A review of spatial approaches in road safety

A Ziakopoulos, G Yannis - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Spatial analyses of crashes have been adopted in road safety for decades in order to
determine how crashes are affected by neighboring locations, how the influence of …

The built environment and traffic safety: a review of empirical evidence

R Ewing, E Dumbaugh - Journal of Planning Literature, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The article reaches two conclusions counter to accepted transportation engineering theory.
First, the traffic environments of dense urban areas appear to be safer than the lower-volume …

Analysis of hourly crash likelihood using unbalanced panel data mixed logit model and real-time driving environmental big data

F Chen, S Chen, X Ma - Journal of safety research, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Driving environment, including road surface conditions and traffic states, often
changes over time and influences crash probability considerably. It becomes stretched for …

Injury severities of truck drivers in single-and multi-vehicle accidents on rural highways

F Chen, S Chen - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2011 - Elsevier
In adverse driving conditions, such as inclement weather and/or complex terrain, trucks are
often involved in single-vehicle (SV) accidents in addition to multi-vehicle (MV) accidents …

Pedestrian safety and the built environment: a review of the risk factors

P Stoker, A Garfinkel-Castro… - Journal of Planning …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety,
particularly in view of the fact that about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic …

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 …

Spatial analysis of fatal and injury crashes in Pennsylvania

J Aguero-Valverde, PP Jovanis - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2006 - Elsevier
Using injury and fatal crash data for Pennsylvania for 1996–2000, full Bayes (FB)
hierarchical models (with spatial and temporal effects and space–time interactions) are …

Modelling area-wide count outcomes with spatial correlation and heterogeneity: An analysis of London crash data

MA Quddus - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2008 - Elsevier
Count models such as negative binomial (NB) regression models are normally employed to
establish a relationship between area-wide traffic crashes and the contributing factors. Since …

Diagnostic analysis of the logistic model for pedestrian injury severity in traffic crashes

NN Sze, SC Wong - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2007 - Elsevier
This study attempts to evaluate the injury risk of pedestrian casualties in traffic crashes and
to explore the factors that contribute to mortality and severe injury, using the comprehensive …

Multivariate crash modeling for motor vehicle and non-motorized modes at the macroscopic level

J Lee, M Abdel-Aty, X Jiang - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2015 - Elsevier
Macroscopic traffic crash analyses have been conducted to incorporate traffic safety into
long-term transportation planning. This study aims at develo** a multivariate Poisson …