Applications of Knowledge Discovery in Massive Transportation Data: The Development of a Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP). (2019)
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Majka, K., Nagler, E., James, A., Blatt, A., Pierowicz, J., Anastasopoulos, P. . C., & Fountas, G. (2019). Applications of Knowledge Discovery in Massive Transportation Data: The Development of a Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP). Federal Highway Administration

Transportation researchers and practitioners have access to unprecedented amounts of data but lack the tools to easily store, manipulate, and analyze these data. The Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP) is an informatics-based system d... Read More about Applications of Knowledge Discovery in Massive Transportation Data: The Development of a Transportation Research Informatics Platform (TRIP)..

Analysis of accident injury-severities using a correlated random parameters ordered probit approach with time variant covariates (2018)
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Fountas, G., Anastasopoulos, P. C., & Abdel-Aty, M. (2018). Analysis of accident injury-severities using a correlated random parameters ordered probit approach with time variant covariates. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 18, 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2018.04.003

This paper employs a correlated random parameters ordered probit modeling framework to explore time-variant and time-invariant factors affecting injury-severity outcomes in single-vehicle accidents. The proposed approach extends traditional random pa... Read More about Analysis of accident injury-severities using a correlated random parameters ordered probit approach with time variant covariates.

Analysis of vehicle accident-injury severities: A comparison of segment- versus accident-based latent class ordered probit models with class-probability functions (2018)
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Fountas, G., Anastasopoulos, P. C., & Mannering, F. L. (2018). Analysis of vehicle accident-injury severities: A comparison of segment- versus accident-based latent class ordered probit models with class-probability functions. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 18, 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2018.03.003

Using information from 1990 single-vehicle accidents that occurred between 2011 and 2013 in the state of Washington, the injury severity level of the most severely injured vehicle occupant is studied using two latent class modeling approaches: segmen... Read More about Analysis of vehicle accident-injury severities: A comparison of segment- versus accident-based latent class ordered probit models with class-probability functions.

Analysis of stationary and dynamic factors affecting highway accident occurrence: A dynamic correlated grouped random parameters binary logit approach (2018)
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Fountas, G., Sarwar, M. T., Anastasopoulos, P. C., Blatt, A., & Majka, K. (2018). Analysis of stationary and dynamic factors affecting highway accident occurrence: A dynamic correlated grouped random parameters binary logit approach. Accident analysis and prevention, 113, 330-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.05.018

Traditional accident analysis typically explores non-time-varying (stationary) factors that affect accident occurrence on roadway segments. However, the impact of time-varying (dynamic) factors is not thoroughly investigated. This paper seeks to simu... Read More about Analysis of stationary and dynamic factors affecting highway accident occurrence: A dynamic correlated grouped random parameters binary logit approach.

Effectiveness of various public private partnership pavement rehabilitation treatments: A big data informatics survival analysis of pavement service life (2017)
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David, D., Fountas, G., Sarwar, M. T., Eker, U., Akpinar, S., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2017). Effectiveness of various public private partnership pavement rehabilitation treatments: A big data informatics survival analysis of pavement service life. US Department of Transportation Office of the UTC Program

Past research efforts have used a wide variety of methodological approaches to analyze pavement performance indicators, pavement rehabilitation treatments, and pavement service life. Using big data informatics methods, the intent of this study is to... Read More about Effectiveness of various public private partnership pavement rehabilitation treatments: A big data informatics survival analysis of pavement service life.

Simultaneous estimation of discrete outcome and continuous dependent variable equations: A bivariate random effects modeling approach with unrestricted instruments (2017)
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Sarwar, M. T., Fountas, G., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2017). Simultaneous estimation of discrete outcome and continuous dependent variable equations: A bivariate random effects modeling approach with unrestricted instruments. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 16, 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2017.05.002

This paper proposes a novel methodology to simultaneously model discrete outcome (binary) and continuous dependent variables. The proposed modeling framework addresses unobserved heterogeneity by accounting for both panel effects, and for contemporan... Read More about Simultaneous estimation of discrete outcome and continuous dependent variable equations: A bivariate random effects modeling approach with unrestricted instruments.

A random thresholds random parameters hierarchical ordered probit analysis of highway accident injury-severities (2017)
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Fountas, G., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2017). A random thresholds random parameters hierarchical ordered probit analysis of highway accident injury-severities. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 15, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2017.03.002

This study uses highway accident data collected in the State of Washington, between 2011 and 2013, to study the factors that affect accident injury-severities. To account for the fixed thresholds limitation of the traditional ordered probability mode... Read More about A random thresholds random parameters hierarchical ordered probit analysis of highway accident injury-severities.

Project Discrepancies in Roadway Construction and Preservation: A Statistical Analysis of Public–Private Partnership Contract Types in the US (2017)
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Nahidi, S., Fountas, G., Sarvani, S. P., Sarwar, M. T., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2017). Project Discrepancies in Roadway Construction and Preservation: A Statistical Analysis of Public–Private Partnership Contract Types in the US. Frontiers in Built Environment, 3, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2017.00015

At the planning stage of a roadway construction or preservation project, public agencies face a crucial challenge; to adopt and implement the appropriate contractual framework that can minimize the anticipated project discrepancies, on the basis of p... Read More about Project Discrepancies in Roadway Construction and Preservation: A Statistical Analysis of Public–Private Partnership Contract Types in the US.

Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates (2017)
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Sarwar, M. T., Fountas, G., Bentley, C., Anastasopoulos, P. C., Blatt, A., Pierowicz, J., Majka, K., & Limoges, R. (2017). Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates. Transportation research record, 2659, 182-191. https://doi.org/10.3141/2659-20

This paper, with the use of data from the SHRP 2 naturalistic driving study, provides a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of high-visibility crosswalks (HVCs) in improving pedestrian safety at un-controlled locations. This evaluation was ac... Read More about Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates.