Dorcas Okaidjah

ORCID: 0000-0002-9410-995X
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Research Areas
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
  • Traffic control and management
  • Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Safety Warnings and Signage
  • Elevator Systems and Control
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Topic Modeling
  • IoT and GPS-based Vehicle Safety Systems

Iowa State University
2022-2024

This study makes a methodological contribution by exploring the relationship between motor vehicle traffic crashes at intersections and built environment. The focuses on specific neighborhoods within city of Des Moines, Iowa, with contrasting socio-economic characteristics to examine variation neighborhoods. Exploratory spatial data analysis was used locate crash clusters using seven-year (2013–2019) obtained from Iowa Department Transportation. Google Street View survey environment...

10.1177/03611981221108392 article EN Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2022-08-01

Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) are used to convey information on various traffic conditions such as lane closure, incident, travel times, etc. Some agencies use a variety of "default" messages in lieu any message, which sometimes the number road fatalities within jurisdiction, is thought encourage safer driving. To investigate whether influence driver speeds proximity DMS, comparison was undertaken using connected vehicle data. The study conducted across 26 DMS locations Iowa where were...

10.1109/itsc57777.2023.10421904 article EN 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 2023-09-24

This study investigates relationships between congestion and travel time performance metrics crashes on road segments. The focuses work zone routes in Iowa, utilizing 2021 commercially-available probe vehicle data crash data. Travel were derived from the data, counts obtained Additional variables included characteristics (traffic volume, type, segment length) a categorical variable for presence of zone. A mixed effect linear regression model was employed to identify selected metrics....

10.4236/jtts.2023.134027 article EN Journal of Transportation Technologies 2023-01-01
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