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2013

Traffic safety

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A Visualization Tool For A Highway Safety Management System, Indira Khanal, Naveen Veeramisti, Justin Baker, Alexander Paz Apr 2013

A Visualization Tool For A Highway Safety Management System, Indira Khanal, Naveen Veeramisti, Justin Baker, Alexander Paz

College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs

  • With lot of research, Federal Highway Administration
    has released a highway Safety management System
    software called as SafetyAnalyst (SA)
  • SA has a suite of analytical tools to identify and
    manage system-wide safety improvements:
    Network Screening
    Diagnosis and Countermeasure Selection
    Economic Analyses and priority Ranking
    Countermeasure Evaluation
  • SA provides a very rudimentary approach to display
    results just in tabular and textual format
  • This study proposes a visualization tool that expands
    the output capabilities provided by SafetyAnalyst


Police Injury Crashes And The Intersections Of Policy, Technology, And Culture, Carol Servino Apr 2013

Police Injury Crashes And The Intersections Of Policy, Technology, And Culture, Carol Servino

Graduate Research Symposium (GCUA) (2010 - 2017)

Motor vehicle crashes caused the majority fatalities to police officers in the U. S. for more than a decade, yet little is known about factors contributing to injury crashes. This research project required original data collection. A national survey of police chiefs in state, county, and local agencies of all sizes was conducted online in June and July, 2012. Questions focused on various driving policies and practices, including those related to communication technology commonly used in police patrol vehicles. Other questions included hypothetical situations to explore the culture of driving safety in individual police organizations. The majority of chiefs clearly …