Archive for the ‘Transportation incident’ Category
China: 13 killed as fight between passenger and driver causes bus to plunge into the Yangtze River.
Friday, November 2nd, 2018At least 18 people were killed and 178 others injured when a train derailed in Taiwan
Monday, October 22nd, 2018At least 55 killed and 60 injured in northern India on Friday night after a train struck people celebrating a Hindu festival at a railway track
Saturday, October 20th, 2018Ecuador: At least 24 were killed and another 19 injured when a bus careened into another vehicle at high speed and overturned on a highway near Quito.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018Fourteen people have been wounded, some seriously, in a knife attack on a bus in Lübeck, Germany
Friday, July 20th, 2018New Mexico: Three people were killed and 24 others were injured in a crash involving a tour bus and 3 other vehicles on I-25
Monday, July 16th, 2018An Analysis of Vehicle Ramming as a Terrorist Tactic
Monday, July 9th, 2018Global motorcyclists: A unique methodology to identify traffic hotspots around the world and then try to find answers to extinguish them
Saturday, June 30th, 2018“…..Crowdsourcing. They would survey motorcyclists about road traffic “hotspots”—areas of high-density crash locations—in the region. They hypothesized that the people who spend their days traversing across town would have valuable insights that could help inform future road safety interventions. It turns out they were right. Staton, Vissoci, Østbye and Luciano Andrade, a post-doctoral researcher working with Staton, initially tested this method in Kigali, Rwanda, and Galle, Sri Lanka, in collaboration with Stephen Rulisa in Rwanda and Vijitha Da Silva in Sri Lanka. They asked moto drivers in Rwanda and tuk-tuk (three-wheel) drivers in Sri Lanka to identify dangerous locations in the region and label the severity of danger of each location. Then, the researchers compared police data to the information the drivers provided.
The study not only showed that data from these “high road utilizers” aligned well with police data, but also identified potential additional hotspots. The research team also found that this crowdsourcing approach is less costly than collecting police data and is easily reproducible, adaptable and interpretable. They were able to replicate the study in Moshi, Tanzania, a year later in collaboration with KCMC researcher Mark Mvungi and got similar results…..
The next step….is to formulate targeted, cost-effective interventions to minimize the risk in these traffic hotspots. These interventions might include measures such as adding speed bumps; improving road pavement conditions, visibility and signage; and promoting helmet use……”