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Creator:: Anderson, Jason C.
Abstract:: This dissertation provides a comparison of statistical and econometric frameworks, using a previously unused freight data source, to study crash frequency by crash type and heavy-vehicle hard braking in Oregon. Hard braking can serve as a proxy for several factors, one of which is safety. Therefore, with the hard braking...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: factors, one of which is safety. Therefore, with the hard braking literature being limited to

Creator:: Viriato Maia Ferreira Pestana, Ana Catarina
Abstract:: Over the past two decades, the Lean Construction academic and practicing engineering community has used lean practices and tools to help improve the performance of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Lean practices have led to improved competitiveness of construction companies that have adopted them, by focusing on ways...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: safety risks on the job site. The second proposes a new methodology combining risk mapping and lean

Creator:: Tymvios, Nicholas
Abstract:: The construction industry employs about 7% of the total US workforce, and yet it accounts for 15.7% of all occupational fatalities. Specifically in 2011, there were 721 deaths in construction, second only to transportation with 733. The cause of a large number of these construction deaths can be attributed to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for Construction Worker Safety in the US

Creator:: Avelar Moran, Raúl Eduardo
Abstract:: Posting advisory speed signs at sharp horizontal curve sites is a practice well established in the United States. The purpose of these signs is to provide the driving public with a safe speed to negotiate such curves; however, the link between these signs and safety has not yet been clearly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: presented on April 10, 2012. Title: Safety Performance of Curve Advisory Speed Signs Abstract

Creator:: Islam, Mohammad Rabiul
Abstract:: Traffic signal countdown timers (TSCT) are innovative, practical and cost effective technologies with the potential to improve efficiency and safety at signalized intersections. The purpose of these devices is to assist motorists in decision making at signalized intersections with real time signal change information. While successful implementation of these devices...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Safety and Efficiency Benefits of Traffic Signal Countdown

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