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Author:

Hu, Wen

Title:

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIAN RELATED CRASH FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

crash frequency simulation
spatial dependency
crash severity
crash frequency
Median safety

File:

Download WenHu_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavković, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member

Author:

Morris, Cody M

Title:

Operating speed models for passenger cars and trucks on horizontal curves with steep grades

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

speed
passenger cars
trucks
multilane highway
mathematical models
regression analysis

File:

Download Morris_Thesis_Full.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Crisafi, Jonathan Charles

Title:

Highway Safety Impacts Related to Marcellus Shale Drilling Activity in Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Marcellus
transportation
safety
trucks

File:

Download JCC_Thesis__2015-07-08__FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Himes, Scott Charles

Title:

Reliability Based Design of Horizontal Curves Considering the Effects of Grades

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Reliability
Highway Safety
Transportation Design

File:

Download Scott_Himes_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Dr Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Dr, Darren Torbic, Special Member

Author:

Kulis, Philip Nicholas

Title:

Daytime and Nighttime Passenger Car Operating Speed Models for Two-lane Rural Highways

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Operating speed models
Nighttime speeds
Rural highways
Three-stage least squares
ordinary least squares

File:

Download FINAL_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fraser, Janet Lynne

Title:

Understanding Use of Social Media for Dissemination of Transportation Information

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

transportation
social media
communications
Twitter
Facebook
Department of Transportation

File:

Download JFraser_-_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Kurt David Johnson, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member

Author:

Gooch, Jeffrey Paul

Title:

Estimating the Safety Effects of Horizontal Curves on Pennsylvania Two-lane Rural Roads

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Highway safety
traffic safety
horizontal curves
propensity scores
potential outcomes
negative binomial
mixed effects

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Gooch.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin T Pietrucha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shao, Yen-wen

Title:

Modeling the Interactive Effects of Safety Countermeasures on Pennsylvania Highways

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

countermeasure
interaction
crash estimation
Crash Modification Factor
CMF
multiple treatments
safety effectiveness

File:

Download Yen-Wen_Shaos_dissertation_Modeling_Interactive_Effects_07242015_final_resubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Gao, Xueyu

Title:

Modeling Uncertainty in Large_scale Urban Traffic Networks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram
Adaptive Signal Control
Urban Traffic Control
Markov Chain Model

File:

Download Dissertation_XueyuGao_finalsubmit.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Wood, Jonathan Sayre

Title:

Causal inference in traffic safety research: comparison of the empirical Bayes and propensity scores-potential outcomes methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Causal inference
empirical Bayes
transportation safety
genetic matching
propensity scores
crash modification factor

File:

Download Wood_Doctoral_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Luke John Keele, Special Member
Glenn A Firebaugh, Special Member