Calibrating a real-time traffic crash-prediction model using archived weather and ITS traffic data

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 167-174

  Abdel Aty, Mohamed A ^a   Pemmanaboina, Rajashekar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GMB Engineers and Planners Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS); Crash prediction; Intelligent transportation system (ITS) data; Logistic regression (LR); Matched case control LR; Rain index

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROXIMITY INDICATORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (ATMS); CRASH PREDICTIONS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (ITS) DATA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION (LR); MATCHED CASE-CONTROL LR; RAIN INDEXES;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 33746600771     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2006.874710     Document Type: Article

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