Safety 2009: Security; Emergencies; Management; and School Transportation
These 16 papers cover several aspects of transportation safety. The first 3 papers are concerned with transportation safety management, including the effective usage of harmful events data, a national traffic safety index, and safety audits of two-lane rural highways. The next 8 papers address emergency evacuation and services with particular attention to the following: the safety of pedestrians during emergency egress; prioritizing patients for evacuation from a health-care facility; a strategic hurricane evacuation–dynamic traffic assignment model for Houston, Texas; evacuation planning with measure of effectiveness choices; relocation strategies of emergency medical service vehicles; optimal allocation of emergency response service units; regional emergency preparedness and mobility; and preparedness for traffic control in agricultural emergencies. The 2 papers on security discuss the security and mobility of intermodal freight networks and a vulnerability assessment methodology for the Swiss road network, respectively. The last 3 papers examine the following aspects of school transportation: operations and conflicts in drop-off–pick-up zones; the school bus routing problem in large-scale networks; and understanding and mapping elements of urban form that affect children's ability to walk and bicycle to school.
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- Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 166p
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Issue Number: 2137
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Ambulances; Bicycling; Disaster preparedness; Dynamic traffic assignment; Emergency vehicles; Evacuation; Freight transportation; Measures of effectiveness; Patients; Pedestrian safety; Routing; Rural highways; Safety audits; Safety management; School bus passengers; School buses; School children; Security; Transportation safety; Two lane highways; Walking
- Uncontrolled Terms: Agricultural emergencies; Allocation strategies; Choices; Drop off/pick up zones; Safety index; Urban form; Vulnerability assessments
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01149179
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780309142700
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 27 2010 10:18AM