Two-thirds of the fatalities involved transportation or contact with objects or equipment, the CDC found.
That generally is one of the simple screening questions asked of prospective volunteers who wished to be sent to past transportation incidents and mass fatality natural disasters.
In New York, where there were 21 cyclist fatalities last year, the transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, is always photographed on a bike and wearing a helmet.
The Surface Transportation Policy Project, a nonprofit group in Washington that lobbies for help for mass transportation, calculated recently that the fatality rate per billion miles traveled by air carriers was 0.2.
Most accidents were ground transportation related and air ambulance crash fatalities.
Federal transportation officials are concerned that work-zone fatalities, after declining in recent years along with traffic deaths in general, could rise again.
The ICCA can show significant improvements since 2002 in fatalities, injuries, carbon intensity and transportation incidents (others like water consumption, energy use and total carbon emissions are still heading in the wrong direction).
To guarantee the road safety by avoiding collisions at the intersections is one of the major tasks of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), which contributes to the minimal fatalities and property loss in crashes.
Because of these unique features, aviation has always posed the highest risk of severe injuries and fatalities, given an accident, of almost any transportation mode.
Henning-Hager [17] presented a non-linear regression model to express the relationship between traffic fatalities, traffic volumes and the quality of transportation supply and demand in urban areas.
