Shaheed et al. 1 An Application of the Empirical Bayes Method for Identifying Winter 1 Weather Crash Hot Spots 2 3 Mohammad Saad Shaheed (Corresponding author) 4 Transportation Engineer Specialist 5 Arizona Department of Transportation 6 1615 West Jackson Street 7 Phoenix, Arizona 85002 8 Phone: 602-712-8382 9 E-mail: mshaheed@iastate.edu 10 11 Konstantina Gkritza 12 Associate Professor 13 Lyles School of Civil Engineering, G167B 14 Purdue University 15 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 16 Phone: 765-494-4597 17 E-mail: nadia@purdue.edu 18 19 Shauna L. Hallmark 20 Professor 21 Director, Institute for Transportation 22 Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering 23 Iowa State University 24 Ames, Iowa 50011 25 Phone: 515-294-8103 26 E-mail: shallmar@iastate.edu 27 28 Keith K. Knapp 29 Director 30 Iowa Local Technical Assistance Program 31 Institute for Transportation 32 Iowa State University 33 Ames, Iowa 50010 34 Phone: 515-294-8817 35 E-mail: kknapp@iastate.edu 36 37 Submission Date: August 1, 2014 38 Number of Words in Text: 5,755 39 Number of Figures: 1 40 Number of Tables: 5 41 Total Equivalent Number of Words: 7,255 42 43 Submitted for possible presentation at the 94 th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research 44 Board and publication in the Journal of Transportation Research Board: Transportation 45 Research Record. 46 47