proceedings of the second international traffic conflicts technique workshop, may 1979

these proceedings contain the following papers: accident surrogates for use in analyzing highway safety hazards (datta,tk); risk exposure - structuring the need for risk exposure data for traffic accident analysis (nilsson,g); a quantitative definition of the near accident concept (balatha,d, hakkert,as and livneh,m); conflicts and accidents as tools for a safety diagnosis (malaterre,g and muhlrad,n); a microprocessor based system for traffic data collection (storr,p, wennell,j, mcdowell,mrc and cooper,d); empirical studies of driver-behaviour at t-junctions and use of a simulation model to study conflicts (wennell,j, storr,pa, darzentas,j and mcdowell,mrc); a study of observer variability and reliability in the detection and grading of traffic conflicts (lightburn,a and howarth,ci); variations in vehicle conflicts at a t-junction and comparison with recorded collisions (spicer,b, wheeler,a and older,sj); the validation of a conflict observation technique for child pedestrians in residential areas (guttinger,va); traffic conflicts experience in denmark (ludvigsen,hs); a pilot study of conflicts at a t-junction on winter evening rush-hours (darzentas,j, holmes,v and mcdowell,mrc); conflict research in traffic (hofner,kj and schutzenhofer,a); evaluation of a new design of pedestrian crossing with tct (schutzenhofer,a); pedestrian conflict technique (gstalter,h); traffic conflicts at urban junctions (zimolong,b). for abstract of paper by spicer,b, wheeler,a and older,sj see irrd 248519. (continued on irrd 248612).