Tools for Assessing Safety Impact of Long-Range Transportation Plans

The evaluation and comparison of alternative long-range transportation plans should include the safety implications of respective plans. However, the commonly available tools/models for safety analysis, specifically crash prediction models, require detailed information that is not generated by travel forecasting models. Therefore, transportation planners need simplified crash prediction models based on variables for which long-range forecasts are available, and this paper examines the availability of such models. The difficulties of developing simple crash prediction models encountered by the authors and future directions for research are discussed.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Chatterjee, Arun
  • Wegmann, Frederick J
  • Everett, Jerry D
  • Protopapas, Annie
• Conference:
  • Eighth National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities
  • Location: Cincinnatti OH, United States
  • Date: 2002-9-18 to 2002-9-20
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: Eighth National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities, September 18-20, 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Crash risk forecasting; Evaluation; Highway safety; Impact studies; Impacts; Long range planning; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01045211
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 30 2007 7:02AM