Abstract
dc:description.abstractThroughout the past six decades, the predominant mode of student transport has shifted from walking to riding in a school bus or personal vehicle which has impacted both the safety and efficiency of school zone traffic control strategies. In order to improve school zone operations in West Virginia, current warrants and laws relevant to school zones within West Virginia and other states are researched. Concerns are characterized with respect to traffic efficiency and safety parameters and are addressed in a survey polling county and district transportation officials throughout West Virginia. In addition, school zone crash data provided by the Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) is analyzed for Ohio and North Carolina to gain a better understanding of the cause and nature of school zone crashes. Through multidisciplinary cooperation, school zone traffic control strategies should implement uniform procedures that target driver awareness and education on their actions and the effect they have on safety and efficiency and how the two issues are interrelated.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MS
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Year dc:date.available
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hamric, Karly R.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- David R. Martinelli
- Michael Pumphrey
- Avinash Unnikrishnan
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/160
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1163