These 13 papers are concerned with safety data, analysis and evaluation.Specific topics discussed include the following: calibration of the Highway Safety Manual's accident prediction model for a secondary road network;speed and safety; accident modification functions; elementary units of exposure; identifying crash hot spots; safety of lane and shoulder width combinations on rural roads; effects of pavement marking retroreflectivity on traffic crash frequency; road data aggregation and sectioning for crash analysis; safety evaluation of curve delineation improvements; microsimulation to study a traffic signal incident reduction function; comparison of simulated freeway safety performance with observed crashes; traffic operation measures in the safety analysis of signalised intersections; and different parameterizations of the varying dispersion parameter as a function of segment length.
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