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Reading List

General References

  • Ogden , K.W. (1996) Safer Roads: A Guide to Road Safety Engineering. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1996.
  • The Traffic Safety Toolbox: A Primer of Traffic Safety. (1999) ITE.
  • Fricke. L. (1990) Traffic Accident Reconstruction: Volume 2 of the Traffic Accident Investigation Manual. Northwestern University Traffic Institute. 1 st Edition.
  • Cameron , C.A. and Trivedi .P. K. (1998). Regression Analysis of Count Data. Econometric Society Monographs No. 30, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Washington , S.P., Karlaftis, .M.G., and Mannering, F.L., (2003) Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis. Chapman & Hall/CRC New York.
  • Hauer, E. Observational Before-After Studies in Road Safety, Hauer, E. Observational Before-After Studies in Road Safety. Elvsevier Science Ltd. 1997
  • Faraway. J. Extending the Linear Model with R: Generalized Linear, Mixed Effects and NonParametric Regression Models. (2006). Chapman & Hall/CRC New York.
  • A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets (2001). American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington D.C.
  • Roadside Design Guide . (2002) American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington D.C
  • PDF Special Report 214: Designing Safer Roads: Practices for Resurfacing, Restoration, and Rehabilitation. TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1987. http://trb.org/publications/sr/sr214/sr214_001_fm.pdf .

Fundamentals

  • PDF *Hedlund, J. (editor) Improving Traffic Safety Culture in the United States – The Journey Forward. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2007
  • PDF Hauer, E. (1999) “ Overview ” The Traffic Safety Toolbox: A Primer of Traffic Safety. ITE. pp xi-vvi.
  • PDF *Elvik, R. (2006). Laws of Accident Causation. Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol 38, pp-742-747
  • PDF Smiley, A. (2006) NCHRP 17-27, Draft HSM Materials, Chapter 2 Fundamentals – Human Factors. Unpublished. (see appripriate section)
  • PDF Identification of Liability-Related Impediments to Sharing 409 Safety Data Among Transportation Agencies And A Synthesis Of Best Practices . NCHRP Research Results Digest 306. 2006
  • PDF Delucia, B. and B. Scopatz. (2005) Crash Records Systems. NCHRP Synthesis 350. 2005.
  • PDF*Ogle, J. Technologies for Improving Safety Data: A Synthesis of Highway Practice. NCHRP Synthesis 367, TRB, 2007.
  • PDF Preusser, D. Public Information and Education in the Promotion of Highway Safety. NCHRP Research Results Digest 322, TRB, 2007

 Defining Safety Performance

  • PDF Venables, W.N. and D.M. Smith. (2006) An Introduction to R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics Version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) Notes on R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics
  • PDF Miaou, S.P. and Lum, H. (1993) Modeling Vehicle Accidents and Highway Geometric Design Relationship. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 25, No. 6, p. 689-709.
  • PDF Lord, D., Washington, S. P., and Ivan, J. N. (2005). "Poisson, Poisson-Gamma and Zero-Inflated Regression Models of Motor Vehicle Crashes: Balancing Statistical Fit and Theory." Accident Analysis and Prevention, 37, p. 35-46.
  • PDF Shankar, V., Mannering F., and Barfield, W. (1995) Effects of Roadway Geometrics and Environmental Factors on Rural Freeway Accident Frequencies. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 27, No. 3, p. 371-389.
  • PDF Vogt, A., and J. Bared. (1998) Accident Models for Two-Lane Rural Segments and Intersections. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1635, TRB, National Research Council. Washington, D.C., pp. 18 – 29.

 Safety Management

  • PDF Hauer, E. (1996). Identification of Sites with Promise. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1542, TRB, National Research Council. Washington, D.C., pp. 54-60.
  • PDF Hauer, E., Harwood, D., Council, F.M., and Griffith, M.S. (2002) Estimating Safety by the Empirical Bayes Method. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1784, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 126-131.
  • PDF Hauer, E., J. Kononov, B. Allery, and M. S. Griffith. (2002) Screening the Road Network for Sites with Promise. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1784, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2002, pp. 27 – 32.
  • PDF Monsere, C., P. Bosa., R.L. Bertini.  “ Combining Climate, Crash, and Highway Data for Improved Ranking of Speed and Winter-Weather Related Crash Locations in Oregon. ” Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (Submitted December 2006)
  • PDF Hauer, E. (2005) “ Fishing for Safety Information in Murky Waters. ” Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 131, Issue 5, pp. 340-344.
  • PDF Hauer, E. (1994) “ Is it Better to be Dead than Stuck in Traffic", Transportation Research A Volume 28A, No. 25, pp. 109-118 .
  • PDF F. Council, E. Zaloshnja, T. Miller, B. Persaud. Crash Cost Estimates by Maximum Police-Reported Injury Severity Within Selected Crash Geometries Cost of Crashes. Publication NO. FHWA-HRT-05-05. 2005 1