scholarly journals Identifying Future Vehicle Safety Priority Areas in Australia for the Light Vehicle Fleet

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Laurie Budd ◽  
Stuart Newstead
Keyword(s):  
Stability Control ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Vehicle Safety ◽  
Crash Data ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
The Future ◽  
Light Vehicle ◽  
Vehicle Fleet ◽  
Safety Priority ◽  
Crash Types

Formulating priorities for future road safety strategies requires supporting analysis to predict what the future crash population will look like and to assess how the countermeasures either already in place or planned will address the crash problems forecast. This analysis aimed to identify future priority action areas for light vehicle safety by identifying crash types that will not be fully addressed in the future by projected improvements in active and passive safety in the Australian light vehicle fleet. The future crash profile was modelled from 2017 to 2030 using crash data from 5 Australian jurisdictions overlayed with available evidence on vehicle safety feature fitment and effectiveness. The methodology can be applied to larger sets of safety technologies when sufficient evidence and supporting crash data become available. Three future vehicle safety priority areas were identified from the analysis: (i) fatal pedestrian crashes, (ii) single vehicle frontal crashes with objects, and (iii) front-to-front vehicle crashes both at intersections and midblocks, and front-to-side impacts at intersections including straight crossing path and right turn across path crash types. These crash types were projected to be the largest contributors to fatalities by 2030. Projections showed that remaining crash types in 2030 will be poorly addressed by current vehicle safety technologies such as autonomous emergency braking, lane departure warning and electronic stability control. Future vehicle safety policy priorities should address these crash types through the development of additional or enhanced vehicle safety technologies and where vehicle safety technology proves inadequate other countermeasures such as road infrastructure treatments and appropriate speed limit setting for high risk environments that address the key crash types remaining in the system.

Mobilising resiliency in times of economic hardship: Emerging themes in migrant worker remittance payments

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-167
Author(s):  
Kevin Garlan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
Mobile Payments ◽  
Payment Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This paper analyses the nexus of the global financial crisis and the remittance markets of Mexico and India, along with introducing new and emerging payment technologies that will help facilitate the growth of remittances worldwide. Overall resiliency is found in most markets but some are impacted differently by economic hardship. With that we also explore the area of emerging payment methods and how they can help nations weather this economic strife. Mobile payments are highlighted as one of the priority areas for the future of transferring monetary funds, and we assess their ability to further facilitate global remittances.

Why should Brazil to implement mandatory fuel economy standards for the light vehicle fleet?

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 1166-1174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conrado Augustus De Melo ◽  
Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi ◽  
Paulo Henrique De Mello Santana
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Economy ◽  
Fuel Economy Standards ◽  
Light Vehicle ◽  
Vehicle Fleet

scholarly journals VEHICLE FLEET MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1287-1291
Author(s):  
John Promise Chiparo ◽  
◽  
Marian Tukuta ◽  
Michael Musanzikwa ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Fleet Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vehicle Fleet ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The purpose of this paper reviews the influence of Vehicle Fleet Management Practices, (VFMP). A systematic review of papers was performed analysing 56 articles from year 2014 to 2021. Vehicle Fleet Management Practices research has garnered interest from both academics and industrialists in both the public and private sector. This is demonstrated by the increasing number of academic papers published in recent years. The article discusses interesting findings, suggests and lays down a number of directions for future research. In addition, limitations of this work are presented. The conclusion of this study provides sufficient evidence on the need for further research addressing the interaction between vehicle fleet management practices and service delivery in public entities.

scholarly journals Safety Impacts of Converting Two-Way Left-Turn Lanes to Raised Medians and Associated Design Concerns

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priyanka Alluri ◽  
Albert Gan ◽  
Kirolos Haleem
Keyword(s):  
Data Availability ◽  
Left Turn ◽  
Arterial Streets ◽  
Crash Data ◽  
Potential Safety ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Crash Types ◽  
Associated Design ◽  
Urban Arterial

Raised medians and two-way left-turn lanes (TWLTLs) are the two most common types of median treatments on arterial streets. This paper aims to conduct a detailed study on the safety impacts of conversion from TWLTLs to raised medians on state roads in Florida. In addition, the study also investigated several potential safety concerns related to raised medians on state roads, including crashes at median openings, vehicles directly hitting the median curb, and median crossover crashes. Based on data availability, 17.51 miles of urban arterial sections in Florida that were converted from TWLTLs to raised medians were analyzed. Police reports of all the crashes before and after median conversion were reviewed to correct miscoded crash types and obtain additional detailed crash information. Overall, a 28.5% reduction in total crash rate was observed after the 10 study locations were converted from TWLTLs to raised medians. The reductions in the proportions of left-turn and right-turn crashes were statistically significant, while the changes in the proportions of other crash types were not statistically significant. Furthermore, the crash data did not show evidence that raised medians are an additional hazard compared with TWLTLs.

scholarly journals Association between Crash Attributes and Drivers’ Crash Involvement: A Study Based on Police-Reported Crash Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (23) ◽  
pp. 9020
Author(s):  
Guofa Li ◽  
Weijian Lai ◽  
Xingda Qu
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Older Drivers ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
Crash Data ◽  
Imbalance Problem ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Crash Types ◽  
Safety Enhancement

Understanding the association between crash attributes and drivers’ crash involvement in different types of crashes can help figure out the causation of crashes. The aim of this study was to examine the involvement in different types of crashes for drivers from different age groups, by using the police-reported crash data from 2014 to 2016 in Shenzhen, China. A synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) together with edited nearest neighbors (ENN) were used to solve the data imbalance problem caused by the lack of crash records of older drivers. Logistic regression was utilized to estimate the probability of a certain type of crashes, and odds ratios that were calculated based on the logistic regression results were used to quantify the association between crash attributes and drivers’ crash involvement in different types of crashes. Results showed that drivers’ involvement patterns in different crash types were affected by different factors, and the involvement patterns differed among the examined age groups. Knowledge generated from the present study could help improve the development of countermeasures for driving safety enhancement.

scholarly journals Vehicle fleet turnover and the future of fuel economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 021001 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R Keith ◽  
Samantha Houston ◽  
Sergey Naumov
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Economy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vehicle Fleet

The Influence of Future Vehicle Safety Network Impact on Traffic Flow

2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 985-989
Author(s):  
Jian Qun Wang ◽  
Xu Dong Li ◽  
Ya Fei Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Flow ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Vehicle Safety ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Network Safety ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Safety Applications ◽  
Vehicle Network

With the rapid development of high-speed mobile networks, the mobile applications related to vehicle safety, navigation systems are increasingly present in our lives, it is more and more easy for the driver to understand the situation on the road ahead, and this kind of change will greatly affect future traffic conditions. This article uses cellular automaton to simulate basic road sections, considering two modes of vehicle network safety applications may affect the future traffic flow, through the simulation, analysis the basic traffic flow data, conclude how the future vehicle network safety applications impact on traffic flow.

Encouraging industry participation in the EU's Sixth Framework Programme: Issues, barriers and potential solutions

10.5912/jcb90 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wills Hughes-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Framework Programme ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
The People ◽  
Seventh Framework Programme ◽  
The Future ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Sixth Framework Programme

There is around 100m annually in the Sixth Framework Programme earmarked exclusively for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the life sciences field. That is 15 per cent of the total amount available. But most of it has yet to be allocated. Why are biopharmaceutical SMEs not applying and how can they get access to this money?The Emerging Biopharmaceutical Enterprises (EBE) group teamed up with representatives of the European Commission for the 'Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health' Thematic Priority to help companies understand how they can benefit from the Programme and give them an opportunity to add their ideas to it. Attendees came from 60 biopharmaceutical companies, and the programme was structured to allow companies to ask questions, but also put forward ideas to be included in upcoming Calls for the Sixth Framework Programme, as well as suggestions for improving the Seventh Framework Programme to improve industry participation. The event also gave them the chance to ask the Commission representatives specific questions on the administrative aspects of the Programme. The event was organised in conjunction with the Scientific Officers responsible for the different areas in the Programme; and the external experts who advise the Commission on the content of the future calls and the overall strategy for priority areas and activities of research were also invited. This meeting was designed to be as relaxed and open as possible and put the companies directly in contact with the people who implement the Framework Programme. The input from this session based on the feedback of the attendees has been formally forwarded to the Commission and the Thematic Priority Advisory Group.This paper discusses the aims and focus of the Sixth Framework Programme. It provides an overview of the discussion between the EBE and the representatives from the European Commission for the 'Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health' Thematic Priority and summarises the key problems and solutions arising therein.

Tendencies of development of the world energy

10.12737/436 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Фомичева ◽  
Irina Fomicheva
Keyword(s):  
Energy Balance ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
Global Energy Balance ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
World Energy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The paper presents the dynamics and structure of the previous and the future of global energy development for the period up to 2050. Analyzed the structural changes in the global energy balance. Identify priority areas of the global electricity.

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