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Sponsor: Caltrans

Deployment of a Tool for Measuring Freeway Safety Performance

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

June 1, 2008 - December 31, 2011

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Project Team

James Marca, Shin-Ting (Cindy) Jeng, Jee Eun (Jamie) Kang, Ying Jun Chow, Matthew Redmond, Craig Rindt

Sponsor & Award Number

Caltrans: 65A0280

Areas of Expertise

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

This project updated and deployed a freeway safety performance measurement tool. Freeway safety performance is measured by estimating the cumulative risk of different accident characteristics. The project built upon a previous research project that developed the core methodology. The tool evaluates the cumulative risk over time of an accident or a particular kind of accident. The probability is estimated using a model that takes as input only variables that are derived from common inductive loop detectors. The estimated models predict increased risk of any accident occurring, as well as a number of characteristics of those accidents.

Related Publications

research report | Dec 2011

Deployment of a tool for measuring freeway safety performance

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Greening Freight Transportation: An Analysis of Some Social Benefits from Shifting Freight Traffic to Off-peak Hours

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 1, 2010 - March 30, 2012

Principal Investigator

Jean-Daniel Saphores

Project Team

Ankoor Bhagat, Jielin Sun, Jielin Sun, Jun Wu, R. (Jay) Jayakrishnan

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // UCTC Caltrans Match: 7490
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Freight, Logistics, & Supply Chain

Team Departmental Affiliations

Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Public Health

Project Summary

Freight movement is essential to our prosperity, but it also generates large external costs in the form of additional congestion, air pollution, and truck-related accidents that further compound congestion and air pollution. Unfortunately, these external costs are not yet fully understood. The idea of shifting freight delivery off-peak was proposed a long time ago but it is still controversial. The purpose of this project is to better assess some of the social benefits of shifting freight operations off peak with an emphasis on congestion, air pollution (CO2, NOx, and PM), its health impacts, and accidents related to freight trucks, using an innovative approach and state-of-the-art tools. Our focus will be on the San Pedro Bay Ports (SPBP) of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California, which is one of the largest container port complexes in the world; it contributes significantly to both California’s and the nation’s economies but its growth is threatened by its environmental performance. We will build on our previous UCTC research in order to provide new insights into the impacts of off-peak SPBP freight corridor operations.

Expanded Evaluation of the California Safe Routes to School Program, Year 2

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 30, 2002 - July 31, 2004

Principal Investigator

Marlon Boarnet

Project Team

Kristen Day

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // UCTC Caltrans Match: UCB - SA3777-18220
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice

Policies for Safer Truck Operations on Urban Freeways

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 30, 2002 - July 31, 2004

Principal Investigator

Thomas Golob

Project Team

Amelia Regan

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // UCTC Caltrans Match: UCB - SA3777-18220
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Freight, Logistics, & Supply Chain Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice

Team Departmental Affiliation

Computer Science

Handheld Travel Survey Technology to Supplement Vehicle Tracking in a Shared-use Station Car Program

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 30, 2002 - July 31, 2004

Principal Investigator

Michael McNally

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // UCTC Caltrans Match: UCB - SA3777-18220
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

High-Coverage Point to Point Transit: Institutional Feasibility and Demand Study of Agencies, Users and Operators

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 30, 2002 - July 31, 2004

Principal Investigator

r-jayakrishnanR. (Jay) Jayakrishnan

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // UCTC Caltrans Match: UCB - SA3777-18220
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Developing a Web-Based Master Program in Transportation

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013

Principal Investigator

Michael McNally

Sponsor, Program

Caltrans // UCTC Caltrans Match
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Analysis and Synthesis of Electric Vehicle and Charging Data for Multi-Mode Mobility Systems

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013

Principal Investigator

Scott Samuelsen

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // UCTC Caltrans Match: 7869
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment Zero-Emission Vehicles & Low-Carbon Fuels

Team Departmental Affiliation

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Project Summary

This project will explore PEV use and charging patterns in combination with unique vehicle attributes, to address the limitations of PEV adoption as a function of EVSE availability and explore mixed-mode mobility systems that leverage PEV performance characteristics while minimizing their limitations. Specifically, this project will utilize data available from the Zero Emission Vehicle•Network Enabled Transport program in conjunction with the established Spatially and Temporally Resolved Energy and Environment Tool (STREET) to analyze mixed-mode mobility system utilizing PEVs.

Development of Tools to Access the Effects on Traffic Safety of changes in Traffic Flow conditions Under ATMS Operations

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Project Team

Veronica Alvarez, Thomas Golob

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // PATH: 4117
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Related Publications

working paper | Sep 2003

Relationships Among Urban Freeway Accidents, Traffic Flow, Weather, and Lighting Conditions

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research report | Dec 2001

Relationships Among Urban Freeway Accidents, Traffic Flow, Weather and Lighting Conditions

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published journal article | Jul 2003

Relationships among urban freeway accidents, traffic flow, weather, and lighting conditions
Journal of Transportation Engineering

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High-Coverage Demand-Responsive Transit: A New Design Concept and Simulation-Evaluation of Operational Schemes for Future Technological Deployment

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001

Principal Investigator

r-jayakrishnanR. (Jay) Jayakrishnan

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // PATH: 4111
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Related Publications

published journal article | Jan 2002

Design and Operational Concepts of High-Coverage Point-to-Point Transit System
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

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