Analysis of bus collision and non-collision incidents using transit ITS and other archived operations data.

Details

• Creators:
  Strathman, James G. ; Wachana, Paul ; Callas, Steve
• Corporate Creators:
  Portland State University. Center for Urban Studies ; TriMet
• Corporate Contributors:
  Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic safety
  • Transit safety
  • Bus crashes
  • Bus drivers
  • Traffic incidents
  • Bus Operators, Safety
• Publication/ Report Number:
  OTREC-RR-10-15
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Oregon
• Corporate Publisher:
  Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium
• Abstract:
  This report analyzes factors contributing to bus operations safety incidents at TriMet, the transit provider for the Portland Oregon metropolitan ; region. The analysis focuses on 4,631 collision and non-collision incidents that occurred between 2006 and 2009. Empirical analysis of these ; incidents draws on a wide array of operator-level data recovered by transit ITS technologies in combination with information from TriMet’s ; human resources, scheduling, and customer relations databases. Incident frequencies are estimated in relation to operators’ demographic ; characteristics, employment status, assigned work characteristics, service delivery and performance indicators, temporal factors, and customer ; information. Apart from identifying factors that are empirically related to the frequency of safety incidents, the findings offer insights into ; operations policies and practices that hold promise for improving safety.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18432/dot_18432_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 750.49 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5fb6fe938c79190295c8ac364666a91cc28d3b31025f9da110c72ade7a656093