Improving commercial vehicle crash data quality in West Virginia

The purpose of this study was to identify methods to improve commercial carrier crash data in West Virginia including coal trucks. All organizations and agencies involved with commercial carrier safety need ready access to basic data describing the crash-involved operator, vehicle, and environment. Such data are necessary to any programmatic or engineering countermeasures. The basic approach used to accomplish the research objectives involved a series of regional meetings where law enforcement personnel expressed their opinions about ways to improve commercial vehicle crash data quality. These results were then weighted and prioritized. The top five solutions generated at these meetings were: (1) In-Service Training; (2) Training at West Virginia State Police Academy; (3) "Cheat Sheet"; (4) On-Site Fatal Team available for crashes involving commercial vehicles and (5) Roll Call Materials.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2000

Author dc:creator

• Gillespie, Kris Sean

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gary Winn
• Hema Siriwardane.

• Civil engineering
• Criminology

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/1072

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-2075