Intersection accident estimation: The role of intersection location and non-collision flows

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 505-517

  Turner, Shane ^a   Nicholson, Alan ^b  

^a Beca   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accident estimation; Generalised linear models; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEW ZEALAND;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; INTERSECTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COVARIATE ANALYSIS; INTERSECTION LOCATION; NON COLLISION FLOW;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0032105536     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(97)00095-X     Document Type: Article

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