Distractions and motor vehicle accidents: Data mining application on fatality analysis reporting system (FARS) data files

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1188-1205

  Tseng, Wen Shuan ^a   Nguyen, Hang ^a   Liebowitz, Jay ^a   Agresti, William ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Data collection; Road vehicles

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CRASHWORTHINESS; DATA MINING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

DATA COLLECTION; MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS; ROAD VEHICLES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 28644451085     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570510633257     Document Type: Article

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