Driver Age, Car Mass and Accident Exposure
Author : Leonard Evans
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Automobile drivers
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Author : Leonard Evans
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Automobile drivers
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Author : Leonard Evans
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Automobile drivers
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This work was performed to investigate how the likelihood of a two-car crash depends on the driver age and car mass for each of the two involved cars, and also to examine the special case of cars of similar mass crashing into each other. This work uses data on 108 044 cars involved in police reported two-car crashes occurring in New York State in 1971 and 1972. The data reflect the mix of cars on the roads at that time, so that most of the involved cars were made in the 1960's. The data were fitted to a four variable model, the four variables being the driver age (in three categories) and car mass (in five categories) for each of the two involved cars. Car registrations are used to estimate exposure. The special case of crashes between cars of similar mass is considered because of prior results on driver injuries in such crashes. The model, which reproduces well the main effects in the data, indicates that each driver combination may be considered to have a propensity to be involved in two-car crashes that depends on driver age and car mass.
Author : Leonard Evans
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Automobiles
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Author : Stanley H Backaitis
Publisher : SAE International
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0768095980
For years, reducing the number of traffic-related fatalities and injuries has been a major problem throughout the world. Today, it has gained much more momentum in view of rapidly increasing SUV, van, and light-truck populations relative to the number of passenger cars, and due to significant improvements in technologies that facilitate a better understanding of the interaction dynamics among widely differing size vehicles. Unless disparities in crashworthiness among vehicles of different masses, sizes, and structural characteristics in mixed crash environments are successfully taken into account, the challenge toward improved vehicle safety will continue. This two-part compendium provides the most comprehensive information available on the entire spectrum of vehicle crash compatibility. The first part presents oral comments captured from the 2003 SAE World Congress panel discussion on compatibility. The panel of leading experts representing industry, academia, and government provides a rough framework and a broad range of views on current and emerging developments in compatibility research. The second part of this compendium features 44 best technical papers from SAE International and the International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, published from the early 1970s through 2004. Readers will get a feel for the direction passenger car and heavy-vehicle manufacturers, research institutions, infrastructure suppliers, insurers, and governments are taking to reduce the number of traffic fatalities and injuries.
Author : Leonard Evans
Publisher : Science Serving Society
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780442001636
Examines deaths, injuries, and property damage from traffic crashes. Evans (research scientist, General Motors Research Labs, Warren, Michigan) applies the methods of science to illuminate the characteristics of these problems--their origin and nature as well as their severity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : J. Peter Rothe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 100068007X
By the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20 percent of the population in North America, and 28 percent of those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles, and the need for planning and policy development becomes evident. Most standard research on elderly drivers has not gone beyond gathering data on specific situations or characteristics. This book rises beyond simple statistical presentation. It blends sociological insight with statistical detail to produce an absorbing description of the elderly drivers' daily lives, driving styles, experiences with accident and injury, social relationships, and life aspirations. It also describes areas of neglect: imagined and real health problems, driving exposure and traffic violations, accidents, and loss of self-esteem. It presents In-depth accounts of the trauma of loss of license and the Importance of the automobile for sustaining mental, physical, and social well being. The self-Imposed or self-defined rules elderly drivers use to navigate traffic or compensate for physical frailities are described in depth. The Safety of Elderly Drivers Includes penetrating comments from elderly drivers who have been involved in serious accidents, and from random elderly drivers speaking for their generation of drivers. Integrating statistical findings based on Motor Vehicle Department accident data and survey data with comprehensive interviews and discussions with elderly drivers. the book provides an emperically grounded. In-depth view of the elderly driver today. Rothe summarizes theories and models of aging. along with past research on elder[y drivers. projecting what the future may hold If present trends in medicine. housing. politics. migration. and mass transit continue. It closes with a series of recommendations for future traffic planning. This book will be of Interest to policymakers concerned with traffic safety, as well as social scientists and others Interested In gerontological issues.
Author : Leonard Evans
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Automobile drivers
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
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Page : 1688 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2000
Category : United States
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Author : Rune Elvik
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 1137 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1848552505
Contains summaries of the knowledge regarding the effects of 128 road safety measures. This title covers various areas of road safety including: traffic control; vehicle inspection; driver training; publicity campaigns; police enforcement; and, general policy instruments. It also covers topics such as post-accident care, and speed cameras.