How to incorporate accident severity and vehicle occupancy into the hot spot identification process?

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2102, 2009, Pages 53-60

  Miranda Moreno, Luis F ^a   Fu, Liping ^b   Ukkusuri, Satish ^c   Lord, Dominique ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCIDENT FREQUENCY; ACCIDENT RISKS; ACCIDENT SEVERITY; ANALYSIS FRAMEWORKS; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; HOT SPOT IDENTIFICATION; IDENTIFICATION PROCESS; UNCERTAINTY; VEHICLE OCCUPANCIES;

RISK ANALYSIS;

EID: 76249091255     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2102-07     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Schluter, P. J., J. J. Deely, and A. J. Nicholson. Ranking and Selecting Motor Vehicle Accident Sites by Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Model. Statistician, Vol.46, No.3, 1997, pp. 293-316.
2. Heydecker, B. G., and J. Wu. Identification of Sites for Accident Remedial Work by Bayesian Statistical Methods: An Example of Uncertain Inference. Advances in Engineering Software, Vol.32, 2001, pp. 859-869.
3. Hauer, E., J. Kononov, B. Allery, and M. S. Griffith. Screening the Road Network for Sites with Promise. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.1784, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2002, pp. 27-32.
4. Hauer, E., and B. N. Persaud. How to Estimate the Safety of Rail- Highway Grade Crossings and the Safety Effects of Warning Devices. In Transportation Research Record 1114, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 131-140.
5. Persaud, B., C. Lyon, and T. Nguyen. Empirical Bayes Procedure for Ranking Sites for Safety Investigation by Potential for Safety Improvement. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.1665, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 7-12.
6. Miaou, S. P., and J. J. Song. Bayesian Ranking of Sites for Engineering Safety Improvement: Decision Parameter, Treatability Concept, Statistical Criterion and Spatial Dependence. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.37, 2005, pp. 699-720.
7. Miranda-Moreno, L. F., L. Fu, F. F. Saccomanno, and A. Labbe. Alternative Risk Models for Ranking Locations for Safety Improvement. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.1908, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2005, pp. 1-8.
8. Cheng, W., and S. P. Washington. Experimental Evaluation of Hotspot Identification Methods. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.37, 2005, pp. 870-881.
9. Nassar, S., F. F. Saccomanno, and J. H. Shortreed. Disaggregate Analysis of Road Accident Severities. International Journal of Impact Engineering, Vol.15, No.6, 1994, pp. 815-826.
10. Saccomanno, F. F., L. Fu, and L. F. Miranda-Moreno. Risk-Based Model for Identifying Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Blackspots. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.1862, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2004, pp. 127-135.
11. Milton, J. C., V. N. Shankar, and F. L. Mannering. Highway Accident Severities and the Mixed Logit Model: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.40, 2008, pp. 260-266.
12. Eluru, N., C. R. Bhat, and D. A. Hensher. A Mixed Generalized Ordered Response Model for Examining Pedestrian and Bicyclist Injury Severity Level in Traffic Crashes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.40, No.3, 2008, pp. 1033-1054.
13. Park, E. S., and D. Lord. Multivariate Poisson-Lognormal Models for Jointly Modeling Crash Frequency by Severity. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.2019, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp. 1-6.
14. Levine, N., and M. Wachs. Factors Affecting Vehicle Occupancy Measurement. Transportation Research A, Vol.32, No.3, 1998, pp. 215-229.
15. Zaloshnja, E., T. Miller, F. Council, and B. Persaud. Crash Cost in the United States by Crash Geometry. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.38, 2006, pp. 644-651.
16. Miranda-Moreno, L. F., A. Labbe, and L. Fu. Multiple Bayesian Testing Procedures for Selecting Hazardous Sites. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.39, No.6, 2007, pp. 1192-1201.
17. Lord, D., and L. F. Miranda-Moreno. Effects of Low Sample Mean Values and Small Sample Sizes on the Dispersion Parameter Estimation of Poisson-Gamma Models for Modeling Motor Vehicle Crashes: A Bayesian Perspective. Safety Science, Vol.46, No.5, 2008, pp. 751-770.
18. Miranda-Moreno, L. F. Statistical Models and Methods for Identifying Hazardous Locations for Safety Improvements. PhD thesis. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2006.
19. Fu, L., F. Saccomanno, L. F. Miranda-Moreno, and P. Y.-J. Park. GradeX: Decision Support Tool for Hot Spot Identification and Countermeasure Analysis of Highway-Railway Grade Crossings. Presented at 86th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2007.