Road accident analysis factors

The problem of road accident is increasing in developing countries. A matter of research has been and is being committed to this topic, as a search of past and current research shows. Road accidents in developing countries have progressed over the last ten years. This could be because of increasing...

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Main Author: Esmaeeli, Hamed
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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spelling my-utm-ep.111572017-09-27T04:05:40Z Road accident analysis factors 2010-04 Esmaeeli, Hamed HE Transportation and Communications TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements The problem of road accident is increasing in developing countries. A matter of research has been and is being committed to this topic, as a search of past and current research shows. Road accidents in developing countries have progressed over the last ten years. This could be because of increasing vehicle occupancy over time or to the fact that a particular type of accident is much more common now than was the case ten years ago. For instance commercial vehicles are currently used to transport workers to and from their places of their work. When such a vehicle is involved in an accident, large numbers of mortalities often occur. This report investigates the modelling and implementation of a coordination system within a simulation environment to foresee future accident rate. The approach of analysis used must be correspondingly robust and objective to evaluate accident rate. To comparing changes in car ownership, we hope to use these data to investigate the factors behind these changes. Some examples are the effect of income, changes in employment, changing household structure and changes in residential and work location. They should not be too sensitive to departures from model assumptions or the presence of a substantial number of outliers. Given the polluted nature of the data, ordinary least squares regression is not suitable, therefore, robust regression techniques are recommended. 2010-04 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11157/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11157/4/HamedEsmaeeliMFKA2010.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering [1] Arrowsmith, DK and Place, CM, (1992). “Dynamical Systems”, Chapman & Hall , 1992). [2] Banister D., Bayliss D. (1992), Structural changes in population and impact on passenger transport, ECMT Round table 88, Paris: OECD. [3] CURRIE, G. & SENBERGS, Z. (2007) Exploring Forced Car Ownership in Metropolitan Melbourne. 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum. Melbourne, ATRF. [4] Victoria Transport Policy Institute,( 2007) [5] WADHWA, L. C. (1986) Urban household car ownership in Australia. Australasian Transportation Research Forum. Darwin. [6] Yohai, V.J. (1987), “High Breakdown and High Efficiency Robust Estimates for Regression”, [7] Final Report on the Factors that Influence Owners? Decisions when they Scrap Cars and HGVs Report for Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions. Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds and Hague Consulting Group (2002?) (unpublished) [8] Motor vehicle stocks, scrappage, and sales. Greenspan A.; Cohen D. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1 August 1999, [9] Audit of Car Ownership Models, Gerard de Jong et al. prepared by RAND Report no. 01192 2002 for Transport Research Centre of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport. [10] Income Distribution, Australia, 1995-96 (cat. no. 6523.0) [11] S-Plus 2000 Guide to Statistics vol. 1” 1999 [12] Fan J. and Gijbels I.1996
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic HE Transportation and Communications
HE Transportation and Communications
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HE Transportation and Communications
Esmaeeli, Hamed
Road accident analysis factors
description The problem of road accident is increasing in developing countries. A matter of research has been and is being committed to this topic, as a search of past and current research shows. Road accidents in developing countries have progressed over the last ten years. This could be because of increasing vehicle occupancy over time or to the fact that a particular type of accident is much more common now than was the case ten years ago. For instance commercial vehicles are currently used to transport workers to and from their places of their work. When such a vehicle is involved in an accident, large numbers of mortalities often occur. This report investigates the modelling and implementation of a coordination system within a simulation environment to foresee future accident rate. The approach of analysis used must be correspondingly robust and objective to evaluate accident rate. To comparing changes in car ownership, we hope to use these data to investigate the factors behind these changes. Some examples are the effect of income, changes in employment, changing household structure and changes in residential and work location. They should not be too sensitive to departures from model assumptions or the presence of a substantial number of outliers. Given the polluted nature of the data, ordinary least squares regression is not suitable, therefore, robust regression techniques are recommended.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Esmaeeli, Hamed
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title Road accident analysis factors
title_short Road accident analysis factors
title_full Road accident analysis factors
title_fullStr Road accident analysis factors
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granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
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publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11157/4/HamedEsmaeeliMFKA2010.pdf
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