CivE 616
Traffic Safety
Description
Introduction to traffic safety. Focus on collisions and exposure. Safety management process. Collision modeling, theory and applications. Safety evaluation techniques, challenges, opportunities, influence of confounding factors and regression to the mean bias. The following topics will be covered:Introduce traffic safety: Overview of safety in Canada and the world. Fundamentals of traffic safety. Extent and nature of problem. Historical, national, and global perspectives.
Understanding the Safety Management Process: Different stages and processes, screening tools, collision data analysis, problem identification, recommendation of countermeasures to correct safety problems, and procedure to conduct an economic appraisal of any proposed countermeasure.
Provide an overview of the different Safety Analysis Methods: conventional and Bayesian analysis techniques including strengths and weaknesses. Collision modeling theory and applications (linear, Poisson, negative binomial, zero-inflated, etc.)
Provide an overview of the different Safety Evaluation Techniques: Cross-sectional vs. time series studies to evaluate safety countermeasures, strengths and weakness, challenges and opportunities, target crashes, influence of confounding factors. Regression to the mean. Empirical Bayes’ and Bayes’ techniques. Applications and Case Studies.
Learning Outcomes
Explain the main paradigm shifts in traffic safetyUnderstand the fundamentals of traffic safety
Explain and apply the safety management process
Understand and apply conventional analysis safety techniques
Understand and apply Bayesian analysis safety techniques
Develop and apply safety performance functions
Understand the different safety evaluation methods
Design a safe roadside environment
| Lecture | Seminar | Lab | Credits | Total AU |
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| 3 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 3 | 37.8 |
| M % | NS % | CS % | ES % | ED % |
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Undergraduate Program(s)
Sections & Respective Instructors
| A1 - 2023/2024 - Fall - Karim El-Basyouny |
| A1 - 2022/2023 - Winter - Maged Abdelkader |
| A1 - 2020/2021 - Fall - Karim El-Basyouny |