News tagged with road traffic
Living under a flight path increases heart attack risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research in Switzerland suggests the risk of dying from a heart attack is greater for people exposed to the noise of aircraft flying overhead. The study included data on 4.6 million adults ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Traffic noise increases the risk of having a stroke
Exposure to noise from road traffic can increase the risk of stroke, particularly in those aged 65 years and over, according to a study published online today (Wednesday 26 January) in the European Heart Journal.
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Without driver or map, vans go from Italy to China
Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert - it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost.
Oct 28, 2010 |
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CarTel project researching cars as mobile sensors
Data about road and traffic conditions can come from radio stations’ helicopters, the Department of Transportation’s roadside sensors, or even, these days, updates from ordinary people with cell phones. But ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Plan to use satellites to monitor British motorists
(PhysOrg.com) -- Britain may soon be using global positioning satellites and advanced speed cameras with number plate recognition technology to track speeding motorists, and according to a report released ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Smarter cars are gaining traction (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lives can depend on a vehicle's moment-by-moment traction. New European technology promises to make cars as good as experienced, alert drivers at sensing and adjusting to wet, snowy or icy ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Ground Control to Major Tom: London ISA Catches Speeders
An Intelligent Speed Adaption (ISA) system is being tested by the London for Transport (TfL). The eye-in-the-sky ISA system relies on a computer installed in the vehicle with pre-loaded speed limit road data ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 11, 2009 |
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Statistical road safety: 18th century math, 21st century road safety
What possible connection could there be between an eighteenth century British Presbyterian minister and preventing road traffic accidents in Hartford, Connecticut. Everything, according to a report in the International Jo ...
Mar 27, 2009 |
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Brighten up! Paint study could save states millions
A new study from North Carolina State University shows that painted road markings, such as the lines separating traffic lanes, are significantly better at reflecting headlights in the direction that the paint was applied. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Slow Down -- Those Lines On The Road Are Longer Than You Think
Take a guess -- how long are the dashed lines that are painted down the middle of a road? If you're like most people, you answered, "Two feet."
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Traffic harms Asturian amphibians
The roads are the main cause of fragmenting the habitats of many species, especially amphibians, as they cause them to be run over and a loss of genetic diversity. Furthermore, traffic harms two abundant species ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Generating electricity from vibrations in road surface works
A pilot research project into vibration energy on the N34 provincial motorway near Hardenberg in the eastern Netherlands has shown that vibration energy as a local energy source is a sustainable alternative ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Visions of a 'car-free future'
City centers could become virtually car-free over the next 20 years under new plans proposed by University of Leeds transport researchers.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 20, 2011 |
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MUTE -- Efficient city car, showcase for electromobility research
With its electric vehicle MUTE, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany) presents the first publicly visible result of its research program TUM.Energy. MUTE will showcase the TUM's answer to future ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 12, 2011 |
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SAFEPED helps cities fix dangerous intersections
Traffic planners and engineers worry about "black spots" — intersections that experience a high incidence of traffic accidents. But when it comes to designing safer roads, they lack effective tools to ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Road traffic safety
Road traffic safety aims to reduce the harm (deaths, injuries, and property damage) resulting from crashes of road vehicles. Harm from road traffic crashes is greater than that from all other transportation modes (air, sea, space, off-terrain, etc.) combined.[citation needed]
Road traffic safety deals exclusively with road traffic crashes – how to reduce their number and their consequences. A road traffic crash is an event involving a road vehicle that results in harm. For reasons of clear data collection, only harm involving a road vehicle is included. A person tripping with fatal consequences on a public road is not included as a road-traffic fatality. To be counted a pedestrian fatality, the victim must be struck by a road vehicle.
For more information about Road traffic safety, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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