Hazardous materials serious truck crash analysis: phase II insights
This paper, was developed from a research project conducted for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) designed to: (1) enhance the current methodology for identifying and characterizing serious hazardous materials (HM) truck crashes in the U.S. and (2) support HM truck transportation safety and risk reduction for packages, vehicles, and drivers. Crash analyses focused on developing associations between impact measures and explanatory variables serious crashes, and crashes resulting in spills, fatalities, and injuries. Explanatory variables included vehicle, driver, packaging, infrastructure, and situational characteristics. One representative result is that the spill-to-crash ratio is significantly higher for rollover events than for other crash types. The data also show that the spill-to-crash ratio increases for cargo tanks as their loading increases, with fully loaded tanks resulting in spills 34 percent of the time.
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Authors:
- Greenberg, A
- Abkowitz, M
- Blower, D
- Lepofsky, M
- McSweeney, T
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- Publication Date: 2005
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 457-66
- Monograph Title: Final proceedings: International Truck and Bus Safety and Security Symposium, November 14-16, 2005, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash rates; Data analysis; Freight transportation; Hazardous materials; Loads; Overturning; Traffic crashes; Trucks; Vehicle safety
- Uncontrolled Terms: Road safety (engineering and vehicles)
- ATRI Terms: Crash rate; Data analysis; Freight transport; Hazardous goods; Load; Overturning; Traffic crash; Truck; Vehicle safety
- ITRD Terms: 8122: USA
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01388670
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 23 2012 1:11AM