CIE 574LEC - Traffic Safety

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the principles of traffic safety with a focus on safety modeling, methods, and applications. More specific topics include: safety audits; identification and prediction of hazardous locations; safety hot spots and countermeasures; traffic conflicts; accident frequency analysis; accident rate analysis; accident injury-severity analysis; selecting safety projects; intersection safety; human behavior in accident analysis. NLOGIT (LIMDEP) software will be used in this course, but no prior knowledge is necessary.

Credits: 3

Requisites: Pre-requisite: Graduate standing in Engineering, Economics, or Statistics programs.