Construction Work Zone Safety: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Construction Work Zone Crashes
Analysis of work zone crashes can help identify the contributing factors and inform strategies to improve work zone safety. However, the work-zone-related crashes may not be correctly identified in Utah’s crash reports, which impedes work zone safety analysis. To overcome this major challenge, the research team will leverage available data sources (i.e., crash data, work zone information, vehicle probe data) to compile a comprehensive database of all the work-zone-related crashes (both primary and upstream). This will facilitate further safety analysis, such as testing the hypothesis that: "Work zones increase the number of crashes." However, to test such a hypothesis, we cannot simply look at the average number of crashes at road links with and without work zones, and then proceed with a statistical t-test. Instead, we must account for additional factors that may contribute to traffic crashes, such as traffic volumes at those locations, road geometry, weather, visibility, work zone information, and possibly others. Therefore, the team will extract the aforementioned information and try to account for their effects as well. The proposed research and resulting strategies are especially important given Utah Department of Transportation's (UDOT's) ongoing construction program and strategic goals of increasing mobility, reaching zero fatalities, and preserving infrastructure.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $50000
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Contract Numbers:
Utah 238192
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Sponsor Organizations:
Utah Department of Transportation
4501 South 2700 West
Project Development
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84114-8380 -
Managing Organizations:
Utah Department of Transportation
4501 South 2700 West
Project Development
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84114-8380 -
Project Managers:
Chamberlin, Robert
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Performing Organizations:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
110 Central Campus Drive Suite 2000
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84112 -
Principal Investigators:
Markovic, Nikola
- Start Date: 20230823
- Expected Completion Date: 20241231
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Crash characteristics; Work zone safety
- Geographic Terms: Utah
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01898445
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Utah Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: Utah 238192
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Nov 8 2023 11:24AM