Assessing the impacts of climate change on the physiology and safety of motorcyclists in Taiwan

在发展中国家，摩托车是城市交通中必不可少的交通工具，它的广泛使用为许多人提供了一种社会包容的手段。鉴于其低廉的采购和维护成本，以及其速度和机动性，其使用的增加也与快速交付需求的增加有关。然而，日益严重的城市交通拥堵和相关的碰撞风险极大地影响了摩托车手。特别是对于快递员来说，在城市地区驾驶摩托车，高浓度的空气污染物、噪音和高温可能会极大地影响他们的认知能力、疲劳程度和夜间睡眠周期。季节变化和温度和降雨的长期气候变化，例如极端高温期，使这种影响进一步加剧。换句话说，交通因素，如长期的空气污染、噪音水平，以及长期的温度变化（热暴露），都是与摩托车手疲劳或睡眠不足有关的潜在风险因素，并可能导致异常行为（ADBs），例如超速、急转弯、急刹车或加速。这种行为最终会导致交通事故，造成相当大的经济损失，甚至生命损失。然而，虽然认识到这种关系，但其确切性质仍不清楚，在采取任何缓解措施之前，需要进一步调查。因此，本项目旨在探讨病理性信号改变、异常骑行行为与暴露于噪音、空气污染和高温之间的联系。因此，这个独特的项目结合了医学、污染和热效应及其对旅行公众安全的影响，并评估了气候变化对其的长期影响。它在作战领域使用了最新的可穿戴传感器。

In developing countries, the motorcycle is an essential vehicle in urban mobility, and its widespread use provides many with a means of social inclusion. Given its low acquisition and maintenance costs, and its speed and manoeuvrability, its increased use is also associated with the rise in demand for fast delivery. However, increasing urban traffic congestion and related crash risk greatly impact motorcyclists. In particular, for delivery riders, having to operate their motorcycle in urban areas, in which high concentrations of air pollutants, loud noise and high heat may considerably affect their cognitive performance, fatigue level and nighttime sleep cycle. Such effects are further compounded by seasonal variations and long-term climate change in temperature and rainfall, e.g. periods of extreme heat. In other words, traffic factors such as long-term air pollution, noise levels, as well as long-term changes in temperature changes (heat exposure), are potential risk factors that are associated with a motorcyclist's fatigue or inadequate sleep and possibly cause aberrantriding behaviours (ADBs), e.g. excessive speeding, sharp steering, and hard braking or acceleration. Such behaviours can ultimately result in traffic accidents leading to considerable economic losses and even a loss of life. However, whilst there is a recognition of such relationships, their exact nature remains unclear and requires further investigation, prior to any mitigation measures. This project, therefore, aims to explore the associations between pathological signal alterations, aberrant riding behaviours and exposure to noise,air pollution, as well as heat.This unique project therefore combines medicine, pollution and heat effects and their impacts on the safety of the travelling public, and assesses how long term climate changes will affect this. And it does so using the latest in wearable sensors in an operational field.