Scenario analysis of freight vehicle accident risks in Taiwan

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 683-690

  Tsai, Ming Chih ^a   Su, Chien Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accident scenario; Freight vehicles; GLIM; Quantitative risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; GROUND VEHICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY FACTOR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCIDENT SCENARIO; FREIGHT VEHICLES; GENERALIZED LINEAR INTERACTIVE MODELS (GLIM); QUANTITATIVE RISK ANALYSIS (QRA);

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN;

EID: 1942440970     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2003.05.001     Document Type: Article

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