Getting back to basics: using road accident investigation to identify the desirable functionality of longitudinal control systems by Nikolaos Gkikas, Julian Hill, John H. Richardson

“…The road user interactions file from 3024 road accidents in Thames Valley and South Nottinghamshire regions of the UK, as covered by OTS study, were analysed. Significant contributory factors where “failure to stop the vehicle” was identified as the accident precipitating factor were seen to be “following too close”, “disobeyed automatic traffic signal”, “careless/reckless/in a hurry”, “failure to look” and “failure to judge other person’s path or speed”. …”
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When Pigs Fly by Avsar Gurpinar, Cansu Curgen Gurpinar

“…In this bustling crossroad where different modes of transportation intersect and people and vehicles are constantly in a hurry, the daily fragments of time, whose mathematical translation is almost impossible, flicker, drift, flow, intersect, and flash.…”
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British aid to Nigerian libraries: an analytical study of the work of three major British organisations involved in the development of library services in the country by Saliu A. Ajia

“…Consequently, there arose in me a desire to take stock of past foreign aid to libraries in the country at large with a view of determining how they had been utilized. …”
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Functional failure sequences in traffic accidents by Deniz Atalar

“…This thesis concludes by discussing how (1) microscopic in-depth accident data is needed to understand accident mechanisms, (2) a data mining approach using latent class clustering can benefit the understanding of failure mechanisms, (3) accident causation analysis is necessary to understand the types of failures that road users make and (4) accident scenario development helps quantify accidents and allows for accident countermeasure implication discussion. …”
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