Impact of infrastructure characteristics on road crashes on two-lane highways

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 240-247

  Polus, Abishai ^a   Pollatschek, Moshe A ^a   Farah, Haneen ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crash Rate; Crash Prediction; Infrastructure Characteristics; Rural Highways; Smallest Space Analysis; Two Lane

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGHWAY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODEL; PREDICTION; QUALITY CONTROL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ENGINEERING; HUMANS; SAFETY;

EID: 24144470416     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580590969210     Document Type: Article

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