
Measuring Road Safety with Surrogate Events
Description
Key Features
- Consolidates the latest updates/ideas from disparate places into a single resource
- Establishes a consistent use of key terms, definitions and concepts to help codify this emerging field
- Contains numerous application-oriented case studies throughout
- Includes learning aids, such as chapter objectives, a glossary, and links to data used in examples
Readership
Transportation researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in traffic safety, traffic behavior, and civil engineering
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Crashes in Safety Analysis
3. Traffic Conflicts as Crash Surrogates
4. Techniques and Technologies of Observing Traffic Conflicts
5. Studies on the Conflict-Crash Relationship
6. Probabilistic Connection of Traffic Conflicts with Crashes
7. Estimating Crash Frequency from Traffic Conflicts
8. Challenges and Treatments in Estimating Crash Frequency
9. Road Departures - Driving Simulator Study
10. Right Angle Collisions - A Lesson Learned
11. Rear-End Collisions - Naturalistic Driving Study
12. Traffic Conflicts of Autonomous Vehicles
13. Summary and Future Research Directions
Product details
- No. of pages: 252
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: November 5, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128105047
- eBook ISBN: 9780128105054
About the Author
Andrew Tarko
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