Injury, fatal, and property damage accident models for highway corridors

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1665, 1999, Pages 84-92

  Khan, Sarosh ^a   Shanmugam, Ramalingam ^b   Hoeschen, Brian ^a  

^a The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HIGHWAY CORRIDORS; POISSON REGRESSION;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0033336018     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1665-12     Document Type: Article

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