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Book Enhancing Statistical Methodologies for Highway Safety Research

Download or read book Enhancing Statistical Methodologies for Highway Safety Research written by David Banks and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Highway Administration Development of Crash Modification Factors (DCMF) Program was established in 2012 to address highway safety research needs for evaluating new and innovative safety strategies (improvements) by developing reliable quantitative estimates of their effectiveness in reducing crashes. A goal of the DCMF is to advance highway safety and related research by establishing a sound foundation for the development of highway transportation specific statistical methodologies in cooperation with the American Statistical Association and other statistician communities. In pursuit of that goal, a two-day Technical Experts meeting brought together researchers from the road safety, statistics, and other statistics-related fields such as epidemiology, biostatistics, and agent based modeling that have methodologies relevant to highway safety research applications. The meeting resulted in guidance and materials that supported the development of this white paper, which identifies and discusses opportunities for advancing methodologies to estimate crash modification factors and safety performance functions. The paper outlines considerations and future steps to encourage researchers to explore these techniques in their research.

Book Statistical Methods in Highway Safety Analysis

Download or read book Statistical Methods in Highway Safety Analysis written by Bhagwant Naraine Persaud and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 295: Statistical Methods in Highway Safety Analysis focus on the type of safety analysis required to support traditional engineering functions, such as the identification of hazardous locations and the development and evaluation of countermeasures. Analyses related specifically to driver and vehicle safety are not covered, but some statistical methods used in these areas are of relevance and are summarized where appropriate.

Book Statistical Methods and Highway Safety Performance

Download or read book Statistical Methods and Highway Safety Performance written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Statistical Methods

Download or read book Statistical Methods written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Transportation Research Record contains 28 papers dealing with statistical methods in highway safety research; highway safety data, analysis, and evaluation; occupant protection; and systematic reviews and meta-analysis. The papers address such topics as risk and crash prediction models, crashes on freeways and at signalized intersections, multivehicle crash prediction, speed and safety, red light running crashes, freeway lane closures, ramp design, accident exposure, rumble strip benefits, collisions with median trees, intersection safety, accident reconstruction, safety effects of speed limit changes, geometric design and head-on crashes, deer-vehicle crashes, sport utility vehicle rollover, vehicle occupancy and crash risk, a logit model for studying injury severity, abdominal injuries in rail passengers, healthy transport policies, and meta-analysis.

Book Highway Safety

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Download or read book Highway Safety written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Using Spatial Tools to Analyze Crash and Roadway Data

Download or read book Using Spatial Tools to Analyze Crash and Roadway Data written by GeoDecisions and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PennDOT engaged Gannett Fleming to conduct research into best practices in the use of geospatial analysis tools for highway safety analyses. The goals of the effort were to define a methodology for PennDOT to follow in identifying the best candidate locations for highway safety improvements, and to develop a Proof of Concept to test the proposed methodology. After conducting interviews and workshops involving more than 35 of PennDOT's stakeholders in highway safety processes, Gannett Fleming interviewed highway safety managers in five other state and federal highway agencies to determine what innovative tools and practices are currently being used. Gannett Fleming's research also included a review of literature related to the study from more than 80 sources. Based on Gannett Fleming's research and analysis, PennDOT selected the "Highway Safety Data Relationships Knowledge Base" for further research. The knowledge base is an information repository based on concepts in data mining and expert systems. It uses advanced statistical analysis methods and expert business knowledge rules to discover data patterns based on correlation and other forms of relationships in the data. The knowledge base can be applied to diagnosing specific combinations of data attributes and features that may indicate the causative factors among homogeneous populations of crashes. Most highway safety data analyses involve studying correlations among multiple data sets. The knowledge base is an innovative and compreh3nsive tool for such an application. It provides a framework for identifying and managing relationships among many combinations of data sets that are useful in highway safety analyses. Gannett Fleming proceeded to develop a prototype as a proof of concept. Gannett Fleming demonstrated the prototype using actual PennDOT crash data. Three analysis scenarios were demonstrated" evaluating safety programming alternatives for alcohol involved crashes, diagnosing data patterns of crashes at a selected highway location, identifying potential sites for system-wide deployment of a selected countermeasure

Book Highway and Traffic Safety

Download or read book Highway and Traffic Safety written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: Method for identifying factors contributing to driver-injury severity in traffic crashes (Chen, WH and Jovanis, PP); Crash- and injury-outcome multipliers (Kim, K); Guidelines for identification of hazardous highway curves (Persaud, B, Retting, RA and Lyon, C); Tools to identify safety issues for a corridor safety-improvement program (Breyer, JP); Prediction of risk of wet-pavement accidents : fuzzy logic model (Xiao, J, Kulakowski, BT and El-Gindy, M); Analysis of accident-reduction factors on California state highways (Hanley, KE, Gibby, AR and Ferrara, T); Injury effects of rollovers and events sequence in single-vehicle crashes (Krull, KA, Khattack, AJ and Council, FM); Analytical modeling of driver-guidance schemes with flow variability considerations (Kaysi, I and Ail, NH); Evaluating the effectiveness of Norway's speak out! road safety campaign : The logic of causal inference in road safety evaluation studies (Elvik, R); Effect of speed, flow, and geometric characteristics on crash frequency for two-lane highways (Garber, NJ and Ehrhart, AA); Development of a relational accident database management system for Mexican federal roads (Mendoza, A, Uribe, A, Gil, GZ and Mayoral, E); Estimating traffic accident rates while accounting for traffic-volume estimation error : a Gibbs sampling approach (Davis, GA); Accident prediction models with and without trend : application of the generalized estimating equations procedure (Lord, D and Persaud, BN); Examination of methods that adjust observed traffic volumes on a network (Kikuchi, S, Miljkovic, D and van Zuylen, HJ); Day-to-day travel-time trends and travel-time prediction form loop-detector data (Kwon, JK, Coifman, B and Bickel, P); Heuristic vehicle classification using inductive signatures on freeways (Sun, C and Ritchie, SG).

Book Statistical Methods and Modeling and Safety Data  Analysis  and Evaluation

Download or read book Statistical Methods and Modeling and Safety Data Analysis and Evaluation written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers empirical approaches to outlier detection in intelligent transportation systems data, modeling of traffic crash-flow relationships for intersections, profiling of high-frequency accident locations by use of association rules, analysis of rollovers and injuries with sport utility vehicles, and automated accident detection at intersections via digital audio signal processing.

Book Statistical Methods and Safety Data Analysis and Evaluation

Download or read book Statistical Methods and Safety Data Analysis and Evaluation written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technologies for Improving Safety Data

Download or read book Technologies for Improving Safety Data written by Jennifer Harper Ogle and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2007 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technologies for Improving Safety Data explores new technologies for the acquisition, processing, and overall management of crash, roadway inventory, and traffic operations data. The report examines the current state-of-the-practice and state-of-the-art use of technologies for efficient and effective collection and maintenance of data for highway safety analysis." -- publisher's website.

Book The Development of Crash Modification Factors

Download or read book The Development of Crash Modification Factors written by Eric Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transportation-engineering community is transforming by integrating quantitative methods into the task development process. This report identifies opportunities to better understand the relationships between road safety and factors that affect traffic-crash occurrence and severity. In this report, current statistical-analysis methods and data sources used in road-safety research are compared with alternative methods and data sources. Causal inference methods are compared to observational before–after methods to develop safety-effect estimates of centerline and edgeline rumble strips. Regression trees and Random ForestsTM are compared to count regression methods to predict crash frequencies on freeways. Road-safety performance estimates using the Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System are also discussed, with a focus on opportunities to link hospital and crash data to understand the relationship between crashes and site-specific contributing factors. Methods to account for underreporting in crash-frequency models are also described.

Book Statistical Methodology Applications to Design  Data Analysis  and Evaluation

Download or read book Statistical Methodology Applications to Design Data Analysis and Evaluation written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Highway Safety Performance  Statistical Methods  and Visualization

Download or read book Highway Safety Performance Statistical Methods and Visualization written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2241 consists of 13 papers that explore highway safety metrics implementation and evaluation, levels of safety at freeway exits, calibration of Highway Safety Manual predictive models, estimating crash modification factors for daytime versus nighttime work zones, and an evaluation of the Texas Department of Transportation safety improvement index as a prioritization tool. This issue of the TRR also examines the effects of underreporting crash data, crash variances estimated by poison models, modeling of driver decision at onset of yellow light at signalized intersections, roundabout performance, automated detection of spatial traffic violations, identifying and quantifying intersection obstruction and its severity, and workplace simulator for geometric design of rural roads.

Book Statistical Methods in Transportation and Safety Data Analysis for Highway Geometry  Design  and Operations

Download or read book Statistical Methods in Transportation and Safety Data Analysis for Highway Geometry Design and Operations written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Statistical Methods and Highway Safety Performance 2012

Download or read book Statistical Methods and Highway Safety Performance 2012 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2279 consists of 15 papers that explore rule-based forecasting of traffic flow; household automobile and motorcycle ownership; path-based algorithms; effects of gasoline price and miles traveled on fatal crashes; quantile effects of causal factors on crash distributions; statistical test for 85th and 15th percentile speeds; and nonconforming behavior of pedestrians at urban intersections. This issue of the TRR also examines crash modification factors; Highway Safety Manual calibration factors; calibration of the Highway Safety Manual safety performance function; assessing international transferability of the Highway Safety Manual crash prediction algorithm; the safety and effectiveness of composite shoulders on rural two-lane highways; crash modification factors for changes to left-turn phasing; relationship between freeway flow parameters and safety; and horizontal curves, signs, and safety. " -- pub. desc.

Book Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling

Download or read book Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling written by Dominique Lord and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling comprehensively covers the key elements needed to make effective transportation engineering and policy decisions based on highway safety data analysis in a single. reference. The book includes all aspects of the decision-making process, from collecting and assembling data to developing models and evaluating analysis results. It discusses the challenges of working with crash and naturalistic data, identifies problems and proposes well-researched methods to solve them. Finally, the book examines the nuances associated with safety data analysis and shows how to best use the information to develop countermeasures, policies, and programs to reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes. Complements the Highway Safety Manual by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Provides examples and case studies for most models and methods Includes learning aids such as online data, examples and solutions to problems