Assessing the Performance of Highway Safety Manual (HSM) Predictive Models for Brazilian Multilane Highways

OBB Mendes, APC Larocca, K Rodrigues Silva… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper assesses the performance of Highway Safety Manual (HSM) predictive models
when applied to Brazilian highways. The study evaluates five rural multilane highways and …

[HTML][HTML] Highway planning and design in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau of China: a cost–safety balance perspective

C Li, L Ding, B Zhong - Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Engineering designs for mountainous highways emphasize compliance checking to ensure
safety. However, relying solely on compliance checking may lead designers to minimize …

Estimating safety performance functions for two-lane rural roads using an alternative functional form for traffic volume

VV Gayah, ET Donnell - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021 - Elsevier
Statistical models of expected crash frequency are referred to as Safety Performance
Functions (SPFs) in the first edition of the American Association of State Highway and …

Copula-based bivariate count data regression models for simultaneous estimation of crash counts based on severity and number of vehicles

N Ahmad, VV Gayah, ET Donnell - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2023 - Elsevier
Statistical models of crash frequency typically apply univariate regression models to
estimate total crash frequency or crash counts by various categories. However, a possible …

Crash analysis and development of safety performance functions for Florida roads in the framework of the context classification system

M Abdel-Aty, Q Cai - Journal of safety research, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction: Safety performance functions (SPF) are employed to predict crash counts at the
different roadway elements. Several SPFs were developed for the various roadway …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity analysis of the calibration factor resulting from the application of the HSM predictive method to Italian rural two-lane, two-way roads. The Emilia …

C Giusto, E Toraldo, M Ketabdari, A Antoniazzi - Results in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the adoption of predictive methods for road safety in the
Italian context. The main goal of predictive methods is to describe safety performances of a …

[HTML][HTML] Determining the Safety Level of State Roads: An Italian Case Study

M Pernetti, A Antoniazzi, M Ketabdari, M Crispino… - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study aims to establish an effective approach for evaluating the safety performance of
road infrastructure. Road safety levels are typically quantified using safety performance …

Examining the impacts of crash data aggregation on SPF estimation

A Sengupta, VV Gayah, ET Donnell - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Highway
Safety Manual (HSM) includes a collection of safety performance functions (SPFs) or …

[HTML][HTML] Rule-based safety prediction models for rural two-lane run-off-road crashes

S Das, X Sun, M Sun - International journal of transportation science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract During 2015–2017, the yearly average of fatalities caused by roadway departure
(RwD) crashes was 19,233 in the US Roadway departure crashes, or crashes in which a …