Does prior knowledge of safety effect help to predict how effective a measure will be?

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 339-347

  Elvik, Rune ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Meta analysis; Prediction; Safety measure; Testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY;

EFFECTS; EVALUATION; FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; PERFORMANCE; ROADS AND STREETS;

META ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; ROAD LIGHTING; ROAD SAFETY; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAFFIC SEPARATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 0030131679     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(95)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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