Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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94 Road User Safety Women's Issues lidia P Kostyniuk, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute every year about 1 million people are killed and between 20 and 50 million are injured world-wide in motor-vehicle-related crashes (Peden et al.
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95RoAD uSeR SAFeTY past half century by charting the ratio of licensed women relative to licensed men by age at 10-year intervals from 1965 to 2005. Half a century ago, young women under the age of 20 were not getting licensed to drive as early as young men.
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96 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 exceed those of women. The rate for women's fatal crash involvement per licensed driver is about one-third that of men.
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97RoAD uSeR SAFeTY factors influence exposure and risks of crashes and should be considered when making comparisons. risky driving behaviors Men's confidence in their driving ability in general is higher than women's, and they tend to exhibit riskier driving behavior than women.
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98 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 and 21% of the female drivers had a BAC of >.08 grams per deciliter (derived from nHTSA 2009b)
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99RoAD uSeR SAFeTY ses of car-following behaviors using naturalistic driving data from field operational tests in which 78 drivers were given instrumented vehicles for a month and told to drive as they normally do also identified gender effects in car following (Fancher et al.
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100 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 Crashworthiness and occupant protection are part of motor vehicle design. Because women are more prone to injury in crashes of the same severity, and because of women's smaller size, they are affected differently by various safety systems than are men.
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101RoAD uSeR SAFeTY there are opportunities to study immigrant communities and to identify patterns of vehicle use and behavior that could contribute to the understanding of women's safety issues in societies undergoing motorization. references Chapline, J
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102 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 national Highway Traffic Safety Association (nHTSA)
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