Includes 14 papers that explore publication bias in road safety evaluation, accidents and accessibility, collecting data on animal carcass removal from roadways using personal digital assistants, genetic programming for investigating urban arterial design factors contributing to crashes, and the U.S. Road Assessment Program star rating protocol.This issue of the TRR also examines automated analysis of vehicle interactions and collisions, proposed safety index based on driver risk-taking, effect of street pattern on road safety, near crashes as crash surrogate for naturalistic driving studies, endogeneity in models of severity of traffic crash injuries, predicting single-vehicle fatal crashes for two-lane rural highways, identifying hot spots, relationship between calculated conflicts in a microsimulation model and the number of crashes, and comparison of the application of baseline models estimated with accident-modification factors and models with covariates. (Author/publisher)
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