNK DRIVING

Road related fatalities kill 1,25 million people every year around the world and rank as the ninth cause of death according to some recent statistics by the WHO. Actions to reduce this phenomenon have been taken, at different institutional levels, with promising results, particularly in western societies, where the magnitude of such occurrences has been almost halved in the last decade. Nevertheless the level of attention, with regard to road safety, will have to be kept high if a further reduction of this phenomenon is to be reached. Traditional road safety-related approaches mainly focus on prevention through the constant improvement of vehicles’ safety devices and the rationalization of …

The role of heavy vehicles in road safety: Technical improvements and training of professional drivers in EU activities

2011

This paper proposes an analysis of initiatives and measures that the EU has developed, both in terms of research and normative, in order to improve the safety of freight vehicles. The actions undertaken by the EU under the program for road safety, with particular attention to the road freight sector, the more representative, are the following: - Improving the visibility of heavy duty vehicles (HDV), - The elimination of points with poor visibility from the HDV, - Evaluation of measures to reduce accidents related to tires condition, - The standardization and improvement of initial and continuing training of professional drivers. The classification of defects which are considered to have ser…

Bezpieczeństwo komunikacyjne uczniów w drodze do/ze szkoły

2016

Bezpieczeństwo Komunikacyjne to zagadnienie, które dotyczy bezpośrednio wszystkich ludzi: kierowców, pieszych, rowerzystów, motocyklistów. Artykuł ma na celu przedstawienie podstawowych zagadnień dotyczących bezpieczeństwa komunikacyjnego oraz ukazanie poziomu bezpieczeństwa w drodze do szkoły uczniów w mieście Opole oraz poziomu wiedzy uczniów na temat bezpieczeństwa komunikacyjnego. Szczegółowo przeanalizowano i zwrócono uwagę na sposoby pokonywania przez uczniów drogi do/ze szkoły, poczucie bezpieczeństwa uczniów w ich opinii, oraz wiedzę uczniów na temat ruchu drogowego.