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Transportation Engineering

University of Central Florida

2011

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Evaluation And Modeling Of The Safety Of Open Road Tolling System, Muamer Ali Abuzwidah Jan 2011

Evaluation And Modeling Of The Safety Of Open Road Tolling System, Muamer Ali Abuzwidah

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The goal of this thesis is to examine the traffic safety impact of upgrading Toll Plazas (TP) to Open Road Tolling (ORT). The ORT could enhance safety but could also pose some traffic safety concerns at Toll plazas. Crashes from eight years were investigated by evaluating the crash data before and after the implementation of the ORT. The study was conducted by using two approaches: 1) a simple before and after study and with a comparison group; 2) a modeling effort to help understand the relationship between the crash frequency and several important factors and circumstances such as injury severity, …