Citation

Ye X, Pendyala RM, Washington SP, Konduri K, Oh J. Safety Sci. 2009; 47(3): 443.

Affiliation

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State Univ, Rm ECG252, Tempe, AZ 85287-5306, USA; Dept of Highway Research, The Korea Transport Inst, 2311 Daehwa-dong, Ilsan-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 411-701, Republic of Korea (xin.ye@asu.edu)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssci.2008.06.007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Safety at roadway intersections is of significant interest to transportation professionals due to the large number of intersections in transportation networks, the complexity of traffic movements at these locations that leads to large numbers of conflicts, and the wide variety of geometric and operational features that define them. A variety of collision types including head-on, sideswipe, rear-end, and angle crashes occur at intersections. While intersection crash totals may not reveal a site deficiency, over exposure of a specific crash type may reveal otherwise undetected deficiencies. Thus, there is a need to be able to model the expected frequency of crashes by collision type at intersections to enable the detection of problems and the implementation of effective design strategies and countermeasures. Statistically, it is important to consider modeling collision type frequencies simultaneously to account for the possibility of common unobserved factors affecting crash frequencies across crash types. In this paper, a simultaneous equations model of crash frequencies by collision type is developed and presented using crash data for rural intersections in Georgia. The model estimation results support the notion of the presence of significant common unobserved factors across crash types, although the impact of these factors on parameter estimates is found to be rather modest.

Language: en