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Title: Effects of Drivers' Action on the Severity of School Bus Collision
Accession Number: 01518637
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Since parents put their faith in the SB drivers and school divisions to transport their children to and from school safely and these collisions tend to attract a lot of media attention, the safety of these vehicles is a major concern not only for the authorities concerned but also for the general public. To ensure the safety of SB operations, it is necessary to identify the factors that contribute significantly to the likelihood or severity of these collisions. The authors find that violations of SB driver tend to increase crash severity whereas non-SB driver errors tend to decrease crash severity. Other factors that increase crash severity are frontal primary direction of force, head-on collision, female driver, unrestrained drivers, foggy/smoky weather, rural area, and traffic signal, whereas the factors that decrease crash severity are senior drivers, and slushy/snowy/icy road surface.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB10(6) School Transportation. Alternate title: Effects of Drivers' Action on Severity of School Bus Collisions.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01503729
Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3587
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Yasmin, ShamsunnaharAnowar, SabreenaTay, RichardPagination: 16p
Publication Date: 2014
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC Media Type: Digital/other
Features: References; Tables
TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-3587
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 27 2014 3:14PM
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