Investigating the effect of light truck vehicle percentages on head-on fatal traffic crashes

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 429-437

  Abdelwahab, Hassan ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^b  

^a Morley and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LIGHT TRUCK VEHICLES (LTVS); MINIVANS;

TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

CAR OWNERSHIP; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242709690     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2004)130:4(429)     Document Type: Article

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