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TRA395 TRA395 Traffic safety epidemiology lp3 VT24 (7.5 hp)

Course is offered by the department of Tracks

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Learning objectives and syllabus

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General learning outcomes for Tracks courses:

• master problems with open solutions spaces which includes to be able to handle uncertainties and limited information
• to work in multidisciplinary teams and collaborate in teams with different compositions
• to critically and creatively identify and/or formulate advanced engineering problems
• to identify ethical aspects and discuss and judge their consequences in relation to the specific problem
• to orally and in writing explain and discuss information, problems, methods, design/development processes and solutions.

1. describe and reflect on the concepts of safe system, safety footprint and vision zero
2. perform an induced exposure safety benefit assessment
3. describe how Trafikverket works with the safe traffic (safe system)
4. develop injury risk functions based on crash data and biomechanical data
5. describe how health and permanent disability can be measured
6. describe the use of the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and other injury classification schemas
7. describe state-of-the-art of injury risk assessment using human body models
8. describe and use the dose-response model to assess safety solutions
9. describe and reflect on different types of data used for traffic safety analysis, including the pros and cons of different types of datasets and specific datasets, including
   1. crash databases
   2. naturalistic driving data
   3. insurance data
   4. describe what pre-crash-matrix data is and how to work with it
   5. the use of event data recorder (EDR) data for traffic safety analysis ¿ possibilities and challenges
10. calculate the safety benefit of safety solutions using database data
11. apply frequentist statistical methods for traffic safety analysis
12. describe the role of p-values in frequentist statistics
13. apply Bayesian statistical methods for traffic safety analysis including Bayesian confidence intervals, Metropolis-Hastings algorithms, MCMC, model selection Hierarchical models
14. describe the difference between frequentist and Bayesian statistics
15. describe and consider sampling bias in traffic safety analysis
16. use propensity weighting and other weighting procedures in traffic safety analysis
17. use bootstrapping in traffic safety analysis for variance estimates
18. describe how virtual simulations can be used to assess the benefit of pre-crash safety solutions
19. perform traffic safety analysis and adequately formulate conclusions with limitations based on the results.

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