Impact of pavement condition on rural road accidents

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 523-531

  Al Masaeid, Hashem R ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Pavement condition; Roughness; Traffic accident rates

Indexed keywords

PAVEMENT CONDITIONS; ROAD ACCIDENT; RURAL AREA;

EID: 0031410468     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l97-009     Document Type: Article

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