Relationships between urban planning variables and traffic crashes in Damascus

Road and Transport Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 63-73

  Al Masaeid, Hashem R ^a   Suleiman, Ghassan ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AIR QUALITY; APARTMENT HOUSES; ENGINEERS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; ZONING;

INTERSECTION DENSITY; POPULATION DENSITY; STREET NETWORKS; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 13444278895     PISSN: 10375783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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