Statistical methods and highway safety performance 2012.

" TRB ' s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2279 consists of 15 papers that explore rule-based forecasting of traffic flow; household automobile and motorcycle ownership; path-based algorithms; effects of gasoline price and miles traveled on...

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Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2012.
Series:Transportation research record ; 2279.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rule-based forecasting of traffic flow for large-scale road networks
  • Household automobile and motorcycle ownership analyzed with random parameters bivariate ordered probit model
  • Path-based algorithms to solve C-Logit stochastic user equilibrium assignment problem
  • Extension of negative binomial GARCH model: analyzing effects of gasoline price and miles traveled on fatal crashes involving intoxicated drivers in Texas
  • Quantile effects of causal factors on crash distributions
  • Statistical test for 85th and 15th percentile speeds with asymptotic distribution of sample quantiles
  • Use of computer vision to identify pedestrians' nonconforming behavior at urban intersections
  • Crash modification factors: foundational issues
  • Sensitivity analysis of data set sizes for highway safety manual calibration factors
  • Calibration of highway safety manual safety performance function: development of new models for rural two-lane two-way highways
  • Assessing international transferability of highway safety manual crash prediction algorithm and its components
  • Estimation of safety effectiveness of composite shoulders on rural two-lane highways
  • Crash modification factors for changes to left-turn phasing
  • Relationship between freeway flow parameters and safety and its implication for adding lanes
  • Horizontal curves, signs, and safety.