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Transportation accidents

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• Accidents

• Transportation accidents -- Investigation
• Aircraft accidents
• Railroad accidents
• Steamboat disasters
• Traffic accidents
• Transportation -- Safety measures

• Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370 (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2016), by Samuel Davey, Neil Gordon, Ian Holland, Mark Rutten, and Jason Williams (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Safety in the Skies: Personnel and Parties in NTSB Aviation Accident Investigations, by Cynthia C. Lebow, Liam P. Sarsfield, William L. Stanley, Emile Ettedgui, and Garth Henning (PDF at rand.org)

• Investigation Report: Formal Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on 3 July 1988 (redacted declassified release; Washington: US Dept. of Defense, originally prepared 1988), by William M. Fogarty (PDF at dod.mil)
• Iran Air Flight 655 Compensation: Hearings Before the Defense Policy Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Hearings Held August 3 and 4, September 9, and October 6, 1988 (Washington: GPO, 1989), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Shootdown of KAL 007: Moscow's Charges, and the Record (ca. 1983), by United States Information Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370 (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2016), by Samuel Davey, Neil Gordon, Ian Holland, Mark Rutten, and Jason Williams (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Notes on Railroad Accidents (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879), by Charles Francis Adams
  • HTML at catskillarchive.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Railroad Accidents: Their Causes and the Means of Preventing Them (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Emile With, trans. by G. Forrester Barstow, contrib. by Auguste Perdonnet (page images at MOA)

• The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Great Railway Catastrophe of the 12th March, 1857, on the Desjardin Canal Bridge, on the Line of the Great Western Railway, by Harriet Annie Wilkins (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Proceedings of a Meeting, and Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Cleveland, in Relation to Steamboat Disasters on the Western Lakes, by Cleveland Committee on Steam Navigation on the western lakes (page images at MOA)

• Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (Lansing, MI: D.D. Thorp, 1892), by Chester D. Berry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Great Gatsby (first edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Automobile Collision Data: An Assessment of Needs and Methods of Acquisition (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Traffic Safety and the Driver (1991), by Leonard Evans (HTML at scienceservingsociety.com)

• Selective Traffic Enforcement Program: STEP-BAC Study in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (final report prepared for US Dept. of Transportation, 1976), by W. N. Taubenslag and M. J. Taubenslag (page images at HathiTrust)

• Automobile Accident Costs and Payments: Studies in the Economics of Injury Reparation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1964), by Alfred F. Conard, James N. Morgan, Robert W. Pratt, Charles E. Voltz, and Robert L. Bombaugh (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Help for the Auto Accident Victim (Miami: I. Adels, c1984), by Charles R. Lipcon (PDF with commentary at lipcon.com)

• Automobile Accident Costs and Payments: Studies in the Economics of Injury Reparation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1964), by Alfred F. Conard, James N. Morgan, Robert W. Pratt, Charles E. Voltz, and Robert L. Bombaugh (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• The Ten Biggest Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Washington Accident Case (second edition, c2007), by Christopher M. Davis (PDF at injurytriallawyer.com)

• Traffic Safety (2004), by Leonard Evans (HTML at scienceservingsociety.com)
• Traffic Safety and the Driver (1991), by Leonard Evans (HTML at scienceservingsociety.com)
• Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Moving Ahead: 1991 Surface Transportation Legislation (OTA-SET-496; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• What Every Driver Must Know, by Michigan Department of State (PDF at michigan.gov)

• Traffic Safety (2004), by Leonard Evans (HTML at scienceservingsociety.com)

• Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Ten Biggest Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Washington Accident Case (second edition, c2007), by Christopher M. Davis (PDF at injurytriallawyer.com)

• Automobile Accident Costs and Payments: Studies in the Economics of Injury Reparation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1964), by Alfred F. Conard, James N. Morgan, Robert W. Pratt, Charles E. Voltz, and Robert L. Bombaugh (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• The Operation Paget Inquiry Report Into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (2006), by Great Britain Metropolitan Police Service (PDF at the BBC)

• Cities Safer by Design: Guidance and Examples to Promote Traffic Safety Through Urban and Street Design (version 1.0; Washington: World Resources Institute, 2015), by Ben Welle, Qingnan Liu, Wei Li, Robin King, Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Claudio Sarmiento, and Marta Obelheiro (PDF with commentary at wri.org)

• Departmental Committee on Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland: Interim Report (London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Ministry of Transport (page images at HathiTrust)

• What Every Driver Must Know, by Michigan Department of State (PDF at michigan.gov)

• Handbook for a Field Research Program for Driver's License Law Enforcement: User Guidelines and Handbook (DOT HS-800 842; Washington: US Dept. of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1973), by John P. McGuire (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Commonwealth ex Rel. James Todd, vs. the Allegheny Bridge Co'y: Quo Warranto, Brief for Defendant (ca. 1850), by Allegheny Bridge Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paper Book of the Defendants: Commonwealth vs. the President, Managers and Company, For Erecting a Bridge Over the Allegheny River, Opposite the City of Pittsburgh, in the County of Allegheny (ca. 1850), by Allegheny Bridge Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pedal Power: A Legal Guide for Oregon Bicyclists, by Ray Thomas (PDF at stc-law.com)

• Railroad Safety: U.S.-Canadian Comparison (OTA-T-95; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Description of an Artificial Hand (also includes his "Practical Remarks on Aerial Navigation" and "Essay on the Means of Promoting Safety in Railway Carriages"; London: Tyler and Reed, 1845), by George Cayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Railroad Safety: U.S.-Canadian Comparison (OTA-T-95; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad Safety: U.S.-Canadian Comparison (OTA-T-95; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Evaluation of Railroad Safety (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Grade Severity Rating System (GSRS): Users Manual (McLean, VA: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1989), by Brian L. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safety Design and Operational Practices for Streets and Highways (technology sharing report 80-228; Washington: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1980), by Neilon J. Rowan, D. L. Woods, Vergil G. Stover, D. A. Anderson, and J. H. Dozier, ed. by Jocille Hanover Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grade Severity Rating System (GSRS): Users Manual (McLean, VA: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1989), by Brian L. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Improving Surface Transportation Security: A Research and Development Strategy, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board, National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and National Research Council Transportation Research Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Emergencies (book 2 of the Gulick Hygiene series; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1909), by Charlotte V. Gulick, ed. by Luther Halsey Gulick
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Sea Change (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Flora L. Shaw, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)

• Industrial Hygiene Handbook (Albuquerque, NM: Sandia Corp., 1965), by Sandia Laboratories Environmental Health Department 3310, ed. by L. W. Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)

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