Effects of road geometry and traffic volumes on rural roadway accident rates

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 357-365

  Karlaftis, Matthew G ^a   Golias, Ioannis ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accident rates; Hierarchical tree based regression; Rural roads

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INDIANA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036558127     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(01)00033-1     Document Type: Article

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