Effect of geometric design consistency on road safety

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 218-227

  Ng, Joanne C W ^a   Sayed, Tarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accident prediction models; Geometric design consistency; Quantification; Road safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GEOMETRIC DESIGNS; ROAD SAFETY; RURAL HIGHWAYS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 3042719542     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l03-090     Document Type: Article

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