Analysis of Injury and Fatal Crashes in Highway Construction Zones

This paper presents a comprehensive data analysis of recent highway construction zone crashes in the state of Illinois to provide a better understanding of the characteristics of these crashes in order to identify effective safety measures to improve construction zone layouts. The two main research objectives of this data analysis are to (1) analyze the frequency and severity of work zone crashes; and (2) investigate probable causes and contributing factors of these work zone crashes. To accomplish these objectives, two main research tasks were performed that focused on: (a) gathering the most recent and comprehensive set of data and reports on highway construction zone crashes in Illinois; and (b) studying the correlation among all construction zone crash variables that are available in the gathered data to investigate probable causes and contributing factors of this type of highway crashes.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Elghamrawy, Tarek
  • El-Rayes, Khaled
  • Liu, Liang Y
• Conference:
  • Construction Research Congress 2010. Innovation for Reshaping Construction Practice
  • Location: Banff Alberta, Canada
  • Date: 2010-5-8 to 2010-5-10
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 568-577
• Monograph Title: Construction Research Congress 2010. Innovation for Reshaping Construction Practice. 2 Volumes

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash data; Crash injuries; Fatalities; Injury severity; Road construction; Traffic crashes; Work zone safety; Work zone traffic control
• Geographic Terms: Illinois
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01163888
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411094
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 23 2010 11:59AM