A review of spatial approaches in road safety

A Ziakopoulos, G Yannis - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Spatial analyses of crashes have been adopted in road safety for decades in order to
determine how crashes are affected by neighboring locations, how the influence of …

Risk analysis and assessment methodologies in the work sites: On a review, classification and comparative study of the scientific literature of the period 2000–2009

PK Marhavilas, D Koulouriotis, V Gemeni - Journal of Loss Prevention in …, 2011 - Elsevier
The objective of this work is to determine and study, analyze and elaborate, classify and
categorize the main risk analysis and risk-assessment methods and techniques by …

Traffic violations in Guangdong Province of China: Speeding and drunk driving

G Zhang, KKW Yau, X Gong - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2014 - Elsevier
The number of speeding-and drunk driving-related injuries in China surged in the years
immediately preceding 2004 and then began to decline. However, the percent decrease in …

Sensitivity analysis in the context of regional safety modeling: Identifying and assessing the modifiable areal unit problem

P Xu, H Huang, N Dong, M Abdel-Aty - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2014 - Elsevier
A wide array of spatial units has been explored in current regional safety analysis. Since
traffic crashes exhibit extreme spatiotemporal heterogeneity which has rarely been a …

Assessing the extent of modifiable areal unit problem in modelling freight (trip) generation: Relationship between zone design and model estimation results

A Pani, PK Sahu, A Chandra, AK Sarkar - Journal of Transport Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest in incorporating spatial indicators into freight demand model
systems. The indicators are measured for different areal units (eg, census tracts or block …

Using geographical information systems to organize police patrol routes effectively by grouping hotspots of crash and crime data

PF Kuo, D Lord, TD Walden - Journal of Transport Geography, 2013 - Elsevier
Applying Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) can help police
departments allocate limited resources more efficiently. By focusing on hazardous areas …

Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance

N Obradovich, D Tingley… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Human workers ensure the functioning of governments around the world. The efficacy of
human workers, in turn, is linked to the climatic conditions they face. Here we show that the …

The effect of traffic tickets on road traffic crashes

R Factor - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2014 - Elsevier
Road traffic crashes are globally a leading cause of death. The current study tests the effect
of traffic tickets issued to drivers on subsequent crashes, using a unique dataset that …

Cross-sectional study of road accidents and related law enforcement efficiency for 10 countries: a gap coherence analysis

Y Urie, NR Velaga, A Maji - Traffic injury prevention, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Road crashes are considered as the eighth leading causes of death. There is a
wide disparity in crash severity and law enforcement efficiency among low-, medium-, and …

Spatial correlation in multilevel crash frequency models: Effects of different neighboring structures

J Aguero-Valverde, PP Jovanis - Transportation Research …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research has shown the importance of spatial correlation in road crash models.
Because many different spatial correlation structures are possible, however, this study tested …