Investigation of Contributing Factors of Wrong-Way Driving Crashes on Partially/ Uncontrolled-Access Divided Highways

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Zhang, Beijia
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	................................................................................................................................................ ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................................................................... iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................. v LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................... viii LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................................... ix LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ..................................................................................................................... x INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 DEFINITION OF WWD CRASHES ON DIVIDED HIGHWAYS ................................................... 1 1.2 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WWD CRASHES ................................................................ 1 1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY .......................................................................................................... 3 1.4 OUTLINE OF THE CHAPTERS ....................................................................................................... 3 LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 WWD CRASHES ............................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 SCARCE STUDIES OF WWD ON DIVIDED HIGHWAYS ............................................................ 6 2.3 MORE EMPIRICALLY ANALYSIS THAN STATISTICALLY ANALYSIS ................................... 7 2.4 COUNTERMEASURES WITH UNKNOWN IMPACT ................................................................... 9 DATA COLLECTION AND METHODOLOGY ................................................................................... 11 3.1 DATA COLLECTION ...................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.1 Crash Database ........................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.2 WWD Crash Identification ........................................................................................................ 12 3.1.3 WWD Crash Verification ........................................................................................................... 12
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