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A truck hauling cargo overturned and fell off the side of a highway in Mendocino County Thursday after its driver, Christopher Cortez, ignored multiple signs notifying motorists that any vehicle over …MoreCrash Causes
Accidents in Construction Sites: A Study on the Causes and Preventive Approaches to Mitigate Accident Rate (Publication)
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Accidents occur at construction sites are due to the faults of either the construction companies or the workers themselves. It is disheartening that the victims suffer injuries, death, loss or damage …MoreFatal Injuries Among Hispanic Workers in the U.S. Construction Industry: Findings from FACE Investigation Reports (Publication)
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Identifying and understanding the characteristics of workplace accidents can provide vital information required to clarify their causes and prevent similar accidents from happening in the future. The …MoreAnalysis of Work-Zone Crashes Using the Ordered Probit Model with Factor Analysis in Egypt (Publication)
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Work-zones, due to their nature, are predisposed to hazardous situations. This is a consequence of conducting construction work within the vicinity of, or near, vehicular traffic. The exposure to dang…MoreDevelopment of BIM-Based Safety Management Model Focusing on Safety Rule Violations (Publication)
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Necessity of construction automation through BIM framework could no longer be set aside if we were to remain relevant and concurrent in the ever-changing, technology-driven construction practices. The…MoreVariety of Accident Causes in Construction Industry (Publication)
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Construction Industry is a high risk industry and widely recognized as one of most hazardous occupation in the world. The statistic of accidents in Malaysia give us a picture that Malaysian constructi…MoreThe Sooner the Better: Drivers’ Reactions to Two-Step Take-Over Requests in Highly Automated Driving (Publication)
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Driving behavior after take-over requests (TORs) is one of the most popular subjects in human factors re-search on highly automated driving. Many studies utilized one-step TOR procedures to prompt dri…MoreLooking Deep into the Eyes: Green Light on TMAs Could be Another Option for DOTs (Publication)
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Truck-mounted attenuator (TMA) has been used as a countermeasure to help improve safety in mobile work zones. However, 139 TMA crashes occurred in Missouri from 2012 to 2017 with distracted driving be…MoreCauses and Effects of Accidents on Construction Site (Publication)
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The purpose of this study is to find out the most possible factor which causes accidents in the construction industry and thus affecting the safety management in the construction firm. It also include…MoreRisk Factors Affecting Crash Injury Severity by Work Zone Area (Publication)
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Work zones include advance warning area, transition area, and activity area. The geometric, traffic control aspects, traffic operations, and driver’s maneuverability differ within each work zone are…MoreDeveloping a Pre-Task Safety Briefing Tool for Kentucky Maintenance Personnel (Publication)
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The dangerous work environment in the construction industry and the inherited high risks associated with its work make it the focus of safety training and regulations. Highway construction and mainten…MoreAmtrak Didn’t Heed Work-Zone Speed Advice Before Fatal Crash (Publication)
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After two track workers were killed five months ago, U.S. safety investigators urged Amtrak to slow its trains when they pass work crews. But Amtrak failed to follow the safety recommendations. …MoreImpacts of Work Zone Configurations on Passenger-Car Crash Injury Severities (Publication)
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Work zone safety remains a priority to the Federal Highway Administration, state highway departments, highway engineers, and the traveling public. Work zones create a hospitable environment for crashe…MoreAnalysis of Work Zone Crash Reports to Determine Factors Associated with Crash Severity (Publication)
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Highway work zones present an environment that leads to opportunities for traffic crashes that may not otherwise occur. To investigate the severity of work zone-related crashes and relationships betwe…MoreA Deep Learning Approach to Predict Severity Levels of Work Zone Crashes (Publication)
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The need for maintaining aging infrastructure and/or expanding road capacity leads to an increasing number of work zones presented on highways. Consequently, many crashes were observed in work zone ar…MoreEvaluation of Work Zone Crashes in California (Publication)
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Work zone crashes have been a major concern of safety for many government agencies and travelling public. According to the Federal Highway Administration Fact & Statistics, there is need for maint…MoreUnderstanding Injuries and Deaths in Construction Sites in Hong Kong from a Criminological Perspective (Publication)
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Over the past two decades, the accident rate and number of workplace injuries in construction sites have been shown to be relatively high when compared to the figures for other industries in Hong Kong…MoreSafety Concepts for Workers from an OSHA Perspective (Publication)
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Highway construction and maintenance workers face numerous hazards on job sites, many of which are unique by industry standards. Despite the exposure of state transportation agency employees and contr…MoreUsing Binary Logistic Regression to Explain the Impact of Accident Factors on Work Zone Crashes (Publication)
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For consolidated road networks, the identification, programming, and implementation of maintenance actions enables addressing the deficiencies identified in the infrastructure, ensuring the provision …MoreBusy Year for Iowa Road Construction Nears End with ‘Way Too Many’ Deaths in Work Zones (Publication)
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10 people were killed in work zone crashes in Iowa this year and 13, last year. DOT officials said the problem behind the higher number of work zone fatalities is a combination of more …MoreDigesting Factors Influencing Construction, Maintenance and Utility Work Zone Traffic Injury Severities (Publication)
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This study digested factors affecting injury severities resulting from traffic crashes along work zones in Tennessee. Utilizing five years of crash data related to construction, maintenance and utilit…MoreAnalysis of Driver Injury Severity for Different Work Zone Areas (Publication)
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Work zones are an integral part of the transportation system consisting of roadway construction, maintenance, and utility installation. In this paper the authors attempt to investigate the causal fact…MoreImplementation of a Real Time Data Driven Smart Work Zone Management System to Provide Queue Alerts to Stakeholders (Publication)
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Queueing frequently occurs in advance of interstate work zones, and back-of-queue crashes are of concern to all agencies. Over 30,000 crashes on 2,280 directional miles of Indiana interstates in calen…MoreA Tree-Based Ordered Probit Approach to Identify Factors Affecting Work Zone Weather-Related Crashes Severity in North Carolina Using the Highway Safety Information System Dataset (Publication)
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Work zone crashes are still on the rise due to the aging of US roads and the increase in traffic demand. Investigation of crash characteristics and determining contributing factors in work zones is on…MoreDistracted Driving: 85 People Killed in Work Zones in Five Years (Publication)
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In the past five years, 85 people, including four ODOT workers, were killed and 1,677 people were injured in Oklahoma work zones. Work zone crashes, particularly those caused by distracted driving, sp…MoreHighway Worker Safety: A Synthesis of Highway Practice (Publication)
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 509: Highway Worker Safety identifies how state departments of transportation (DOTs) implement policies using highway worker safet…More