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Gary A. Davis
Professor
Contact Information:
- Office: CivE 140
- Phone: (612)625-2598
- Fax: (612)626-7750
- E-mail: drtrips@umn.edu
Research Interests:
Causal inference and impact assessment in traffic safety; application of accident investigation and reconstruction methods to address traffic engineering questions; using Bayesian statistical methods in traffic and transportation engineering; application of optimization methods to problems in traffic engineering and transportation planning.
Selected Publications:
Davis, G.A. and Swenson, T. 2006. Collective responsibility for freeway rear-ending accidents? An application of probabilistic causal models. Accident Analysis and Prevention, in press.
Davis, G.A., Davuluri, S., and Pei, J-P. 2006. Speed as a risk factor in serious run-off road crashes: Bayesian case-control analysis with case speed uncertainty. Journal of Transportation and Statistics, in press.
Davis, G.A. and Pei, J-P. 2005. Bayesian reconstruction of median-crossing crashes and potential effectiveness of cable barriers. Transportation Research Record, 1908: 141-148.
Davis, G.A. 2004. Possible aggregation biases in road safety research and a mechanism approach to accident modeling. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 36: 1119-1127.
Davis, G.A. and Swenson, T. 2004. A field study of gap acceptance by left-turning drivers. Transportation Research Record, 1899: 71-75.
Davis, G.A. 2003. Bayesian reconstruction of traffic accidents. Law, Probability and Risk, 2: 69-89.
Davis, G.A. 2002. Towards a unified approach to causal analysis in traffic safety using structural causal models. Transportation and Traffic Theory in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, M. Taylor (ed.) Pergamon, 247-65.
Davis, G.A. 2002. Is the claim that ‘variance kills’ an ecological fallacy? Accident Analysis and Prevention, 34: 343-6.
Davis, G.A. 2001. Using Bayesian networks to identify the causal effect of speeding in individual vehicle/pedestrian collisions. Proceedings of 17th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, J. Breese and D. Koller (eds.) Morgan-Kaufmann, 105-11.
Davis, G.A. 2001. A simple threshold model relating pedestrian injury severity to impact speed in vehicle/pedestrian crashes. Transportation Research Record, 1773: 108-13.
Education:
- B.A., 1973, Psychology/Philosophy, Eastern Washington University
- M.S., 1980, Experimental Psychology, Eastern Washington University
- M.S., 1985, Civil Engineering, University of Washington
- Ph. D., 1989, Civil Engineering, University of Washington
Experience:
- Visiting Researcher, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden, 1986-87
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