Analyzing Accident Injury Severity via an Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Model by Shubo Wu, Quan Yuan, Zhongwei Yan, Qing Xu

“…Vehicle to vulnerable road user (VRU) crashes occupy a large proportion of traffic crashes in China, and crash injury severity analysis can support traffic managers to understand the implicit rules behind the crashes. …”
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Economic Evaluation of a Novel Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in US Motor Vehicle Drivers by Jacie T. Cooper, John E. Schneider, Jim Potenziano, David S. Fam

“…Study outcomes suggest a DXR crash rate similar to that of a driver without ADHD, while patients treated with the current standard of care (SOC) have a 52% higher crash risk than non-ADHD drivers. …”
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Developing Roadway Safety Models for Winter Weather Conditions Using a Feature Selection Algorithm by Bryce Hallmark, Jing Dong

“…To assess the safety implications of winter weather, maintenance operations, and traffic operations, various crash frequency models have been developed. In this study, several datasets, including for weather, snowplow operations, and traffic information, were combined to develop a robust crash frequency model for winter weather conditions. …”
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Developing a Clustering-Based Empirical Bayes Analysis Method for Hotspot Identification by Yajie Zou, Xinzhi Zhong, John Ash, Ziqiang Zeng, Yinhai Wang, Yanxi Hao, Yichuan Peng

“…Typical methods for ranking sites are often rooted in using the Empirical Bayes (EB) method to estimate safety from both observed crash records and predicted crash frequency based on similar sites. …”
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In Situ Measurement of Seeking Speed and Seeking Induced Head-Disk Interface Instability in Hard Disk Drives by Yu Wang, Xiongfei Wei, Yanyang Zi, Kwok-Leung Tsui

“…This paper investigated the instability of head-disk interface caused by the voice coil motor (VCM) end crashing the crash stop during the seeking of magnetic head. …”
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Enhancing Freeway Safety through Intervening in Traffic Flow Dynamics Based on Variable Speed Limit Control by Jinming You, Shouen Fang, Lanfang Zhang, John Taplin, Jingqiu Guo

“…We first conducted an empirical analysis on real-time crash risk estimation using a binary logistic regression model. …”
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Safety Evaluation for Highway Geometric Design Based on Spatial Path Properties by Lu Wang

“…After manipulating the curvature and torsion of the spatial curve algebraically, the correlation between geometric design variables and crash rate was ultimately established. A few cases involving geometric design data and crash facts were utilized for verification. …”
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Determination of Effective Thoracic Mass by Jeffrey H. Marcus

“…Effective thoracic mass is an important parameter in specifying mathematical and mechanical models (such as crash dummies) of humans exposed to impact conditions. …”
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Drivers’ Risk Perception and Risky Driving Behavior under Low Illumination Conditions: Modified Driver Behavior Questionnaire (DBQ) and Driver Skill Inventory (DSI) by Jing Liu, Cheng Wang, Zhipeng Liu, Zhongxiang Feng, N. N. Sze

“…Most road crashes are caused by human factors. Risky behaviors and lack of driving skills are two human factors that contribute to crashes. …”
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METODE PENINGKATAN KETAHANAN RETAK RESIN POLYESTER DENGAN PENAMBAHAN PROSENTASE VINYL ESTER by Nusyirwan Nusyirwan, Yul Hizhar, Adam Malik

“…In previous studies, hybrid crash boxes have been developed because it show better energy absorption characteristics. …”
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SOCIAL AND ERGONOMIC EVALUATION OF MOTORCYCLE PROTECTIVE ISOLATION SHIELD FOR REDUCING COMMUNITY SPREAD OF COVID-19 by OLUKAYODE O. OYESIKU, OLASUNKANMI O. AKINYEMI, BASHIR O. ODUFUWA, BABATUNDE O. ADETIFA

“…The probability of occurrence of fatal crash, major crash and minor crash of motorcycle accident was 36.3%, 35.3% and 28.4%, respectively. …”
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Effectiveness of syndecan-1 as an adjunct diagnostic marker in small bowel injury: a report of two cases by Hideshi Okada, Keiko Suzuki, Fuminori Yamaji, Tetsuya Fukuta, Masahiro Ichihashi, Yosuke Mizuno, Takahito Miyake, Norihide Kanda

“…Here, we describe two cases of small bowel injury due to traffic motor vehicle crash trauma.Case presentation The patients, one in their 40s and one teenaged, were transported to our hospital after a traffic motor vehicle crash. …”
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The Global Burden of Road Injury: Its Relevance to the Emergency Physician by Sharon Chekijian, Melinda Paul, Vanessa P. Kohl, David M. Walker, Anthony J. Tomassoni, David C. Cone, Federico E. Vaca

“…Background. Road traffic crash fatalities in the United States are at the lowest level since 1950. …”
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Evaluation of Roundabout Safety Performance through Surrogate Safety Measures from Microsimulation by Orazio Giuffrè, Anna Granà, Maria Luisa Tumminello, Tullio Giuffrè, Salvatore Trubia, Antonino Sferlazza, Marko Rencelj

“…Based on calibration of the microsimulation models, a crash prediction model from simulated peak hour conflicts for a sample of Slovenian roundabouts was developed. …”
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Modeling Crossing Conflicts at Unsignalized T-Intersections under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions by Jaydip Goyani, Ninad Gore, Shriniwas Arkatkar

“…The safety of unsignalized intersections is evaluated by correlating the number of crashes with traffic volume and intersection geometry. …”
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A Data-Based Approach for Modeling and Analysis of Vehicle Collision by LPV-ARMAX Models by Qiugang Lu, Hamid Reza Karimi, Kjell Gunnar Robbersmyr

“…Vehicle crash test is considered to be the most direct and common approach to assess the vehicle crashworthiness. …”
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RESEARCH ON THE ENERGY ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPANSION TUBE ENERGY ABSORBING ELEMENTS FOR RAIL VEHICLES by HE ShiZhong, HUANG Ke

“…The ratio of the smooth crash force of the energy absorbing element under the drop hammer impact to the smooth crash force of the quasi-static compression is about 0.96～0.98; when the outer diameter of the cone is constant, the force of the energy absorbing element is substantially linear with the wall thickness of the expansion tube; when the wall thickness of the expansion tube is constant, the force of the energy absorbing element is approximately linear with the outer diameter of the cone, and with the outer diameter of the the cone increases, the amount of increase in the force tends to decrease. …”
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Data-driven high friction surface treatment applications for roadway safety by Austin Obenauf, Mike Vaughn, Ryland Potter, Isaac Briskin

“…The project utilized a mixture of pavement friction data, pavement resurfacing lists, and specific crash data. The sites are being reviewed to show the benefits through a before and after crash analysis and pavement condition over time based on traffic volumes, weather, and other factors. …”
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RESEARCH ON THE ANTI-IMPACT CHARACTERISTIC AT DIFFERENT LOCATION BETWEEN THE MOVING SHIP AND MONOPILE OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES by ZHOU HongJie, LI Chun, HAO WenXing, YU Wan

“…The explicit dynamic theory and non-linear finite element method are used to simulate the 5 000 t impact of the wind turbine at different locations of the dynamic response process, through the support structure of the stress and crash depth, tower top response analysis of wind turbine structure crash performance. …”
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An Effective Node-To-Edge Interdependent Network and Vulnerability Analysis for Digital Coupled Power Grids by Yifan Li, Bo Wang, Hongxia Wang, Fuqi Ma, Hengrui Ma, Jiaxin Zhang, Yingchen Zhang, Mohamed A. Mohamed

“…The results showed that in the order of the indexes proposed in this paper, attacking surviving power nodes and cyber nodes results in a network crash rate of 25.0% and 66.7% faster than that in the order of “betweenness” and that attacking surviving cyber nodes results in a network crash rate of 89.4% faster than that in the order of “degree.” …”
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