For the last decade, disaggregate modeling approach has been frequently practiced to analyze truck-involved crash injury severity. This included truck-involved crashes based on single and … [Read more...] about Assessment of Commercial Truck Driver Injury Severity Based on Truck Configuration Along a Mountainous Roadway Using Hierarchical Bayesian Random Intercept Approach
Truck Crashes
Injury Severity of Truck-Involved Crashes in Work Zones on Rural and Urban Highways: Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity
Truck-related crashes in the work zones always resulted in severe injury outcomes. This paper analyses the injury severity of truck-involved crashes in the work zones based on a ten-year (2005–2014) … [Read more...] about Injury Severity of Truck-Involved Crashes in Work Zones on Rural and Urban Highways: Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity
Analysis of Fatal Truck-Involved Work Zone Crashes in Florida: Application of Tree-Based Models
This paper presents the results of an analysis focusing on large truck-involved work zone fatal crashes using seven-year crash data in the State of Florida. Decision tree/random forest models were … [Read more...] about Analysis of Fatal Truck-Involved Work Zone Crashes in Florida: Application of Tree-Based Models
Analysis of Truck-Involved Work Zone Crash Fatalities in Florida
This paper presents the results of an analysis focusing on recognition of large truck-involved work zone crash patterns. Recognizing the limitations of logistic regression models that were commonly … [Read more...] about Analysis of Truck-Involved Work Zone Crash Fatalities in Florida
Construction Worker Hit and Killed by Flatbed Truck on S. Billings Blvd. Exit
Jeffrey Dyekman, a 52-year-old Montana Department of Transportation worker, was killed in a fatal crash involving four vehicles that occurred near the South Billings Boulevard exit on I-90. Dyekman … [Read more...] about Construction Worker Hit and Killed by Flatbed Truck on S. Billings Blvd. Exit
ODOT Making Changes After Eighth Crashes off I-270
Eight trucks went off the highway since April. Those crashes have coincided with highway lanes narrowing and shifting caused by an I-270 widening project. To prevent such crashes in the future, Ohio … [Read more...] about ODOT Making Changes After Eighth Crashes off I-270