The objective of this study is to discuss the main constraints in classifying the severity of road accidents using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). To achieve this, ANN modelling with Multiple Layers Perceptron (MPL) was ...

Sleepiness could cause different accidents at work and in our daily lives. Activities such as driving a car, handling heavy machinery, being in charge of controlling a satellite or monitoring a nuclear plant, are activities ...

Several studies show a crescent association between sleep-disordered breathing, excessive sleepiness and automobile accidents. Many countries already discussed about specific regulations for drivers with these conditions, ...

Road accidents occur all over the world and end up being a concern to be faced continuously by society and transport safety professionals. The reduction of the number of road accidents is a challenge to society and ...

One of the new goals of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development is to halve the world number of deaths and injuries due to traffic accidents by 2020. Traffic accidents involve the loss of 1.3 million people in the world ...

Brazil is the country with the highest number of road traffic deaths by inhabitant in South America, been the state of Paraná, the 60 in the national ranking of road traffic deaths. However, been between the most populous ...