Safety impact of engineering treatments on undivided rural roads

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 192-200

  Perez I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes method; Engineering treatments; Evaluation; Safety impact; Significance test

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; RURAL ROADS;

EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; ENGINEERING TREATMENTS; SAFETY IMPACT; SIGNIFICANCE TEST; TRAFFIC SIGNING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN;

EID: 27644558692     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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