Investigation of Interaction between Traffic Safety, Law Enforcement and Environment

For highways located in different counties and cities across the country, specific conditions of weather, terrain, traffic characteristics, highway conditions, population and economic development are all different. Driving environments, traffic accidents and injury risks have strong interactions, which have not been fully explored. To effectively mitigate traffic accidents and injury severity on these highways, both rational risk prediction and law enforcement efforts are important. This study conducts an investigation on interactions between those traffic accidents, various driving environments and also mitigation efforts, such as law enforcement. This study began with a literature review on state-of-the-art traffic accident prediction and mitigation. A comprehensive historical data analysis of traffic accidents in Colorado was conducted. Insights were given about interactions between traffic safety, critical variables, and terrain conditions. By developing advanced traffic accident frequency and injury severity prediction models, trends of two major interstate highways and of the entire state’s highways could be discussed. Due to the lack of site-specific law enforcement data, the study related to law enforcement is still preliminary and focuses on a review study of existing law enforcement efforts in the United States.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=856
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Colorado State University, Fort Collins

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Fort Collins, CO  United States  80525

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Chen, Feng
  • Ma, Xiaoxiang
  • Chen, Suren
• Publication Date: 2016-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 55p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash risk forecasting; Data analysis; Injury severity; Law enforcement; Literature reviews; State of the art; Surface course (Pavements); Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Weather conditions
• Geographic Terms: Colorado
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Law; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01616910
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC 16-311
• Contract Numbers: Project 380
• Files: UTC, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 21 2016 1:26PM