An evaluation of the 1979 Texas law (V.C.S., Sec. 73.A.) which requires frontage road traffic to yield at freeway ramps. Interim report.

Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Transportation Planning Division, Austin

FHWA highway traffic noise prediction model. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

User's manual: FHWA highway traffic noise prediction model - SNAP 1.0. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Environmental Design and Control Division, Washington, D.C.

User's manual: FHWA Level 2 highway traffic noise prediction model - STAMINA 1.0. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Environmental Design and Control Division, Washington, D.C.

Update of TSC highway traffic noise prediction code (1974). Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

User's manual, FHWA level 2 highway traffic noise prediction model, stamina 1.0 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Statistical analysis of FHWA traffic noise data : final report /

Mode of access: Internet.

Update of TSC highway traffic noise prediction code (1974) /

Mode of access: Internet.

The economic costs of road traffic crashes: Australia, states and territories

In this paper, we obtain detailed data on road traffic crash (RTC) casualties, by severity, for each of the eight state and territory jurisdictions for Australia and use these to estimate and compare the economic impact of RTCs across these regions. We show that the annual cost of RTCs in Australia, in 2003, was approximately $17b, which is approximately 2.3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Importantly, though, there is remarkable intra-national variation in the incident rates of RTCs in Australia and costs range from approximately 0.62 to 3.63% of Gross State Product (GSP). The paper makes two fundamental contributions: (i) it provides a detailed breakdown of estimated RTC casualties, by state and territory regions in Australia, and (ii) it presents the first sub-national breakdown of RTC costs for Australia. We trust that these contributions will assist policy-makers to understand sub-national variations in the road toll better and will encourage further research on the causes of the marked differences between RTC outcomes across the states and territories of Australia. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A redesign of a road traffic accident reporting system using business process simulation

Business process simulation (BPS) is used to evaluate the effect of the redesign of a police road traffic accident (RTA) reporting system. The new system aims to provide timely statistical analysis of traffic behaviour to government bodies and to enable more effective utilisation of traffic police personnel. The simulation method is demonstrated in the context of assisting process change enabled by the use of information systems in an organisation in which there had been a historically mixed pattern of success in this activity.