In this paper, we aim to identify the different factors that influence injury severity of highway vehicle occupants, in particular drivers, involved in a vehicle-train collision at highway-railway grade crossings. The commonly used approach to modeling vehicle occupant injury severity is the traditional ordered response model that assumes the effect of various exogenous factors on injury severi...

This study focuses on identifying accident-prone areas and analyzing the factors contributing to distribution of traffic accidents near highway ramps. A combined method kernel density estimation, spatial autocorrelation analysis, multivariate logistic regression analysis helped identify accident hotspots. Through data collection clustering characteristics in diversion merging were identified. F...

Chinese express highway has following characteristics: incomplete control of access, divided directions, multiple lanes, heavy volume of traffic, high speed, severe lateral disturbance, etc. These lead to the highest traffic accident rate and death rate, which makes these express highways become the most unsafe highways in China. This study focuses on express highway to analysis its representat...

Highway construction zone safety has been a research focus inmany countries formany decades. In the United States, regardless of the research efforts devoted, highway construction zones remain a serious safety concern for government agencies, legislatures, the highway industry, and the traveling public. In this study, the fatal and injury accidents between 1992 and 2004 inKansas highway constru...

Increased emphasis has been placed on improving the explicit role of highway safety in making decisions on highway planning, design, and operations. This can be achieved by quantifying the safety effects of geometric design elements for various highway facilities. While great attention has been directed primarily on rural two-lane highways and to a lesser degree, on urban arterials and rural mu...

In this study, the southern expressway, which is first and lengthiest E class highway (126 km) in Sri Lanka, was analysed for roadside accident incidences. The primary objective of paper to identify best-fit interpolation techniques hotspots' most distinctive causes vehicular crashes. details were collected from Police Headquarters consisting 966 accidents that took place during period 2015 201...

Hazardous Material transportation by road is coupled with inherent risk of accidents causing loss of lives, grievous injuries, property losses and environmental damages. The most common type of hazmat road accident happens to be the releases (78%) of hazardous substances, followed by fires (28%), explosions (14%) and vapour/ gas clouds (6 %.). The paper is discussing initially the probable ‘Imp...