Non-collision incidents on buses due to acceleration and braking manoeuvres leading to falling events among standing passengers

Silvano, Ary P.; Ohlin, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2019.04.006

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“…The risk of falling in a moving vehicle was estimated to be between 0.3 and 0.5 falls per million passenger kilometres (Elvik, 2019). A recent study (Silvano and Ohlin, 2019) found that the circumstances for which passenger falls occur, and the groups typically affected, are different during acceleration and braking. During acceleration and turning from the bus stop, passengers fall after boarding, while attempting to become seated.…”

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“…This affects those aged 65+ and female users in particular, who are also overrepresented among public transport users in these type of non-collision incidents on buses (Kirk et al, 2003;Albertsson and Falkmer, 2005;Björnstig et al, 2005;Halpern et al, 2005;Kendrick et al, 2015;Barnes et al, 2016). In contrast, during braking, falling events typically occur while travelling and affect males, females and different age groups similarly (Silvano and Ohlin, 2019). Apart from age, different body proportions, compositions, and muscle strengths in males and females are important factors when studying and improving traffic safety (Vasavada et al, 2001;Carlsson et al, 2011;Jin et al, 2019).…”

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Human Response to Longitudinal Perturbations of Standing Passengers on Public Transport During Regular Operation

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This study investigates the response of standing passengers on public transport who experience balance perturbations during non-collision incidents. The objective of the study was to analyse the effects of the perturbation characteristics on the initial responses of the passengers and their ability to maintain their balance. Sled tests were conducted on healthy volunteers aged 33.8 ± 9.2 years (13 males, 11 females) standing on a moving platform, facilitating measurements of the initial muscle activity and stepping response of the volunteers. The volunteers were exposed to five different perturbation profiles representing typical braking and accelerating manoeuvres of a public transport bus in the forward and backward direction. The sequence of muscle activations in lower-extremity muscles was consistent for the perturbation pulses applied. For the three acceleration pulses combining two magnitudes for acceleration (1.5 and 3.0 m/s2) and jerk (5.6 and 11.3 m/s3), the shortest muscle onset and stepping times for the passengers to recover their balance were observed with the higher jerk value, while the profile with the higher acceleration magnitude and longer duration induced more recovery steps and a higher rate of safety-harness deployment. The tendency for a shorter response time was observed for the female volunteers. For the two braking pulses (1.0 and 2.5 m/s2), only the lower magnitude pulse allowed balance recovery without compensatory stepping. The results obtained provide a reference dataset for human body modelling, the development of virtual test protocols, and operational limits for improving the safety of public transportation vehicles and users.

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Human Response to Longitudinal Perturbations of Standing Passengers on Public Transport During Regular Operation

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Silvano

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“…The results showed that high number of manoeuvring leads to an uncomfortable riding experience. An experimental study on the influence of driver behavior on standing passengers in bus was conducted using manoeuvring as indicator [78]. Using a benchmark dataset, the study reported high probability of passenger falling during harsh manoeuvring.…”

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A Landscape of Research on Bus Driver Behavior: Taxonomy, Open Challenges, Motivations, Recommendations, Limitations, and Pathways Solution in Future

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Driver behavior is a concerning issue in the area of intelligent transportation system (ITS). Driver behavior is a significant key player in a wide range of unpleasant events during the ride, such as accidents or crashes, traffic congestion, harsh braking, and acceleration/deceleration. Influencing factors of driver behavior have been explored in several studies. It is imperative to investigate these factors in order to provide a comprehensive analysis and to categorize them on the basis of a coherent taxonomy. With that, this study conducted a systematic review on prior studies that focused on bus driver behavior, particularly in the ITS. This study also established a taxonomy on the topic of driver behavior in multiple areas of ITS and their classifications. Different databases, namely ScienceDirect, Web of Science, and IEEE Explore, were utilized to obtain relevant articles from 2008 to 2021 (15 April). Several filtering and scanning stages were performed according to the exclusion/inclusion criteria on all 2,803 articles obtained; however, only 87 articles met the criteria. The final set of articles were categorized into a taxonomy. The first part of the taxonomy focuses on five main factors that influence driver behavior: environmental, demographic, habit, vehicle, and on-road routine factors. The second part of the taxonomy discusses the mapping of data collection methods on the basis of four categories: real-time data collection, survey, simulation, and benchmark. Discussion and analysis were provided to highlight the critical literature gaps on bus driver behavior in the ITS, involving the use of real-time data collection, which is imperative for acquiring highly accurate and sophisticated data. This multi-field systematic review has exposed new research opportunities, motivations, challenges, limitations, and recommendations and highlighted the need for the synergistic integration of interdisciplinary works. Overall, this study presented pathways solution in future direction on the basis of three sequenced phases, namely design, labeling and validation, and machine learning. This study can serve as a guide for future researchers, as it addressed the ambiguities in the ITS-driver behavior domain and provided valuable information on these ITS-driver behavior trends.

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“…In general, hard acceleration occurs soon after passengers board, therefore older people are more at risk. Falls due to hard braking tend to occur during the journey, affecting younger people more (Silvano and Ohlin, 2019). While the bus system in Dunedin has many faults, such as few routes and low frequency, the drivers do always wait for all passengers (of any age) to be seated before they move off.…”

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Cycling, driving, and injuries

Mindell¹

2019

Journal of Transport & Health

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Broadening the range of people who cycleIn the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly car-focussed. Cycle trip share in Amsterdam fell from 80% in 1950s to 20% in the 1970s (van der Zee, 2015. Child traffic deaths were the catalyst to reduce car use and promote cycling (Wardlaw, 2014). Road travel deaths peaked in 1971 at 3,300, of whom more than 400 were children (van der Zee, 2015). Campaigners pioneered street closure days to allow children to play in the streets. Eventually, the 'woonerf' [homezone] was developed, followed by car-free Sundays. Nowadays, there are extensive networks of segregated cycle paths; more than a quarter of trips in the Netherlands are cycled, and almost two-fifths of trips in Amsterdam. However, in other countries, such as New Zealand, opposition to cycle lanes can be very vocal, particularly from local businesses (Field et al., 2018). We know that cyclists, like pedestrians, visit local businesses more frequently and, over a period of time, spend more money locally than drivers do (Mindell, 2015). A recent study has shown that increased cycling is associated with new businesses opening (Klemmer et al., 2018).

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Non-collision incidents on buses due to acceleration and braking manoeuvres leading to falling events among standing passengers

Cited by 21 publications

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Human Response to Longitudinal Perturbations of Standing Passengers on Public Transport During Regular Operation

Human Response to Longitudinal Perturbations of Standing Passengers on Public Transport During Regular Operation

A Landscape of Research on Bus Driver Behavior: Taxonomy, Open Challenges, Motivations, Recommendations, Limitations, and Pathways Solution in Future

Cycling, driving, and injuries

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