Investigation of highway work zone crashes: What we know and what we don't know

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1529, 1996, Pages 54-62

  Wang, Jun ^a   Hughes, Warren E ^b   Council, Forrest M ^c   Paniati, Jeffrey F ^d  

^a LENDIS Corporation   (United States)

^b Bellomo McGee Inc ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Federal Highway Administration Virginia Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

HIGHWAY SAFETY INFORMATION SYSTEM; WORK ZONE;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0030232003     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1529-07     Document Type: Article

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