In-vehicle warnings for work zone and related rear-end collisions: A driving simulator experiment

J Hang, X Yan, X Li, K Duan - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
Work zone area on roads is a critical component of road networks which concerns the safety
of workers and passing by drivers. However, the passive speed reduction and lane changes …

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 …

Investigating the risk factors associated with injury severity in pedestrian crashes in Santiago, Chile

A Rampinelli, JF Calderón, CA Blazquez… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pedestrians are vulnerable road users that are directly exposed to road traffic crashes with
high odds of resulting in serious injuries and fatalities. Therefore, there is a critical need to …

Self-paced ensemble-SHAP approach for the classification and interpretation of crash severity in work zone areas

R Asadi, A Khattak, H Vashani, HR Almujibah, H Rabie… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The identification of causative factors and implementation of measures to mitigate work zone
crashes can significantly improve overall road safety. This study introduces a Self-Paced …

A holistic approach to exploring the root factors of work zone accidents

B Chammout, MO Ahmed, I El-adaway… - Journal of Management …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Work zones are crucial for infrastructure maintenance and improvement. However, ongoing
projects within work zones sometimes can place workers and drivers in dangerous …

Analyzing the time-varying patterns of contributing factors in work zone-related crashes

S Das, A Dutta, R Tamakloe… - Journal of Transportation …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Work zones are crucial for maintaining and enhancing road infrastructure, but they also pose
a significant risk to traffic safety. Between 2016 and 2020, work zone-related crashes in the …

The driving risk analysis and evaluation in rightward zone of expressway reconstruction and extension engineering

C Zhang, B Wang, S Yang, M Zhang… - Journal of advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the expressway reconstruction and expansion engineering, the form of rightward zone is
increasingly adopted, and its complicated traffic conditions can easily cause traffic accidents …

Applying the heteroskedastic ordered probit model on injury severity for improved age and gender estimation

A Nickkar, S Pourfalatoun, EE Miller… - Traffic injury …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Driver characteristics have been linked to the frequency and severity of car
crashes. Among these, age and gender have been shown to impact both the possibility and …

Analysis of temporal stability of contributing factors to truck-involved crashes at work zones in South Carolina

F Ahmed, CKA Siddiqui… - Transportation research …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines factors that contributed to truck-involved work zone crash injury in
South Carolina, a state which experienced a rise in the number of injury crashes from 2014 …

An Integrated Approach to Capture Construction Workers' Response towards Safety Alarms using Wearable Sensors and Virtual Reality

Z Zou, SD Bernardes, A Kurkcu, S Ergan, K Ozbay - 2020 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
Despite the continuous efforts from federal and state agencies to improve safety at traffic
work zones, incidents continue to occur, resulting in 675 fatalities in the US during the last …