Collective responsibility for freeway rear-ending accidents?. An application of probabilistic causal models

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 728-736

  Davis, Gary A ^a   Swenson, Tait ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Car following; Causal inference; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Rear end crash

Indexed keywords

BRAKING; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

CAR-FOLLOWING; CAUSAL INFERENCE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; REAR-END CRASH;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CAUSALITY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33646363767     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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