Commercial Motor Vehicles' Safety - A California Perspective

Findings of an examination of commercial motor vehicle crashes in California are reported. The basic descriptive statistics associated with truck-involved crashes in California were reviewed using the Statewide Incident Tracking and Reporting System (SWITRS) database. Truck-involved crashes in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area were also investigated. Rates of truck accidents across California were examined to determine the risk factors involved, including exposure to truck crashes, environmental conditions and demographic factors. The investigation involves modeling crashes as a function of these risk factors based on SWITRS data between 1998 and 2004. The results point to a high likelihood that the heavily urbanized counties of the San Francisco Bay Area and greater Los Angeles are actually less dangerous for trucks than the state’s rural counties, especially in the state’s northern half.

• Record URL:
  http://www.path.berkeley.edu/PATH/Publications/PDF/PWP/2010/PWP-2010-01.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1720

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814

  University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  School of Policy, Planning and Development
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089-0626
• Authors:
  • Giuliano, Genevieve
  • Zhou, Jiangping
  • McFerrin, Peter
  • Miller, Mark A
• Publication Date: 2009-10-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 32p
• Serial:
  • PATH Research Report
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Highway safety; Rural areas; Truck crashes; Truck drivers; Trucks; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01164005
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PWP-2010-1
• Contract Numbers: Task Order 6105
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 27 2010 7:31AM