Florida has the highest number of motorcycle fatalities in the United States. Florida also contains the second largest population of registered motorcycles of any state. In recent years the Federal Hi..
Florida has the highest number of motorcycle fatalities in the United States. Florida also contains the second largest population of registered motorcycles of any state. In recent years the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has developed safety performance functions (SPFs), or mathematical models for identifying locations and predicting the number of crashes over a highway segment. Existing SPFs are not currently used solely for motorcycle crash prediction; this study aims to develop SPFs for different degrees of severity in motorcycle crashes in Florida. Historical crash data will be used to develop the SPFs before the pandemic (2018-2019) as a baseline; the two-year crash data (2020-2021) will be used for the SPFs during the pandemic. The objective is to compare pre and post pandemic crash predictions using the SPFs. The results from the models formulated throughout this study can be used to mitigate motorcycle crashes and fatalities in the state of Florida.
