Truck and bus safety ; roundabouts.

"TRB's Transportation research record: journal of the transportation rsearch board, No. 2517 consists of ten papers that examine the following issues; exploring the nature and severity of heavy truck crashes in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates investigating temporal effects on truck acciden...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 2015.
Series:Transportation research record ; 2517.
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Online Access:Free access for TRB sponsors only
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Table of Contents:
  • Exploring the nature and severity of heavy truck crashes in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / Hany M. Hassan, Nuha M. Albusaeedi, Atef M. Garib, and Hussain A. Al-Harthei
  • Investigating temporal effects on truck accident occurrences in Manhattan, New York City / Robyn Marquis and Xiaokun (Cara) Wang
  • Machine learning for recognizing driving patterns of drivers of large commercial trucks / Chen Chen and Yuanchange Xie
  • Safety impacts of access management features near roundabouts / Priyanka Alluri, Albert Gan, Andres Diaz, and Ruth Steiner
  • Multicriteria assessment of crosswalk location in urban roundabout corridors / Paulo Fernandes, Tânia Fontes, Sérgio Ramos Pereira, Nagui M. Rouphail, and Margarida C. Coelho
  • Simplified method for comparing emissions in roundabouts and at signalized intersectrions / Katy Salamati, Nagui M. Rouphail, H. Christopher Frey, Bin Liu, and Bastian J. Schroeder
  • Estimation of roundabout entry capacity that considers conflict with pedestrians / Nan Kang and Hideki nakamura
  • Capacity estimation on turboroundabouts with gap acceptance and flow level methods / Lambertus G. H. Fortuijn and Serge P. Hoogendoorn
  • Simulation study of truck traffic at single-lane roundabouts with and without slip lanes / Majed Al-Ghandour
  • Impact of including exiting vehicles in single-lane roundabout capacity models / Wonho Suh, Christina Barry, Laura Schmitt, James Anderson, Michael E. Rodgers, and Michael Hunter.