INVENTORY SPEED RESPONSES AND PRIOR TRAFFIC RECORDS AS PREDICTORS OF SUBSEQUENT TRAFFIC RECORDS

MANY TRAFFIC AUTHORITIES CONSIDER HIGH SPEED DRIVING TO BE A MAJOR PROBLEM OF TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ONE OF THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. INTERPRETATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL DRIVING RECORDS AND MASS STATISTICS PROVIDE THE BASIS OF NUMEROUS IMPORTANT DECISIONS IN PROGRAMS OF DRIVER IMPROVEMENTS AND TRAFFIC SAFETY. UNDERLYING THESE EFFORTS OF AUTHORITIES IS THE BROAD ASSUMPTION THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OR HABITS OF THE DRIVING BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUALS ARE PREDICTABLE TO A CONSIDERABLE EXTENT FROM PREVIOUS PERFORMANCE. THEREFORE, THE QUESTION IS WHETHER SIMPLE, YET ACCURATE, PREDICTIONS OF FUTURE INDIVIDUAL TRAFFIC RECORDS CAN BE DEVELOPED WHICH COULD BE USEFUL IN VARIOUS TRAFFIC SAFETY AND ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS. /AUTHOR/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • No 240, pp 53-56, 3 TAB Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Case, Harry W
  • Stewart, Roger G
• Publication Date: 1960

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 4p
• Monograph Title: Highway accident studies
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Bulletin
  • Issue Number: 240
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Crash investigation; Driver performance; Drivers; Expressways; Fatalities; Forecasting; Personnel performance; Prevention; Records management; Safety; Speed; Statistics; Traffic crashes; Traffic law enforcement; Traffic safety; Urban highways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents; Records
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220259
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 12 1994 12:00AM