A review of the effect of traffic and weather characteristics on road safety

A Theofilatos, G Yannis - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2014 - Elsevier
Taking into consideration the increasing availability of real-time traffic data and stimulated by
the importance of proactive safety management, this paper attempts to provide a review of …

A review of risk factors and patterns of motorcycle injuries

MR Lin, JF Kraus - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2009 - Elsevier
Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcycle riders have a 34-fold higher risk of death in a crash
than people driving other types of motor vehicles. While lower-extremity injuries most …

Mandated societal lockdown and road traffic accidents

AI Qureshi, W Huang, S Khan, I Lobanova… - Accident Analysis & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The effect of mandated societal lockdown to reduce the transmission of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on road traffic accidents is not known. For this …

Driver injury severity: an application of ordered probit models

KM Kockelman, YJ Kweon - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper describes the use of ordered probit models to examine the risk of different injury
levels sustained under all crash types, two-vehicle crashes, and single-vehicle crashes. The …

[PDF][PDF] Speed and road accidents: an evaluation of the Power Model

R Elvik, P Christensen, AH Amundsen - 2004 - vbn.aau.dk
The relationship between speed and road safety is a highly controversial and emotionally
charged subject. This report investigates the effects of changes in speed on the number of …

The effect of traffic and road characteristics on road safety: A review and future research direction

C Wang, MA Quddus, SG Ison - Safety science, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding factors affecting road accidents is an important area in road safety research.
This paper provides a review of the factors, with specific focus on traffic and road related …

Relationships among urban freeway accidents, traffic flow, weather, and lighting conditions

TF Golob, WW Recker - Journal of transportation engineering, 2003 - ascelibrary.org
Linear and nonlinear multivariate statistical analyses are applied to determine how the types
of accidents that occur on heavily used freeways in Southern California are related both to …

Impact of traffic congestion on road accidents: A spatial analysis of the M25 motorway in England

C Wang, MA Quddus, SG Ison - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2009 - Elsevier
Traffic congestion and road accidents are two external costs of transport and the reduction of
their impacts is often one of the primary objectives for transport policy makers. The …

A real-time crash prediction fusion framework: An imbalance-aware strategy for collision avoidance systems

ZE Abou Elassad, H Mousannif… - … research part C: emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
Real-time traffic crash prediction has been a major concern in the development of Collision
Avoidance Systems (CASs) along with other intelligent and resilient transportation …

Freeway safety as a function of traffic flow

TF Golob, WW Recker, VM Alvarez - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2004 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present evidence of strong relationships between traffic flow conditions and
the likelihood of traffic accidents (crashes), by type of crash. Traffic flow variables are …