New consistency model for rural highways and its relationship to safety

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 286-293

  Polus, Abishai ^a   Mattar Habib, Caroline ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consistency; Highway safety; Highways; Models; Rural areas

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RURAL ROADS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

RURAL HIGHWAYS; TWO LANE HIGHWAY SECTIONS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

ROAD TRANSPORT; RURAL TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442534045     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2004)130:3(286)     Document Type: Article

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