A review of the effect of traffic and weather characteristics on road safety

A Theofilatos, G Yannis - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2014 - Elsevier
Taking into consideration the increasing availability of real-time traffic data and stimulated by
the importance of proactive safety management, this paper attempts to provide a review of …

Current understanding of the effects of congestion on traffic accidents

AE Retallack, B Ostendorf - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2019 - mdpi.com
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 …

Kernel density estimation and K-means clustering to profile road accident hotspots

TK Anderson - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2009 - Elsevier
Identifying road accident hotspots is a key role in determining effective strategies for the
reduction of high density areas of accidents. This paper presents (1) a methodology using …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling the relationship of accidents to miles traveled

PP Jovanis, HL Chang - Transportation Research Record, 1986 - Citeseer
Consideration of highway safety studies in a time-space domain is used to introduce the
concept that different study designs result in different underlying probability distributions …

The effect of traffic and road characteristics on road safety: A review and future research direction

C Wang, MA Quddus, SG Ison - Safety science, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding factors affecting road accidents is an important area in road safety research.
This paper provides a review of the factors, with specific focus on traffic and road related …

Real-time estimation of accident likelihood for safety enhancement

JS Oh, C Oh, SG Ritchie, M Chang - Journal of transportation …, 2005 - ascelibrary.org
Unlike conventional traffic safety studies that focused on histrionic data analyses, this study
attempts to identify traffic conditions that might lead to a traffic accident from real-time …

Impact of traffic congestion on road accidents: A spatial analysis of the M25 motorway in England

C Wang, MA Quddus, SG Ison - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2009 - Elsevier
Traffic congestion and road accidents are two external costs of transport and the reduction of
their impacts is often one of the primary objectives for transport policy makers. The …

Relationship between crash rate and hourly traffic flow on interurban motorways

JL Martin - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper describes the relationship between crash incidence rates and hourly traffic
volume and discusses the influence of traffic on crash severity, based on observations made …

Studying the effect of weather conditions on daily crash counts using a discrete time-series model

T Brijs, D Karlis, G Wets - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2008 - Elsevier
In previous research, significant effects of weather conditions on car crashes have been
found. However, most studies use monthly or yearly data and only few studies are available …

Relationship between volume-to-capacity ratios and accident rates

M Zhou, VP Sisiopiku - Transportation research record, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
The general relationships between hourly accident rates and hourly traffic volume/capacity
(v/c) ratios were examined. A 26 km (16 mi) segment of Interstate I-94 in the Detroit area was …