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L. Gerrish Evans's Degrees
- PhD Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
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- Traffic Safety and the Driver (1991) (788)
- The effectiveness of safety belts in preventing fatalities. (1986) (339)
- Risky driving related to driver and vehicle characteristics (1983) (324)
- Human behavior and traffic safety (2011) (228)
- Risk of fatality from physical trauma versus sex and age. (1988) (196)
- Double pair comparison--a new method to determine how occupant characteristics affect fatality risk in traffic crashes. (1986) (180)
- Involvement of older drivers in multivehicle side-impact crashes. (1990) (172)
- Do accident-involved drivers exhibit riskier everyday driving behavior? (1982) (162)
- Older driver involvement in fatal and severe traffic crashes. (1988) (162)
- The dominant role of driver behavior in traffic safety. (1996) (157)
- Safety-belt effectiveness: the influence of crash severity and selective recruitment. (1996) (154)
- Driver injury and fatality risk in two-car crashes versus mass ratio inferred using Newtonian mechanics. (1994) (152)
- Risks older drivers face themselves and threats they pose to other road users. (2000) (150)
- Traffic-law enforcement and risk of death from motor-vehicle crashes: case-crossover study (2003) (149)
- Human Behavior Feedback and Traffic Safety (1985) (141)
- Seating position in cars and fatality risk. (1988) (130)
- Restraint effectiveness, occupant ejection from cars, and fatality reductions. (1990) (124)
- Helmet effectiveness in preventing motorcycle driver and passenger fatalities. (1988) (123)
- Mass ratio and relative driver fatality risk in two-vehicle crashes. (1993) (102)
- Speed Estimation from a Moving Automobile (1970) (99)
- Female compared with male fatality risk from similar physical impacts. (2001) (82)
- Car size or car mass: which has greater influence on fatality risk? (1992) (76)
- The fraction of traffic fatalities attributable to alcohol. (1990) (73)
- Risk homeostasis theory and traffic accident data. (1986) (70)
- Antilock Brake Systems and Risk of Different Types of Crashes in Traffic (1999) (69)
- Motorcyclist fatalities and the repeal of mandatory helmet wearing laws. (1987) (64)
- Age and fatality risk from similar severity impacts (2001) (64)
- A new traffic safety vision for the United States. (2003) (63)
- Driver Behavior Effects on Fuel Consumption in Urban Driving (1979) (62)
- Fatality risk reduction from safety belt use. (1987) (57)
- Driver Behavior Effects on Fuel Consumption in Urban Driving (1978) (53)
- Multivariate Analysis of Traffic Factors Related to Fuel Consumption in Urban Driving (1976) (53)
- DRIVER FATALITIES VERSUS CAR MASS USING A NEW EXPOSURE APPROACH (1984) (52)
- Causal influence of car mass and size on driver fatality risk. (2001) (50)
- Serious or fatal driver injury rate versus car mass in head-on crashes between cars of similar mass. (1987) (50)
- Perceptual Thresholds in Car-Following---A Comparison of Recent Measurements with Earlier Results (1977) (49)
- Safety belt effectiveness in preventing driver fatalities versus a number of vehicular, accident, roadway and environmental factors (1986) (49)
- Antilock brakes and risk of front and rear impact in two-vehicle crashes. (1995) (48)
- Airbag effectiveness in preventing fatalities predicted according to type of crash, driver age, and blood alcohol concentration. (1989) (47)
- Young driver involvement in severe car crashes (1987) (44)
- Automobile Fuel Economy on Fixed Urban Driving Schedules (1978) (43)
- Rear seat restraint system effectiveness in preventing fatalities. (1985) (42)
- GASOLINE CONSUMPTION IN URBAN TRAFFIC (1976) (42)
- OLDER-DRIVER RISKS TO THEMSELVES AND TO OTHER ROAD USERS (1991) (40)
- Traffic fatality reductions: United States compared with 25 other countries. (2014) (39)
- Alcohol's effect on fatality risk from a physical insult. (1993) (39)
- Detection of the Sign of Relative Motion When following a Vehicle (1974) (37)
- Accident involvement rate and car size (1984) (36)
- Is it safer to fly or drive (1990) (35)
- GENDER AND AGE INFLUENCE ON FATALITY RISK FROM THE SAME PHYSICAL IMPACT DETERMINED USING TWO-CAR CRASHES (2001) (34)
- Car mass and fatality risk: has the relationship changed? (1994) (33)
- Estimating fatality reductions from increased safety belt use. (1987) (33)
- The Influence of Forward Vision and Target Size on Apparent Inter-Vehicular Spacing (1976) (32)
- EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF PERCEPTUAL THRESHOLDS IN CAR-FOLLOWING (1973) (31)
- Do Drivers of Small Cars Take Less Risk in Everyday Driving (1985) (30)
- BELTED AND UNBELTED DRIVER ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT RATES COMPARED (1986) (29)
- How safe were today's older drivers when they were younger? (1993) (27)
- Fatality risk for belted drivers versus car mass. (1985) (27)
- SEAT BELT USAGE AND RISK TAKING IN DRIVING BEHAVIOR (1980) (26)
- Fatal crashes involving large numbers of vehicles and weather. (2017) (25)
- Automobile-Speed Estimation Using Movie-film Simulation (1970) (23)
- DRIVER FATALITY RISK IN TWO-CAR CRASHES: DEPENDENCE ON MASSES OF DRIVEN AND STRIKING CAR (1993) (23)
- FATAL AND SEVERE CRASH INVOLVEMENT VERSUS DRIVER AGE AND SEX (1987) (22)
- COMMENTS ON DRIVER BEHAVIOR AND ITS ROLE IN TRAFFIC CRASHES (1993) (22)
- Car Mass and Likelihood of Occupant Fatality (1982) (21)
- Car Size and Safety: a Review Focused on Identifying Causative Factors (1994) (21)
- An attempt to categorize the main determinants of traffic safety (1990) (20)
- ABS and Relative Crash Risk Under Different Roadway, Weather, and Other Conditions (1995) (20)
- Potential fatality reductions through eliminating occupant ejection from cars. (1989) (19)
- Compulsory Seat Belt Usage and Driver Risk Taking Behavior (1981) (19)
- Note on Driver Adaptation to Modified Vehicle Starting Acceleration (1976) (19)
- Death in Traffic: Why Are the Ethical Issues Ignored? (2008) (18)
- Innate Sex Differences Supported by Untypical Traffic Fatalities (2006) (18)
- Involvement rate in two-car crashes versus driver age and car mass of each involved car. (1985) (15)
- Chinese Traffic Fatalities and Injuries in Police Reports, Hospital Records, and In-depth Records From One City (2015) (15)
- Twenty thousand more Americans killed annually because US traffic-safety policy rejects science. (2014) (15)
- How to Make a Car Lighter and Safer (2004) (14)
- Factors Controlling Traffic Crashes (1985) (14)
- Occupant protection device effectiveness-- Some conceptual considerations (1987) (14)
- PASSIVE COMPARED TO ACTIVE APPROACHES TO REDUCING OCCUPANT FATALITIES. 12TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLES, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, MAY 29-JUNE 1, 1989 (1989) (14)
- Influence of vehicle size and performance on intersection saturation flow (1983) (14)
- COMMENTS ON EFFECTS OF VEHICLE TYPE AND AGE ON DRIVER BEHAVIOR AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS (1976) (13)
- Traffic Crashes (2002) (13)
- Comments on Wilde's Notes on “Risk Homeostasis Theory and Traffic Accident Data” (1986) (12)
- CAR SIZE AND SAFETY : RESULTS FROM ANALYZING U.S. ACCIDENT DATA (1985) (12)
- Rear Compared to Front Seat Restraint System Effectiveness in Preventing Fatalities (1987) (11)
- Motorized two-point safety belt effectiveness in preventing fatalities. (1991) (11)
- Examination of some possible biases in double pair comparison estimates of safety belt effectiveness. (1988) (11)
- Driver age, car mass and accident exposure--a synthesis of available data. (1948) (11)
- Age Dependence of Female to Male Fatality Risk in the Same Crash: An Independent Reexamination (2000) (10)
- Relative fatality risk in different seating positions versus car model year. (1989) (10)
- Driver Behavior Revealed in Relations Involving Car Mass (1985) (9)
- Cycle helmets and the law (1994) (9)
- EXHAUST EMISSIONS, FUEL CONSUMPTION AND TRAFFIC: RELATIONS DERIVED FROM URBAN DRIVING SCHEDULE DATA (1979) (8)
- Epidemiology of the older driver: some preliminary findings from data through 1996 (1998) (8)
- A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO ESTIMATING DRIVER RESPONSIBILITY IN TWO-CAR CRASHES (1985) (8)
- A SIMPLIFIED APPROACH TO CALCULATION OF FUEL CONSUMPTION IN URBAN TRAFFIC SYSTEMS (1976) (7)
- The Dramatic Failure of U.S. Traffic Safety Policy: Engineering Is Important, Public Policy Is Crucial (2006) (7)
- Letter to the Editor---Fuel Consumption and Right Turn on Red: Comparison between Simple Model Results and Computer Simulation (1977) (7)
- Urban fuel economy: an alternate interpretation of recent computer simulation calculations (1978) (7)
- Fuel Used to Accelerate Vehicles from Rest to Cruising Speeds (1981) (6)
- THE OLDER DRIVER PROBLEM: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL OVERVIEW (1995) (6)
- Small Cars, Big Cars: What is the Safety Difference? (1994) (6)
- Uncertainties in Diesel Engine Health Effects (1983) (5)
- Accidents in History (1997) (5)
- Observations of fuel savings due to the introduction of right-turn on red (1977) (5)
- Airbag benefits, airbag costs (2004) (4)
- Occupant protection device effectiveness in preventing fatalities (1988) (4)
- Future predictions and traffic safety research (1993) (4)
- Alcohol's influence on fatality risk, given that a crash has occurred (1991) (4)
- Robertson’s review of Traffic Safety by Leonard Evans (2005) (4)
- Automobile Braking Energy, Acceleration and Speed in City Traffic (1980) (4)
- FACTORS INFLUENCING PEDESTRIAN AND MOTORCYCLIST FATALITY RISK (1991) (4)
- The effectiveness of safety belts and helmets (1995) (3)
- Effects of Varying the Levels of Nitrogen in the Inflation Gas of Tires on Laboratory Test Performance (2008) (3)
- Response to Barnett1 (1991) (3)
- Traffic safety measures, driver behavior responses, and surprising outcomes (1996) (3)
- Car Occupant Life Expectancy: Car Mass and Seat Belt Effects (1982) (3)
- HOW WE KNOW SAFETY BELTS REDUCE INJURY AND FATALITY RISKS (1995) (3)
- The science of traffic safety (1988) (3)
- RISK OF FATALITY FROM PHYSICAL TRAUMA VERSUS AGE AND SEX (1986) (2)
- Post-Symposium Reflections (1985) (2)
- The Law and Drunk Driving@@@Traffic Safety and the Driver@@@Drunk Driving: An American Dilemma@@@Traffic Safety Reform in the United States and Great Britain@@@Drinking and Driving: Advances in Research and Prevention (1992) (2)
- Traffic law enforcement and safety (2003) (2)
- What's in a word? (1999) (2)
- Urban Traffic, Fuel Economy and Emissions- Consistency of Various Measurements (1978) (2)
- TEENS SAY YES TO SAFE DRIVING (1993) (1)
- Age And Sex Effects On Severe And Fatal Injury Rates In Traffic Crashes (1988) (1)
- Terminology is important (2001) (1)
- Discussion of "the problem of compatibility in car-to-car collisions" by Thomas et at (1990) (1)
- Drivers Involved in Crashes Killing Older Road Users (2007) (1)
- On “Rotating” Ellipses Inside Triangles (1971) (1)
- ESTIMATING FATALITY REDUCTIONS FROM INCREASED SAFETY BELT USE (1990) (1)
- CAFE – why it is so difficult to estimate its effect on traffic fatalities and fuel use (2003) (1)
- Traffic deaths before and after birth. (2015) (0)
- LIGHTER VERSUS HEAVIER VEHICLES: INCREASED WEIGHT EQUALS INCREASED SAFETY (1992) (0)
- Death and injury from motor vehicle crashes: a tale of two countries. (2006) (0)
- Oral Discussion of Papers by John Adams and Murray Mackay (1985) (0)
- Traffic law enforcement and safety. Authors' reply (2003) (0)
- Traffic safety in the United States. Author's reply (2004) (0)
- Public policies determine traffic deaths and fuel use. (2007) (0)
- ANTI-LOCK BRAKING SYSTEMS (ABS) AND RELATIVE CRASH RISK UNDER DIFFERENT ROADWAY, WEATHER, AND OTHER CONDITIONS (1995) (0)
- TRUCKING THE ROAD TO SAFETY (1991) (0)
- AIRBAG BENEFITS, AIRBAG COSTS. IN: AIR BAGS AND BELT CONSTRAINTS (2004) (0)
- Traffic safety lessons ignored in confronting COVID-19 (2021) (0)
- Injuries in crashes : Reported compared to actual (2005) (0)
- VM20_05 The Theology of the Love Commandment (1977) (0)
- Multivariate Analysis of Traffic Factors (1976) (0)
- THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL TRUCK DRIVER INSTITUTE OF AMERICA. SPECIAL REPORT. DRIVER TRAINING & PROFESSIONALISM. (1990) (0)
- Sex and the Single-Vehicle Crash (2017) (0)
- CURBING THE SPEED FREAKS (1989) (0)
- A The role of perceptual and cognitive filters inobserved behaviorKare (2017) (0)
- What we do not know, hardly know, and really know about traffic safety (2015) (0)
- Thoughts on the possibility of a grand unification of traffic science (1990) (0)
- TRAFFIC SAFETY MEASURES, DRIVER BEHAVIOUR RESPONSES AND SURPRISING OUTCOMES. LECTURE GIVEN LONDON, 6TH DECEMBER 1994 (1994) (0)
- Cochairman’s Remarks Scope and Purpose of the Symposium (1985) (0)
- WHAT FRACTION OF ALL TRAFFIC DEATHS ARE DUE TO ALCOHOL ? (2014) (0)
- TrafficFatalityReductions:UnitedStatesComparedWith 25OtherCountries (2014) (0)
- 4 TRANSPORTATION SAFETY (2004) (0)
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