Work zone safety analysis and modeling: a state-of-the-art review

H Yang, K Ozbay, O Ozturk, K Xie - Traffic injury prevention, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Work zone safety is one of the top priorities for transportation agencies. In recent
years, a considerable volume of research has sought to determine work zone crash …

Evaluation of rear-end crash risk at work zone using work zone traffic data

Q Meng, J Weng - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper aims to evaluate the rear-end crash risk at work zone activity area and merging
area, as well as analyze the impacts of contributing factors by using work zone traffic data …

Managing Work Zone Safety during Road Maintenance and Construction Activities: Challenges and Opportunities

AJ Al-Bayati, M Ali, C Nnaji - Practice Periodical on Structural …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
In the US, hundreds of people lose their lives each year, and many more are injured, in
street and highway maintenance and construction work zones. The Occupational Safety and …

Study of work zone traffic safety under adverse driving conditions with a microscopic traffic simulation approach

G Hou, S Chen - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Work zone traffic safety under adverse weather conditions has been a serious concern for
drivers and transportation agencies. Existing studies on work zone traffic safety with …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring the causal effect of work zones on crashes: Methodology and a case study

Z Zhang, B Akinci, S Qian - Analytic methods in accident research, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing number of crashes occurring in work zones has received considerable
attention in recent years. Previous studies have mainly focused on associations between …

Severity modeling of work zone crashes in New Jersey using machine learning models

AS Hasan, MAB Kabir, M Jalayer… - Journal of Transportation …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In the United States, the probability of work zone crashes has increased due to an
increase in renovation works by transportation infrastructures. The severity of work zone …

Modeling work zone crash frequency by quantifying measurement errors in work zone length

H Yang, K Ozbay, O Ozturk, M Yildirimoglu - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2013 - Elsevier
Work zones are temporary traffic control zones that can potentially cause safety problems.
Maintaining safety, while implementing necessary changes on roadways, is an important …

[HTML][HTML] A temporal investigation of crash severity factors in worker-involved work zone crashes: Random parameters and machine learning approaches

S Mokhtarimousavi, JC Anderson, M Hadi… - Transportation research …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the context of work zone safety, worker presence and its impact on crash severity has
been less explored. Moreover, there is a lack of research on contributing factors by time-of …

Crash frequency modeling for highway construction zones

O Ozturk, K Ozbay, H Yang, B Bartin - 2013 - trid.trb.org
Throughout the country, work zone safety issues have received considerable attention in
recent years due to increasing work zone crashes along numerous highway renovation and …

Statistical comparisons of the crash characteristics on highways between construction time and non-construction time

TG Jin, M Saito, DL Eggett - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2008 - Elsevier
Many studies in the past reported that crash frequencies during construction time were
higher than during non-construction time at the same highway sections. A question was …