Use of Expert Panels in Highway Safety A Critique Academic Article

abstract

• Expert panels have been used extensively in the development of the Highway Safety Manual to extract research information from highway safety experts. While the panels have been used to recommend agendas for new and continuing research, their primary role has been to develop accident modification factors-quantitative relationships between highway safety and various highway safety treatments. Because the expert panels derive quantitative information in a qualitative environment and because their findings can have significant impacts on highway safety investment decisions, the expert panel process should be described and critiqued. This paper is the first known written description and critique of the expert panel process and is intended to serve professionals wishing to conduct such panels.

authors

• Lord, Dominique

published proceedings

• TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD

author list (cited authors)

• Washington, S. P., Lord, D., & Persaud, B. N.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• Washington, Simon P||Lord, Dominique||Persaud, Bhagwant N

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Transportation Research Record  Journal

keywords

• Patient Safety

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3141/2102-13

start page

• 101

end page

• 107

volume

• 2102

issue

• 2102

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.3141%2F2102-13