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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 2021-02-27 with total page 504 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

Book State Traffic Safety Information

Download or read book State Traffic Safety Information written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transportation Safety Data and Analysis

Download or read book Transportation Safety Data and Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, advanced statistical methods are being utilized in traffic safety studies to more accurately determine the effectiveness of roadway safety measures. This report explains the process wherein a hierarchical Bayesian model is developed as a tool to analyze the effectiveness of two types of road safety measures: raised medians and cable barrier.

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  Improved Monitoring and Oversight of Traffic Safety Data Program are Needed  Report to Congressional Committees

Download or read book Highway Safety Improved Monitoring and Oversight of Traffic Safety Data Program are Needed Report to Congressional Committees written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the quality of state crash information; the activities states undertook using 411 grant funds to improve their traffic safety data systems, and the progress they made using the grant funds; and NHTSA's oversight of the grant program

Book Traffic Safety Data

Download or read book Traffic Safety Data written by Susan Fleming and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traffic crashes kill or injure millions of people each year. High-quality traffic safety data is vital to allocate resources and target programs as the National Highway Traffic Safety Admin, (NHTSA) and states work to improve traffic safety through data-driven approaches. To qualify for federal funding, states must submit plans which include fatality and crash data analyses to identify areas for improvement. This report provides information on: (1) the extent to which state traffic safety data systems meet NHTSA performance measures for assessing the quality of data systems; and (2) progress states have made in improving traffic safety data systems, and related challenges. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.

Book Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Download or read book Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems written by Mashrur Chowdhury and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems provides in-depth coverage of data-enabled methods for analyzing intelligent transportation systems that includes detailed coverage of the tools needed to implement these methods using big data analytics and other computing techniques. The book examines the major characteristics of connected transportation systems, along with the fundamental concepts of how to analyze the data they produce. It explores collecting, archiving, processing, and distributing the data, designing data infrastructures, data management and delivery systems, and the required hardware and software technologies. Users will learn how to design effective data visualizations, tactics on the planning process, and how to evaluate alternative data analytics for different connected transportation applications, along with key safety and environmental applications for both commercial and passenger vehicles, data privacy and security issues, and the role of social media data in traffic planning. Includes case studies in each chapter that illustrate the application of concepts covered Presents extensive coverage of existing and forthcoming intelligent transportation systems and data analytics technologies Contains contributors from both leading academic and commercial researchers Explains how to design effective data visualizations, tactics on the planning process, and how to evaluate alternative data analytics for different connected transportation applications

Book Transportation Safety Data and Analysis

Download or read book Transportation Safety Data and Analysis written by Grant G. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, advanced statistical methods are being utilized in traffic safety studies to more accurately determine the effectiveness of roadway safety measures. This report explains the process wherein a hierarchical Bayesian model is developed as a tool to analyze the effectiveness of two types of road safety measures: raised medians and cable barrier.

Book Safety Data  Analysis  and Evaluation

Download or read book Safety Data Analysis and Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB?s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2514, explores 19 papers related to safety data, analysis, and evaluation in the transportation sector, including: Exploring Driver Error at Intersections: Key Contributors and Solutions; Level of Service of Safety Revisited; Longitudinal Analysis of Rural Interstate Fatalities in Relation to Speed Limit Policies; Predicting Crashes on Expressway Ramps with Real-Time Traffic and Weather Data; Multilevel Logistic Regression Modeling for Crash Mapping in Metropolitan Areas; Simulated Traffic Conflicts: Do They Accurately Represent Field-Measured Conflicts?; Assessing Safety Improvements to Pedestrian Crossings Using Automated Conflict Analysis; Understanding Factors Affecting Frequency of Traffic Conflicts Between Electric Bicycles and Motorized Vehicles at Signalized Intersections; Comparative Analysis of Injury Severity Resulting from Pedestrian?Motor Vehicle and Bicycle?Motor Vehicle Crashes on Roadways in Alabama; Validation of Crash Modification Factors Derived from Cross-Sectional Studies with Regression Models; Fault Determination for Crashes in Vermont: Implications of Distance from Home; Crash Patterns at Signalized Intersections; Analyses of Multiyear Statewide Secondary Crash Data and Automatic Crash Report Reviewing; Assessment of Pedestrian Risk at Crossings with Kinematic?Probabilistic Model; Predicting Driver Injury Severity in Single-Vehicle and Two-Vehicle Crashes with Boosted Regression Trees; Effects of Geodemographic Profiles of Drivers on Their Injury Severity from Traffic Crashes Using Multilevel Mixed-Effects Ordered Logit Model; Copula-Based Joint Model of Injury Severity and Vehicle Damage in Two-Vehicle Crashes; Identifying Optimal High-Risk Driver Segments for Safety Messaging: Geodemographic Modeling Approach; Evaluation of Signalized-Intersection Crash Screening Methods Based on Distance from Intersection."--Publisher's description.

Book Annual Report to the Secretary  Department of Transportation  on the Accident Investigation and Reporting Activities of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Download or read book Annual Report to the Secretary Department of Transportation on the Accident Investigation and Reporting Activities of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration written by United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Office of Accident Investigation and Data Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transportation Accident Analysis and Prevention

Download or read book Transportation Accident Analysis and Prevention written by Anton de Smet and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to research on transportation accidental injury and damage, including the pre-injury and immediate post-injury phases. It also includes studies of human, environmental and vehicular factors influencing the occurrence, type and severity of transportation accidents and injury; the design, implementation and evaluation of countermeasures; biomechanics of impact and human tolerance limits to injury; modelling and statistical analysis of accident data; policy, planning and decision-making in safety and prevention of traffic accidents.

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 Highway Safety Data  A Report to the Secretary of Transportation

Download or read book Highway Safety Data A Report to the Secretary of Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Safety Data  Analysis  and Modeling

Download or read book Safety Data Analysis and Modeling written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2083 includes 22 papers that explore data-driven perspective on safety risk management, macrolevel annual safety performance measures, tool with road-level crash prediction for safety planning, congestion and number of lanes on urban freeways relationship to safety, accident modification factors, identifying hazardous road locations, identifying hot spots, and safety influence area for four-legged signalized intersections. This issue of the TRR also examines automated analysis of accident exposure, new simulation-based surrogate safety measure, hit-and-run crashes, speed limit increases' effect on injury severity, safety of curbs, proximity to intersections and injury severity of urban arterial crashes, nested logit model of traffic flow on freeway ramps, intelligent transportation system data for assessing freeway safety, vehicle time spent in following on two-lane rural roads, indirect associations in crash data, crash prediction models for rural highways, and methodology for identifying causal factors of accident severity.

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.