# Fred Mannering

Fred Mannering is an American scientist/engineer who is most known for the development and application of statistical and econometric methods to study highway safety, economics, travel behavior, and a variety of engineering-related problems.

## Early life and education

Mannering was born in 1954 (November) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from suburban Pittsburgh's South Fayette High School, received his B.S. degree in Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, M.S. degree from Purdue University, and Ph.D. in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his doctoral committee consisted of Clifford Winston (advisor), Daniel McFadden (Nobel Prize laureate in Economics in 2000) and Ann Fetter Friedlaender.

## Career

Mannering is currently a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (with a courtesy appointment in Economics) and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. He previously held academic positions as Head of Civil Engineering and later as the Charles Pankow Professor at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue University, he was a Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington and an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University.
Mannering has received numerous awards in his discipline. In 2005 he won the Wilbur S. Smith Award, in 2009 the James Laurie Prize, and in 2010 the Arthur M. Wellington Prize for his papers and work in highway safety (all three awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers). He received the Murphy Teaching Award, Purdue University's highest undergraduate teaching honor, in 2013. In 2016, he was named by the Eno Foundation as one of the Top 10 Transportation Thought Leaders in Academia and in 2019, his 1996 paper on highway accident frequency was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of four Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems papers that have been instrumental in moving civil engineering forward. In 2020, Mannering was recognized as the most highly-cited author (highest total citations and citations per paper) in the 50-year history of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention and in 2021 he received the Council of University Transportation Centers (HNTB-CUTC) Lifetime Achievement Award. For six consecutive years (2019 to 2024 inclusive), Mannering was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher on Clarivate's annual list of the world's most influential researchers, a list of researchers recognized for writing multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for research field and publication year in Web of Science, as well as evidence of community-wide recognition from an international and wide-ranging network of citing authors.

## Research

Mannering is known for his work in highway safety, statistics, and econometrics. He has published extensively with over 150 journal articles. Some of his most impactful work includes research on highway accident frequency and injury severity, the effects of unobserved heterogeneity in highway safety analysis, and his work on temporal instability in the analysis of highway accident data. He has contributed to the advancement of science and engineering through his teaching and as an author of two widely adopted textbooks: Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis and Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis. Mannering is the founding Editor and Chief Advisory Editor of the journal Analytic Methods in Accident Research (having served as Editor-in-Chief from 2013 to 2024). He is also past Editor-in-Chief (2004 to 2012) and current Distinguished Editorial Board Member of the journal Transportation Research Part B - Methodological.

## Music/Discography

Mannering was a founding member and the lead guitarist in the Seattle Heavy Metal band Vulgaris from 1993 to 1996. The band's self-titled debut album Vulgaris was released in 1994.

## Books

* Mannering, Fred L.; Washburn, Scott S. (2020). Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-72319-6.
* Washington, Simon; Karlaftis, Matthew; Mannering, Fred; Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis (2020). Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis. doi:10.1201/9780429244018. ISBN 978-0-429-24401-8.

## Selected and most cited publications

* Mannering, Fred; Bhat, Chandra R.; Shankar, Venky; Abdel-Aty, Mohamed (March 2020). "Big data, traditional data and the tradeoffs between prediction and causality in highway-safety analysis". Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 25: 100113. doi:10.1016/j.amar.2020.100113.
* Mannering, Fred (March 2018). "Temporal instability and the analysis of highway accident data". Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 17: 1–13. doi:10.1016/j.amar.2017.10.002.
* Mannering, Fred L.; Shankar, Venky; Bhat, Chandra R. (September 2016). "Unobserved heterogeneity and the statistical analysis of highway accident data". Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 11: 1–16. doi:10.1016/j.amar.2016.04.001.
* Mannering, Fred L.; Bhat, Chandra R. (January 2014). "Analytic methods in accident research: Methodological frontier and future directions". Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 1: 1–22. doi:10.1016/j.amar.2013.09.001.
* Savolainen, Peter T.; Mannering, Fred L.; Lord, Dominique; Quddus, Mohammed A. (September 2011). "The statistical analysis of highway crash-injury severities: A review and assessment of methodological alternatives". Accident Analysis & Prevention. 43 (5): 1666–1676. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2011.03.025. PMID 21658493.
* Lord, Dominique; Mannering, Fred (June 2010). "The statistical analysis of crash-frequency data: A review and assessment of methodological alternatives". Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 44 (5): 291–305. Bibcode:2010TRPA...44..291L. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2010.02.001.
* Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch.; Mannering, Fred L. (January 2009). "A note on modeling vehicle accident frequencies with random-parameters count models". Accident Analysis & Prevention. 41 (1): 153–159. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2008.10.005. PMID 19114150.
* Milton, John C.; Shankar, Venky N.; Mannering, Fred L. (January 2008). "Highway accident severities and the mixed logit model: An exploratory empirical analysis". Accident Analysis & Prevention. 40 (1): 260–266. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2007.06.006. PMID 18215557.
* Poch, Mark; Mannering, Fred (March 1996). "Negative Binomial Analysis of Intersection-Accident Frequencies". Journal of Transportation Engineering. 122 (2): 105–113. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(1996)122:2(105).
* Mannering, Fred; Winston, Clifford (1985). "A Dynamic Empirical Analysis of Household Vehicle Ownership and Utilization". The RAND Journal of Economics. 16 (2): 215–236. JSTOR 2555411.
* Mannering, Fred (May 1983). "An econometric analysis of vehicle use in multivehicle households". Transportation Research Part A: General. 17 (3): 183-189. doi.org/10.1016/0191-2607(83)90040-7.