Analyzing road crash frequencies with uncorrelated and correlated random-parameters count models: An empirical assessment of multilane highways

TU Saeed, T Hall, H Baroud, MJ Volovski - Analytic methods in accident …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent literature on highway safety research has focused on methodological advances to
minimize misspecifications and the potential for erroneous estimates and invalid statistical …

Safety sensitivity to roadway characteristics: A comparison across highway classes

S Chen, TU Saeed, M Alinizzi, S Lavrenz… - Accident Analysis & …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper examined the accident risk factors associated with highway traffic and roadway
design, for each of three highway classes in the United States using a bivariate modeling …

State-of-research on performance indicators for bridge quality control and management

MA Zanini, F Faleschini, JR Casas - Frontiers in built environment, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The present study provides a review of the most diffused technical and non-technical
performance indicators adopted worldwide by infrastructure owners. This work, developed …

Modeling unobserved heterogeneity for zonal crash frequencies: A Bayesian multivariate random-parameters model with mixture components for spatially correlated …

H Huang, F Chang, H Zhou, J Lee - Analytic methods in accident research, 2019 - Elsevier
This study applies mixture components in a multivariate random parameters spatial model
for zonal crash counts. Three different modeling formulations are employed to demonstrate …

Road infrastructure readiness for autonomous vehicles

TU Saeed - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Contemporary research indicates that the era of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is not only
inevitable but may be reached sooner than expected; however, not enough research has …

Traffic accident spatial simulation modeling for planning of road emergency services

A Naboureh, B Feizizadeh, A Naboureh, J Bian… - … International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The appropriate locations of road emergency stations (RESs) can help to decrease the
impact of traffic accidents that cause around 50 million injuries per year worldwide. In this …

Exploring risk factors with crashes by collision type at freeway diverge areas: accounting for unobserved heterogeneity

Y Guo, Z Li, P Liu, Y Wu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of various risk factors on traffic crashes
presenting different collision types at freeway diverge areas. Three-year period crash data …

Safety implications of roadway design and management: new evidence and insights in the traditional and emerging (autonomous vehicle) operating environments

S Chen - 2019 - search.proquest.com
In the context of highway safety factors, road geometrics and pavement condition are of
particular interest to highway managers as they fall within their direct control and therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of severe and non-severe traffic crashes on wet and dry highways

A Kassu, M Anderson - Transportation research interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study examined the effects of several variables associated with geometric,
environmental, and drivers' demographic factors on the likelihood of occurrences of traffic …

Extracting topographic data from online sources to generate a digital elevation model for highway preliminary geometric design

S Chen, Z Tang, H Zhou, J Cheng - Journal of Transportation …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Two principal aspects of preliminary highway design are detailed characterization of the
geographic and topographic features along potential candidate alignments and preliminary …