Prevalence of alcohol-impaired drivers based on random breath tests in a roadside survey in Catalonia (Spain)
Published in Accident Analysis & Prevention
An integrated quality function deployment and capital budgeting methodology for occupational safety and health as a syst...
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
In this paper, an integrated methodology for Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and a 0–1 knapsack model is proposed for occupational safety and health as a systems thinking approach. The House of Quality (HoQ) in QFD methodology is a systematic tool to consider the inter-relationships between two factors. In this paper, three HoQs are used to consi...
The influence of age, anthropometrics and range of motion on the morphometry of the synovial folds of the lateral atlant...
Published in European Spine Journal
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of age, anthropometrics and cervical range of motion upon synovial fold volume. Ten healthy female subjects aged 20–40 years were included in the study. Age, height, body mass, dimensions of the head and neck and cervical range of motion of each subject were measured. Magnetic resonance (MR) i...
Mental workload when driving in a simulator: Effects of age and driving complexity
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
Driving errors for older drivers may result from a higher momentary mental workload resulting from complex driving situations, such as intersections. The present study examined if the mental workload of young and older active drivers vary with the difficulty of the driving context. We adopted the probe reaction time (RT) technique to measure the wo...
Collision prediction models using multivariate Poisson-lognormal regression
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
This paper advocates the use of multivariate Poisson-lognormal (MVPLN) regression to develop models for collision count data. The MVPLN approach presents an opportunity to incorporate the correlations across collision severity levels and their influence on safety analyses. The paper introduces a new multivariate hazardous location identification te...
Factors influencing worker use of personal protective eyewear
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
Objective To identify and describe the array of factors that influence a workers’ decision to wear personal protective eyewear (PPE) and the barriers that exist in preventing their use. Design, setting and participants A series of focus groups enrolled workers and supervisors primarily from manufacturing, construction, or service/retail industries ...
Drivers’ and cyclists’ experiences of sharing the road: Incidents, attitudes and perceptions of visibility
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
This study explored the beliefs and attitudes of cyclists and drivers regarding cyclist visibility, use of visibility aids and crashes involving cyclists and motorists. Data are presented for 1460 participants (622 drivers and 838 cyclists) and demonstrate that there are high rates of cyclist–vehicle crashes, many of which were reported to be due t...
Impact of traffic congestion on road accidents: A spatial analysis of the M25 motorway in England
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
Traffic congestion and road accidents are two external costs of transport and the reduction of their impacts is often one of the primary objectives for transport policy makers. The relationship between traffic congestion and road accidents however is not apparent and less studied. It is speculated that there may be an inverse relationship between t...
A new method for assessing the risk of accident associated with darkness
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
This paper presents a new method for assessing the risk of accidents associated with darkness. The method estimates the risk of accident associated with darkness in terms of an odds ratio, which is defined as follows: [(number of accidents in darkness in a given hour of the day)/(number of accidents in daylight in the same hour of the day)]/[(Numbe...
Risk and type of crash among young drivers by rurality of residence: Findings from the DRIVE Study
Published in Accident Analysis and Prevention
Background Most previous literature on urban/rural differences in road crashes has a primary focus on severe injuries or deaths, which may be largely explained by variations of medical resources. Little has been reported on police-reported crashes by geographical location, or crash type and severity, especially among young drivers. Methods DRIVE is...
