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The effects of daylight and daylight saving time on US pedestrian fatalities and motor vehicle occupant fatalities

Objectives: To analyse the effects of daylight and daylight saving time (DST) on pedestrian and motor vehicle occupant fatalities in the United States.

Author(s): D. Coate and S Markowitz

Published: Accident Analysis and Prevention, Volume 36, 2002
Date: 18 Mar 2013
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The role of ambient light level in fatal crashes: inferences from daylight saving time transitions

Objectives: To estimate the size of the influence of ambient light level on fatal pedestrian and vehicle RTIs in three scenarios. The scenarios were: fatal pedestrian RTIs at intersections, fatal pedestrian RTIs on dark rural roads, and fatal single-vehicle run-off-road RTIs on dark, curved roads.

Author(s): J. M. Sullivan and M. J. Flannagan

Published: Accident Analysis and Prevention Volume 34, pp.487–498, 2001
Date: 18 Mar 2013
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Fatal accidents following changes in daylight savings time: the American experience

Objectives: To examine specific hypotheses that both sleep loss and behavioural changes occurring with the time shifts for Daylight Savings Time (DST) significantly effect the number of fatal RTIS in the United States of America.

Author(s): J. Varughese and R. P. Allen

Published: Sleep Medicine Volume 2(1), 31-36, 2001
Date: 18 Mar 2013
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A new assessment of the likely effects on road accidents of adopting SDST (TRL Report 368)

Objectives: To explore the effect of the level of natural light on the incidence of casualties, and to predict the effect on casualty totals of altering the system of timekeeping in Great Britain.

Author(s): J. Broughton and M. Stone

Published: TRL, 1998
Date: 18 Mar 2013
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Daylight Saving Time and Motor Vehicle Crashes: The Reduction in Pedestrian and Vehicle Occupant Fatalities

Objectives: To determine the effect of daylight savings time on road casualties.

Author(s): S.A Ferguson, D.F. Preusser, A.K. Lund, P.L. Zadorand R.G. Ulmer

Published: American Journal of Public Health, Volume 85, No. 1, 2001
Date: 18 Mar 2013
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Time for Change, Setting Clocks Forward by One Hour Throughout the Year, A New Review of the Evidence

Objectives: To update the original study of the costs and benefits for the UK of putting its clocks forward by one hour in summer and in winter which was published in 1988 by Policy Studies Institute under the title ‘Making the Most of Daylight Hours’.

Author(s): M. Hillman

Published: Policy Studies Institute, 1993
Date: 18 Mar 2013
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Policy Briefing – Single/Double Summertime

Objectives: To provide a policy briefing about Single Double Summer Time.

Author(s): Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS)

Published: Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS), 2010
Date: 18 Mar 2013
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Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: 2011 annual report

Objectives: To produce statistics relating to all Road Traffic Incidents (RTIs) reported to the police in Great Britain in 2011.

Author(s): P. Kilbey, D. Wilson, O. Beg, G. Goodman and A. Bhagat

Published: Department for Transport, 2012
Date: 18 Apr 2013
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Pavement Parking (Traffic Advisory Leaflet 4/93)

Objectives: To describe the various physical measures that Local Authorities can use to prevent or deter parking on the footway, and to outline their good and bad points.

Author(s): Department for Transport

Published: Department for Transport, 1993
Date: 18 Apr 2013
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Does street network design affect traffic safety?

Objectives: To assess the effect of street and street network characteristics on total RTIs, severe injury RTIs, and fatal RTIs.

Author(s): W.E. Marshall and N.W. Garrick

Published: Accident Analysis and Prevention, Volume 43(3):769-781, 2011
Date: 18 Apr 2013
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