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Title:

Development of an Evaluation Criteria for Commercially Available Proximity Warning Systems to Prevent Backing Fatalities in Construction Work Zones

Accession Number:

01476151

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Various sensing technologies, such as radars, video cameras, and tag based systems, have been developed and tested to provide hazard warnings to operators in order to prevent collisions within blind areas of construction equipment. However, due to the various construction equipment characteristics, there is no panacea in terms of technology that will work for all types of construction equipment. Therefore, it is necessary to develop criteria for selecting proximity warning systems for specific equipment types. The main objectives of this study were: (1) to select construction equipment types which most frequently cause backing accidents in construction work zones; (2) to establish a generic proximity warning systems selection criteria for selected equipment types; and (3) to select appropriate proximity warning systems for selected vehicle types. From accident and blind area data analysis, pickup and dump trucks were selected for the test. In addition, the sensor selection criteria for both pickup and dump trucks were developed based on eight evaluation factors and criteria which were collected from related publications and specifications from commercially available systems. The selection criteria were validated by 20 external experts in the field of construction safety and sensing. As a result, three sensor systems for pickup trucks and one sensor system for dump trucks were selected based on the developed evaluation criteria.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB55 Work Zone Traffic Control

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-0129

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Choe, Sooyoung
Leite, Fernanda
Seedah, Dan
Caldas, Carlos

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-0129

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:11PM