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• Effect of the Road Environment on Road Safety in Poland

  Publication

  • M. Budzyński
  • K. Jamroz
  • A. Marcin

  - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - Year 2017

  Run-off-road accidents tend to be very severe because when a vehicle leaves the road, it will often crash into a solid obstacle (tree, pole, supports, front wall of a culvert, barrier). A statistical analysis of the data shows that Poland's main roadside hazard is trees and the severity of vehicles striking a tree in a run-off-road crash. The risks are particularly high in north-west Poland with many of the roads lined up with...

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• Agent-based social network as a simulation of a market behaviour

  Publication

  • M. Płotka
  • W. S. Mościbrodzki

  - Year 2010

  Recent years and the outbreak of world's economic crisis in 2008 proved the crucial importance of reliable analysis of market dynamics. However, werarely apply models of proper detail level (the global prosperity forecast of 2007 can be seen as a grim proof). The behaviour of individuals and companies is far from being ideal and rational. Many claims that the economic paradigm of rational expectations (coming from J. Muth and R....