Effect of roadway geometrics and environmental factors on rural freeway accident frequencies

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 371-389

  Shankar, Venkataraman ^a   Mannering, Fred ^a   Barfield, Woodrow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident frequency; Negative binomial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WASHINGTON; WEATHER;

EID: 0029318130     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(94)00078-Z     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Contributions to the theory of accident proneness: I. An optimistic model of the correlation between light and severe accidents
2. Extra-Poisson variation in log-linear models
3. Risk of a road accident in rainy weather
4. Accident “migration” after remedial treatment at accident blackspots
5. Econometric models based on count data Comparison and applications of some estimators and tests
6. Regression-based tests for overdispersion in the Poisson model
7. Models for response data showing extra-Poisson variation
8. Synthesis of safety research related to traffic control and roadway elements
9. Ehrenberg's negative binomial model applied to grocery store trips
10. Analysis of accidents in traffic situations by means of multipro-portional weighted Poisson model
11. Influence of winter road maintenance on traffic accident rates
12. Using count data models in travel cost analysis with aggregate data
13. Predicting wet weather accidents
14. Analysis of the frequency and duration of freeway accidents in Seattle
15. Estimating truck accident rate and involvements using linear and Poisson regression models
16. Modeling the relationship of accidents to miles traveled
17. Exposure-based analysis of motor vehicle accidents
18. Negative binomial and mixed Poisson regression
19. Accident migration—a statistical explanation?
20. A bivariate negative binomial model to explain traffic accident migration
21. A new bivariate negative binomial model for accident frequencies
22. Modeling driver decision making: A review of methodological alternatives
23. Models of travelers' activity choice and home-stay duration: Analysis of functional form and temporal stability
24. Brand loyalty and the decline of American automobile firms
25. A variance components approach to categorical data models with heterogeneous cell population: Analysis of spatial gradients in lung cancer mortality rates in North Carolina counties
26. Development of a collision typology for evaluation of collision avoidance strategies
27. Accident “migration”—or a flight of fancy?
28. The relationship between truck accidents and geometric design of road sections: Poisson versus negative binomial regressions
29. Modeling vehicle accidents and highway geometric design relationships
30. Development of relationships between truck accidents and highway geometric design: Phase I
31. Statistical analysis of road accidents as related to traffic environmental factors
32. Cost and safety effectiveness of highway design elements
33. A method to cope with the random errors of observed accident rates in regression analysis
34. Maximum likelihood estimation of the negative binomial dispersion coefficient
35. Analysis of the effect of roadway geometrics and traffic related elements on the frequency of intersection accidents
36. The known risks we run: The high-way
37. Accident blackspots and the bivariate negative binomial
38. Environmental determinants of traffic accidents: An alternate model
39. A study of precrash factors involved in traffic accidents
40. Driver behavior at horizontal curves: risk compensation and the margin of safety