Evaluation of rear-end bus collisions and identification of possible solutions : [summary].

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• Creators:
  Morris, William P.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of South Florida
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Accident Analysis Accident Causes Bus Accidents Bus Bays Countermeasures Evaluation And Assessment Highway Safety Legislation Multiple Vehicle Accidents Rear End Collisions
• Publication/ Report Number:
  BDK85-977-50
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  As transit ridership continues to grow, the
  
  increasing deployment of buses certainly provides
  
  more opportunities for car-bus collisions. Pull out bays, more bus stops, and dedicated lanes
  
  mean that drivers must be more aware of buses
  
  and accommodate their maneuvers in and out of
  
  traffic. In this project, University of South Florida
  
  researchers sought answers to a series of questions
  
  about car-bus rear end collisions: Are these
  
  collisions increasing? What is their prevalence?
  
  What conditions promote these collisions? What
  
  strategies can reduce the number and severity of
  
  collisions? How do Yield-to-Bus laws and pull-out
  
  bays affect these collisions?
  
  Examining the literature and reports related
  
  to the incidence of car-bus rear end collisions
  
  revealed limited research. The researchers found
  
  studies documenting times and types of locations
  
  of bus collisions, but no substantive work on
  
  causes or prevalence of bus collisions. So, trends
  
  or prevention/mitigation strategies were not
  
  clear. However, data were available from the
  
  Federal Transit Administration (FTA), which since
  
  2008, has counted rear end collisions as a category
  
  in transit authority reporting. FTA data for 2008-2012 were compiled for total, bus-rear-ending-car,
  
  and car-rear-ending-bus collisions for the U.S. and
  
  territories, the ten FTA regions, Florida, 18 Florida
  
  transit agencies, and the six most populous states
  
  in 2012 (CA, FL, IL, NY, PA, TX).
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cf4239bbc6024d3ef2fdaba35b28f250bc274b45a3f3c374acfb4dd67ceacb45
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27153/dot_27153_DS1.pdf
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