Industry Affiliation Program for
Human Factors in Transportation Safety

Accident Analyses

Using a Virtual Tool to Assess Crash Contributing Factors: Presence of Artificial Lighting Coded by Google Street View and PARs (Stafford, Whetsel, Flannagan, and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2012-34, December 2012.

Heavy Trucks, Conspicuity Treatment, and the Decline of Collision Risk in Darkness (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2011-18, September 2011.

Benefits of Daytime Running Lights (Sivak and Schoettle), Report No. UMTRI-2011-6, February 2011.

Headlamps and Pedestrian Injuries (Sivak and Schoettle), Report No. UMTRI-2010-6, November 2010.

Relationships Between Lighting and Animal-Vehicle Collisions (Sullivan), Report No. UMTRI-2009-35, October 2009.

Relationships Among Driver Age, Vehicle Cost, and Fatal Nighttime Crashes (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2009-4, March 2009.

Trends in Fatal Crashes in Darkness: 1990 to 2006 (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2008-33, May 2008.

Mirror Size and Lane-Change Crashes (Sivak, Devonshire, Flannagan, and Reed), Report No. UMTRI-2008-32, May 2008.

Moon Phases and Nighttime Road Crashes Involving Pedestrians (Sivak, Schoettle, and Tsimhoni), Report No. UMTRI-2007-41, September 2007.

Truck Mirrors, Fields of View, and Serious Truck Crashes (Blower), Report No. UMTRI-2007-25, June 2007.

Characteristics of Nighttime Pedestrian Crashes: Implications for Headlighting (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2007-3, May 2007.

Mirror-Mounted Turn Signals and Traffic Safety (Sivak, Schoettle, and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2006-33, November 2006.

Body-Pillar Vision Obstructions and Lane-Change Crashes (Sivak, Schoettle, Reed, and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2006-29, September 2006.

Effects of Dedicated Stop Lamps on Nighttime Rear-End Collisions (Luoma, Sivak, and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2006-15, May 2006.

Implications of Fatal and Nonfatal Crashes for Adaptive Headlighting (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2006-1, April 2006.

Influence of the Visibility Out of the Vehicle Cabin on Lane-Change Crashes (Sivak, Schoettle, Reed, and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2005-32, November 2005.

Further Crash Evidence About the Nighttime Visibility of Trucks (Sullivan), Report No. UMTRI-2005-22, September 2005.

Visibility and Rear-End Collisions Involving Light Vehicles and Trucks (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2004-14, June 2004.

A Worldwide Perspective on Future Automobile Lighting (Rumar), Report No. UMTRI-2001-35, November 2001.

Characteristics of Pedestrian Risk in Darkness (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-2001-33, November 2001.

Effects of Nonplanar Driver-Side Mirrors on Lane Change Crashes (Luoma, Flannagan, and Sivak), Report No. UMTRI-2000-26, June 2000.

Assessing the Potential Benefit of Adaptive Headlighting Using Crash Databases (Sullivan and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-99-21, September 1999.

Are Driver-Side Convex Mirrors Helpful or Harmful? (Schumann, Sivak, and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-96-7, March 1996.

Drivers' Vision, Age, and Gender as Factors in Twilight Road Fatalities (Owens and Brooks), Report No. UMTRI-95-44, November 1995.

Effects of Driver-Side Mirror Type on Lane-Change Accidents (Luoma, Sivak, and Flannagan), Report No. UMTRI-94-34, November 1994.

The Role of Reduced Visibility in Nighttime Road Fatalities (Owens and Sivak), Report No. UMTRI-93-33, November 1993.