Surrogate Measures of Safety

The most recent document in this area is the Review of current study methods for VRU safety (Appendix 6) of the InDeV research project.

The following PhD theses are also very good starting points to understand the topic, in particular the work of Svensson which bridges the traditional traffic conflict techniques and new, more disaggregated, approaches.

• Bagadadi, O. The development of methods for detection and assessment of safety critical events in car driving, 2012 http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A674143&dswid=2561 (warnings about the unclear vocabulary and limited sample sizes)
• Laureshyn, A. Application of automated video analysis to road user behaviour Lund University, 2010 http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1522969&fileOId=1522970 (Paper 1 on p 93 (unpublished as far as I know) provides a very exhaustive list of safety indicators)
• Svensson, A. A Method for Analyzing the Traffic Process in a Safety Perspective University of Lund, 1998. http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=18638&fileOId=1653512
• Ismail, K. Application of computer vision techniques for automated road safety analysis and traffic data collection University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29546
• Archer, J. Methods for the Assessment and Prediction of Traffic Safety at Urban Intersections and their Application in Micro-simulation Modelling Royal Institute of Technology, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-143
• Cunto, F. Assessing Safety Performance of Transportation Systems using Microscopic Simulation University of Waterloo, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4111

Other efforts:

• white paper by the TRB subcommittee on surrogate measures of safety: https://wiki.umn.edu/pub/TRB_ANB203/WebHome/Surrogate_Measures_of_Safety_-_A_White_Paper_2009.pdf
• the software tool to evaluate traffic micro-simulation in terms of safety: SSAM from FHWA (reports http://www.tfhrc.gov/safety/pubs/03050/index.htm http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/08051/)

Old documents:

• FHWA's manual: Traffic Conflict Techniques for Safety and Operations: Observer's Manual http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/88027/index.cfm

I wrote lecture notes for a course given at McGill and online in Canada's national transportation course: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/179169/notes-surrogates.pdf

The official website of the TRB Subcommittee on Surrogate Measures of Safety (SMoS) is at https://sites.google.com/site/surrogatesafety/.