Development & Testing of Methods for Estimating the Impact of Safety Improvements

Status:  Complete
Report Date:  08/07/2001

Summary:

This report describes a Bayesian method for estimating accident rates at individual sites, which takes into account the fact that the total traffic count usually used to measure exposure is generally not known with certainty.

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Project Personnel:

Principal Investigator:  Gary Davis

Technical Liaison:  Darab Bouzarjomehri, Loren Hill

Project Coordinator:  Bill Bunde

Panel Members: 
Gary Ries - Mn/DOT/ Traffic Engineering
George Cepress - Mn/DOT/ Transportation Data and Analysis
Mark Flinner - Transportation System Management