TRB 12-0998 1 2 3 Assessment of the Interaction between Crash Occurrence, Mountainous 4 Freeway Geometry, Real-Time Weather and AVI Traffic Data 5 6 7 8 Mohamed Ahmed* 9 Mohamed Abdel-Aty 10 Rongjie Yu 11 Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering 12 University of Central Florida 13 Orlando, Florida 32816-2450 14 (407) 823-4552 15 mahmed@knights.ucf.edu 16 17 * Corresponding Author 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 July 2011 38 39 40 41 Submitted for presentation and possible publication in the TRB 2012 Annual Meeting 42 Word count: 5,920 words + 3 tables + 3 figures = 7,420 equivalent words 43 44