Safety Issues: Pedestrians, Law Enforcement, Seat Belts, Elderly Drivers, and Economics

摘要

The 8 papers in the report deal with the following areas: Pedestrian/vehicle conflicts: An accident prediction model; Traffic accidents involving accompanied and unaccompanied children in the Federal Republic of Germany; Characteristics of pedestrian accidents in Montreal Central Business District; Calibration of an infrared pedestrian counting system for shopping malls; Guidelines for utilization of police officers in traffic control and enforcement on urban freeways; Safety belts and turn signals: driver disposition and the law; highway accident patterns in Michigan related to older drivers; Short-term effects of safety-related recalls on new vehicle purchase decisions: an empirical analysis.