Relationship between crash rate and hourly traffic flow on interurban motorways

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 619-629

  Martin, Jean Louis ^a  

^a Institut National de Recherche Sur Les Transports Et Leur Securitie   (France)

Author keywords

Hourly traffic flow; Incidence rate; Interurban motorway; Modeling; Negative binomial regression; Relationship; Road accident; Severity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FRANCE; HUMAN; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FRANCE; HUMANS;

EID: 0036707714     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(01)00061-6     Document Type: Article

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