As transit ridership continues to grow, the increasing deployment of buses certainly provides more opportunities for car-bus collisions. Pull-out bays, more bus stops, and dedicated lanes mean that drivers must be more aware of buses and accommodate their maneuvers in and out of traffic. In this project, University of South Florida researchers sought answers to a series of questions about car-bus rear end collisions: Are these collisions increasing. What is their prevalence. What conditions promote these collisions. What strategies can reduce the number and severity of collisions. How do Yield-to-Bus laws and pull-out bays affect these collisions. Examining the literature and reports related to the incidence of car-bus rear end collisions revealed limited research. The researchers found studies documenting times and types of locations of bus collisions, but no substantive work on causes or prevalence of bus collisions. So, trends or prevention/mitigation strategies were not clear. However, data were available from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), which since 2008, has counted rear end collisions as a category in transit authority reporting. FTA data for 2008-2012 were compiled for total, bus-rear-ending-car, and car-rear-ending-bus collisions for the U.S. and territories, the ten FTA regions, Florida, 18 Florida transit agencies, and the six most populous states in 2012 (CA, FL, IL, NY, PA, TX).


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    Titel :

    Evaluation of Rear-End Bus Collisions and Identification of Possible Solutions, Summary


    Beteiligte:
    P.W Morris (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014


    Format / Umfang :

    1 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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