Traffic safety assessment and development of predictive models for accidents on rural roads in Egypt

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-163

  Abbas, Khaled A ^a,b  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Transp Plng Dept   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Accident models; Assessment; Egypt; Rural roads; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT CAUSES; BONFERRONI TESTS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGYPT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSALITY; EGYPT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0344034792     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(02)00145-8     Document Type: Article

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