Research vs. Practice: An International Review of Challenges and Opportunities of Crash Prediction Models

Over the past ten years, crash prediction models (CPMs) have become the fundamental tools of quantitative road safety management. However, there is a gap between state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice, with the practical applications lagging behind scientific progress. This motivated the review of international experience with CPMs from the practitioner perspective. The main conclusions suggest the need to promote awareness of CPM benefits to road safety strategy and evaluation, policy and programs development, and in guidance development. The paper presents ways to better communicate choice of modelling techniques, CPM results and their practical applications, such as easy-to-use practitioner tools or mapping visualisations.

• Record URL:
  • http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Extended abstract only
• Authors:
  • Ambros, J
  • Jurewicz, C
  • Turner, S
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 2017, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
• Publication Date: 2017-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 3p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2017 Australasian Road Safety Conference, 10-12 October, Perth, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Crashes; Highway safety; Highway traffic control; Publicity; Safety; Standardization
• Uncontrolled Terms: International comparison; Policy and planning
• ATRI Terms: Crash analysis; International comparison; Road safety; Standardization; Traffic management
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 132: Forecast
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01661798
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2018 10:06AM