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Author:

Gross, Francis

Title:

ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SAFETY EFFECTIVENESS ON RURAL, TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS: CASE-CONTROL AND COHORT METHODS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Highway Safety
Transportation
Geometric Design
Case-Control Method
Cohort Method
Safety Effectiveness
Crash Modification Factor

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Frank_Gross.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member
David Theodore Mauger, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Cruzado, Ivette

Title:

FACTORS AFFECTING DRIVER SPEED CHOICE ALONG TWO-LANE RURAL HIGHWAY TRANSITION ZONES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

transition zones
speed prediction models
multilevel models

File:

Download IVETTE_CRUZADO_DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Committee Member

Author:

Aguero Valverde, Jonathan

Title:

Network Analysis of Road Crash Frequency using Spatial Models

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

bayesian hierarchical models
spatial correlation
highway safety
Poisson log-Normal conditional autoregressive

File:

Download ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Oh, Jun Seok

Title:

Safety Modeling via Segmentation of Transportation Networks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

interstate segmentation
two step process
mixed multinomial logit model
lighting effects
interstate safety

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Civil_Eng_JunSeok_Oh.pdf

Committee Members:

Venky N Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member
Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member

Author:

Shyu, Ming-Bang

Title:

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO INCORPORATE HETEROGENEITY IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT SEVERITY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Covariance Heterogeneity Model
Nested Logit Model
Accident Severity Model
Heterogeneity
Heteroskedastic Extreme-Value Model

File:

Download Ming-Bang_Shyu-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member

Author:

Porter, Richard Jon

Title:

ESTIMATION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN 85TH PERCENTILE SPEEDS, SPEED DEVIATIONS, ROADWAY AND ROADSIDE GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC CONTROL IN FREEWAY WORK ZONES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

work zone
speed
speed deviation
applied econometrics
simultaneous equation models
geometric design

File:

Download Porter_Richard_Jon_PhD_Thesis_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

"John M Mason, Jr", Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Kevin M Mahoney, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Member

Author:

Sittikariya, Sittipan

Title:

Methodological Approaches to Incorporate Heterogeneity in Traffic Accident Frequency Models

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Median crossover accidents
Heterogeneity
Negative Binomial
Random effects Poisson
Bayesian modeling

File:

Download Dissertation_Sittipan_Sittikariya.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Minho

Title:

Longitudinal Methods for Prioritizing Highway Safety Investments

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Geometric Effects
Crash Frequency
Accident Severity
Heterogeneous Negative Binomial Model
Multinomial Logit Model

File:

Download Dissertation-Minho_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member

Author:

Kwon, Daniel Wontak

Title:

Vulnerability Analysis And Risk Assessment For Dynamic Nonmotorized Human Travel Activity Networks

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

transportation security
micro simulation
travel behavior
risk ratio
simultaneous equations

File:

Download KWON--Dissertation-Vulnerability_Analysis__Risk_Assessment.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

Author:

Hariharan, Baradhwaj

Title:

functional form and heterogeneity effects on safety performance function estimation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Crash frequency
heterogeneity
count data
negative binomial
multinomial fractional polynomial
over-dispersion

File:

Download Barad-dissertation_final_draft_MAIN_FILE_to_upload_second_updates.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member