Towards establishing an overall safety-based geometric design consistency measure

Proceedings, Annual Conference - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Volumn 2002, Issue , 2002, Pages 2481-2490

  Awatta, M ^a   Hassan, Y ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DECISION THEORY; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

GEOMETRIC DESIGN; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 33645708877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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