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Bhagwant Persaud publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bhagwant Persaud sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 214 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Bhagwant Persaud D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bhagwant Persaud sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bhagwant Persaud is affiliated with Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a strong emphasis on safety, risk, reliability, and quality. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as civil and structural engineering, control and systems engineering, and transportation.

The main topics covered in Persaud's work include traffic and road safety, traffic control and management, infrastructure maintenance and monitoring, transportation safety and impact analysis, automotive and human injury biomechanics, occupational health and safety research, and safety warnings and signage.

Persaud has authored several recent papers, including:

  • Safety evaluation of centre line, edge line, and dual application rumble strips on Ontario two-lane rural roads, 2022, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
  • Incorporating Speed in a Traffic Conflict Severity Index to Estimate Left Turn Opposed Crashes at Signalized Intersections, 2021, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Evaluation of Protected Left-Turn Phasing and Leading Pedestrian Intervals Effects on Pedestrian Safety, 2021, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Empirical Bayes Before-After Study to Develop Crash Modification Factors and Functions for High Friction Surface Treatments on Curves and Ramps, 2020, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Safety effects of maintenance treatments to improve pavement condition on two-lane rural roads - insights for pavement management, 2020, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Traffic Safety Research
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Persaud collaborates with several co-authors, with notable frequent collaborators including Craig Lyon, Raghavan Srinivasan, Craig Milligan, Taha Saleem, and James A. Bonneson.

In addition to journal articles, Bhagwant Persaud has contributed to multiple book publications through Transportation Research Board eBooks. Some titles include:

  • Improved Prediction Models for Crash Types and Crash Severities (2021)
  • Guidelines for the Development and Application of Crash Modification Factors (2021)
  • Macro-Level Analysis of Safety Planning and Crash Prediction Models: A Guide (2023)
  • Guide to Pedestrian Analysis (2021)
  • Development and Application of Quantitative Macro-Level Safety Prediction Models (2023)
  • Application of Crash Modification Factors for Access Management, Volume 2: Research Overview (2021)
  • Understanding and Communicating Reliability of Crash Prediction Models (2021)
  • Reliability of Crash Prediction Models: A Guide for Quantifying and Improving the Reliability of Model Results (2021)
  • Crash Modification Factors in the Highway Safety Manual: Resources for Evaluation (2023)

Best Publications

  • Safety Effect of Roundabout Conversions in the United States: Empirical Bayes Observational Before-After Study

    Bhagwant N. Persaud;Richard A. Retting;Per E. Garder;Dominique Lord

  • Accident Prediction Models With and Without Trend: Application of the Generalized Estimating Equations Procedure

    Dominique Lord;Bhagwant N. Persaud

  • Empirical Bayes before–after safety studies: Lessons learned from two decades of experience and future directions

    Bhagwant N Persaud;Craig Lyon

  • Exploration of the Breakdown Phenomenon in Freeway Traffic

    Bhagwant Persaud;Sam Yagar;Russel Brownlee

  • A Guide to Developing Quality Crash Modification Factors

    Frank Gross;Bhagwant Naraine Persaud;Craig Lyon

  • Crash reduction following installation of centerline rumble strips on rural two-lane roads.

    Bhagwant N. Persaud;Richard A. Retting;Craig A. Lyon

  • Development of planning level transportation safety tools using Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression.

    Alireza Hadayeghi;Amer S. Shalaby;Bhagwant N. Persaud

  • Development of comprehensive accident models for two-lane rural highways using exposure, geometry, consistency and context variables

    Salvatore Cafiso;Alessandro Di Graziano;Giacomo Di Silvestro;Grazia La Cava

  • Comparison of empirical Bayes and full Bayes approaches for before-after road safety evaluations.

    Bhagwant N. Persaud;Bo Lan;Craig Lyon;Ravi Bhim

  • Empirical Bayes Procedure for Ranking Sites for Safety Investigation by Potential for Safety Improvement

    Bhagwant Persaud;Craig Lyon;Thu Nguyen

  • Macrolevel Accident Prediction Models for Evaluating Safety of Urban Transportation Systems

    Alireza Hadayeghi;Amer S. Shalaby;Bhagwant N. Persaud

  • CRASH AND INJURY REDUCTION FOLLOWING INSTALLATION OF ROUNDABOUTS IN THE UNITED STATES

    Richard A. Retting;Bhagwant N. Persaud;Per E. Garder;Dominique Lord

  • Validation of FHWA Crash Models for Rural Intersections: Lessons Learned

    Juhwan Oh;Craig Lyon;Simon P. Washington;Bhagwant N. Persaud

  • ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODELS FOR FREEWAYS

    Bhagwant Persaud;Leszek Dzbik

  • Catastrophe theory and patterns in 30 second freeway traffic data, implications for incident detection

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  • Calibration and Transferability of Accident Prediction Models for Urban Intersections

    Bhagwant N. Persaud;Dominique Lord;Joseph Palmisano

  • Safety effectiveness of converting signalized intersections to roundabouts

    Frank Gross;Craig Lyon;Bhagwant N. Persaud;Raghavan Srinivasan

  • Validation of a Full Bayes methodology for observational before-after road safety studies and application to evaluation of rural signal conversions.

    Bo Lan;Bhagwant N Persaud;Craig Lyon;Ravi Bhim

  • CONGESTION IDENTIFICATION ASPECTS OF THE MCMASTER INCIDENT DETECTION ALGORITHM

    Bhagwant N Persaud;Fred L. Hall;Lisa M Hall

  • Temporal Transferability and Updating of Zonal Level Accident Prediction Models

    Alireza Hadayeghi;Amer S. Shalaby;Bhagwant N. Persaud;Carl Cheung

  • Roundabouts in the United States

    Lee Rodegerdts;Miranda Blogg;Elizabeth Wemple;Edward Myers

  • Comparison of Empirical Bayes and Full Bayes Approaches for Before-and-After Road Safety Evaluations

    Bhagwant N Persaud;Bo Lan;Craig Lyon;Ravi Bhim

Frequent Co-Authors

Amer Shalaby
Amer Shalaby University of Toronto
Dominique Lord
Dominique Lord Texas A&M University
Ezra Hauer
Ezra Hauer University of Toronto
Simon Washington
Simon Washington Queensland University of Technology
Lily Elefteriadou
Lily Elefteriadou University of Florida
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Mohamed Abdel-Aty
Mohamed Abdel-Aty University of Central Florida
Jaeyoung Lee
Jaeyoung Lee Central South University
Khandker Nurul Habib
Khandker Nurul Habib University of Toronto
Wade D. Cook
Wade D. Cook York University

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