Partial proportional odds model—An alternate choice for analyzing pedestrian crash injury severities

L Sasidharan, M Menéndez - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2014 - Elsevier
The conventional methods for crash injury severity analyses include either treating the
severity data as ordered (eg ordered logit/probit models) or non-ordered (eg multinomial …

Improving driving safety in freeway tunnels: A field study of linear visual guiding facilities

S Wang, Z Du, H Zheng, L Han, X Xia, S He - Tunnelling and Underground …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study endeavors to assess the efficacy of retroreflective linear visual guiding facilities in
enhancing traffic safety within freeway tunnels. While simulation tests have traditionally …

Examining vehicle operating speeds on rural two-lane curves using naturalistic driving data

B Wang, S Hallmark, P Savolainen, J Dong - Accident Analysis & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Horizontal curves have been shown to exhibit crash rates significantly higher than
comparable tangent segments. Extensive research has investigated the causes of crashes …

New consistency model based on inertial operating speed profiles for road safety evaluation

D Llopis-Castelló, F Bella… - … engineering, Part A …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
Road crashes are mainly caused by three concurrent factors: infrastructure, vehicles, and
human factors. The interaction between infrastructure and human factors leads to the …

Determinants of speed variability on the horizontal curves of two-lane undivided rural highways passing through mountainous terrain

VABK Anna, M Chunchu - International journal of injury control and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Drivers traversing the horizontal curves are expected to complete the deceleration
manoeuvre on the tangent and transition curve and maintain a constant speed upon …

Setting the speed limit for highway horizontal curves: A revision of inferred design speed based on vehicle system dynamics

Y Chen, T Shi, S Yu, Q Shi, J He, Y Bian - Safety science, 2022 - Elsevier
An inferred design speed (IS) is the maximum vehicle speed for which all critical design
speed-related criteria are met at a particular location, which is widely recognized as an …

Reducing roadway departure crashes at horizontal curve sections on two-lane rural highways

ET Donnell, RJ Porter, L Li, I Hamilton, S Himes… - 2019 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
While several proven safety countermeasures and strategies exist to mitigate roadway
departure crashes on horizontal curve sections of two-lane rural highways, there are several …

Comparison of the highway safety manual predictive method with safety performance functions based on geometric design consistency

D Llopis-Castelló, DJ Findley… - Journal of Transportation …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Road safety is a major public health concern in our society. Effective road design and
accurate safety analyses must be a component of programs focused on reducing and …

Development of a global inertial consistency model to assess road safety on Spanish two-lane rural roads

D Llopis-Castelló, FJ Camacho-Torregrosa… - Accident Analysis & …, 2018 - Elsevier
The most important factors for road crash occurrence are infrastructure, vehicle, and human
factors. In fact, infrastructure and its interaction with human factor have been thoroughly …

Incorporating Inconsistency Patterns on Road Networks into Crash Modeling

RN Shilpa, BK Bhavathrathan - Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper expands the scope of geometric design inconsistency analysis from corridor
scales to network-wide perspectives, exploring the impact of inconsistencies' spatial …