Analysis of the Relationship of Roadside Inspections on Large Truck Crashes [Research Brief]

Details

• Creators:
  Lu, Pan ; Lantz, Brenda Michelle ; Tolliver, Denver ; Zheng, Zijian
• Corporate Creators:
  Mountain-Plains Consortium
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Compliance
  • Crash causes
  • Crash risk forecasting
  • Crash severity
  • Data mining
  • Fatalities
  • Injury severity
  • Inspection
  • Motor carriers
  • Truck crashes
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MPC 19-381
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mountain-Plains Consortium
• Abstract:
  Researchers want to better understand the relationships between roadside inspection data and safety performance data for large trucks. The research will provide insight into those relationships for various-sized motor carriers. An improved understanding about the importance of various factors (driver characteristics, trucking company characteristics, road conditions, etc.) in crash severity can improve crash prevention and enforcement efforts and overall road
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  MPC 475
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42485/dot_42485_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 821.76 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0892218a8f62a1919a43169cc6add1f57f5525c706f58becf74951256f190042a5f6b9ee9d315f3a6246ecdd3454f718ba5f75bd442205d8477ab2859c3f649c