The effect of traffic policing on road safety in Israel

Beenstock, Michael; Gafni, Dalit; Goldin, Ephraim

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(00)00017-8

Cited by 16 publications

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“…4 In practice, the solution to this problem in the United States has been to continue to locate such uses on arterial thoroughfares, but to reduce posted speed limits. In the absence of aggressive police enforcement, however, such practices have been uniformly unsuccessful at reducing vehicle operating speeds (Armour, 1986;Beenstock, Gafni, & Goldin, 2001;Zaal, 1994). The principal alternative, adopted by European designers, is to design urban surface streets to reduce vehicle speeds to safe levels.…”

Section: Numbers Of Parcels In Retail and Commercial Uses Along Artermentioning

confidence: 99%

Safe Urban Form: Revisiting the Relationship Between Community Design and Traffic Safety

Dumbaugh

Rae

2009

Journal of the American Planning Association

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Section: Numbers Of Parcels In Retail and Commercial Uses Along Artermentioning

confidence: 99%

Safe Urban Form: Revisiting the Relationship Between Community Design and Traffic Safety

Dumbaugh

Rae

2009

Journal of the American Planning Association

213

106

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“…This approach, derived from an erroneous interpretation of crash statistics in the 1960s (Dumbaugh 2005a), directs the current approach to safe roadway design, despite a growing body of evidence indicating that conventional higherspeed designs negatively affect safety for pedestrians and motorists alike (Dumbaugh 2006;Miles-Doan and Thompson 1999;Noland 2001;Noland and Oh 2004;Ossenbruggen, Pendharkar and Ivan 2001;Pucher andDijkstra 2000, 2003). Attempts to reduce operating speeds to safe levels solely though the adoption of speed limits is largely ineffective in the absence of aggressive police enforcement (Armour 1986;Beenstock, Gafni, and Goldin 2001;Britt, Bergman, and Moffat 1995;Zaal 1994), with more than 75 percent of drivers in urban environments being observed to exceed posted speed limits, often by substantial margins (Chowdhury et al 1998;Fitzpatrick et al 2003;Fitzpatrick, Shamburger, and Fambro 1996;Tarris, Mason, and Antonucci 2000).…”

Section: Vehicle Speeds and The Safety Of Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Communities to Enhance the Safety and Mobility of Older Adults

Dumbaugh

2008

Journal of Planning Literature

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By 2030, seventy-two million people, or fully one of every five Americans, will be aged sixty-five or older, raising important concerns about how our cities, communities, and transportation facilities will safety accommodate their travel needs. The current policy solution is to increase driver testing, provide senior-oriented paratransit services, and ultimately, to house older, nondriving adults in senior care communities where more mobile individuals can provide basic household-related services for them. These practices, while perhaps well intentioned, effectively segregate older adults from the larger community. We can do better. This article summarizes the available literature on the travelrelated needs, abilities, and preferences of older adults. Through a synthesis of the current knowledge, it identifies four strategies that can be used to design communities and transportation systems to address the safety and mobility needs of an aging population in an inclusive, universal manner.

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“…It was found that the dramatic decrease in enforcement is associated with a significant increase in injuries and fatalities. Another study found that while large‐scale enforcement reduces crashes, small‐scale enforcement has no impact on the roadway safety 19 . Effectiveness of enforcement resources on reduction of fatality rate was investigated in another study 20 .…”

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Contributory factors to truck crashes considering enforcement types, accounting for the enforcement endogeneity

Rezapour¹,

Ksaibati²

2022

Engineering Reports

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The U.S. economy depends on trucking industry for timely delivery of goods and product. However, the performance of the industry has been crippled by the tremendous costs of crashes. Despite the efforts in studying factors leading to truck crashes, a comprehensive study considering enforcement efforts on the safety of the trucking industry is very limited. Thus, this study contributes to the body of knowledge by studying underling factors causing truck crashes, while considering various types of citations. To account for subjectivity of the highway patrol in allocating their resources to specific locations, such as adjustment of their locations to better capture the violators, we considered the interaction terms between citation types and various geometric characteristics. That is especially important as the majority of past studies ignored the endogeneity of highway patrol in allocating the resources to particular locations. Also, to account for both aspects of truck crashes, including severity and frequency, equivalent property damage only were used as the response. The results highlighted, for instance, that interaction terms between commercial motor vehicle citations and presence of horizontal curve, or the interaction between the curve length and speed‐related citations are factors impacting the safety of truck‐related crashes. The results provided evidence that indeed highway patrol allocates their resources to locations with particular geometric characteristics, and ignoring those interaction terms is likely to result in biased point estimates. We discuss the implications of the findings that solely highlighting that the enforcement resources are negatively or positively correlated with crashes could not provide much information, and the inclusion of particular enforcement types with related interaction term could help highway patrol to amend their performance based on their discretion.

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The effect of traffic policing on road safety in Israel

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Safe Urban Form: Revisiting the Relationship Between Community Design and Traffic Safety

Safe Urban Form: Revisiting the Relationship Between Community Design and Traffic Safety

Designing Communities to Enhance the Safety and Mobility of Older Adults

Contributory factors to truck crashes considering enforcement types, accounting for the enforcement endogeneity

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