Gaining a better understanding of the factors that affect the likelihood of a vehicle crash has
been an area of research focus for many decades. However, in the absence of detailed …

Traffic accidents impart both economic and social costs upon communities around the world,
hence the desire for accident rates to be reduced. For this reduction to occur, the factors …

Understanding and quantifying the effects of risk factors on crash frequency is of great
importance for developing cost-effective safety countermeasures. In this paper, the effects of …

The analysis of highway-crash data has long been used as a basis for influencing highway
and vehicle designs, as well as directing and implementing a wide variety of regulatory …

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Praise for the Second Edition: The second edition introduces an especially broad set of …

4.1 Tyre tread depth 4.2 Studded tyres 4.3 Antilock braking systems (ABS) and disc brakes
4.4 High-mounted stop lamps 4.5 Daytime running lights for cars 4.6 Daytime running lights …

This study develops a Bayesian spatial generalized ordered logit model with conditional
autoregressive priors to examine severity of freeway crashes. Our model can simultaneously …

In recent years there have been numerous studies that have sought to understand the
factors that determine the frequency of accidents on roadway segments over some period of …

Many transportation agencies use accident frequencies, and statistical models of accidents
frequencies, as a basis for prioritizing highway safety improvements. However, the use of …

This paper examines the relationship between traffic fatality risk and per capita income and
uses it to forecast traffic fatalities by geographic region. Equations for the road death rate …