Motor vehicle fuel efficiency and traffic fatalities

Energy Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1-22

  Noland, Robert B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FUEL EFFICIENCY; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; TRAFFIC FATALITIES; VEHICLE FLEET;

FUEL ECONOMY;

EID: 14044264166     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol25-No4-1     Document Type: Article

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