This study estimates three distinct measures of truck-related accident risk for several California urban highways, based on a monthly panel of accident and traffic data spanning from January 2007 through April 2010. The first of these risk measures is 'average risk', defined as the number of accidents divided by total traffic volume. The second is 'marginal risk', defined as the change in average risk resulting from a marginal increase in truck traffic volume. The third is 'external risk', defined as the product of marginal risk and total traffic volume. Special attention is paid to comparisons of these risk measures between 'drayage routes', which carry the highest concentrations of drayage traffic, and other urban routes. This is done to investigate the notion that drayage trucks present a greater threat to highway safety than do other types of heavy commercial trucks. Estimation results suggest that drayage routes are indeed relatively hazardous in terms of average risk. The marginal and external risks exhibited by these routes, however, are considerably smaller than those of several other urban routes. These latter findings suggest that the exclusive targeting of drayage routes, and the trucks that travel them, may not offer the most effective approach to designing highway safety policies that target heavy commercial truck traffic.
Accident Rates and Safety Policies for Trucks Serving the San Pedro Bay Ports
2011
40 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Safety , Accidents , Trucks , Ports , Safety policies , Accident rates , Truck-related accidents , Urban highways , Drayage routes , Drayage traffic , Drayage trucks , Average risk , Marginal risk , External risk , Traffic volume , San Pedro Bay(California) , University Transportation Centers(UTC) , California Department of Transportation(CALDOT)
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