Assessing crash occurrence on urban freeways by applying a system of interrelated equations

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1953, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Pemmanaboina, Rajashekar ^a   Hsia, Liang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; GEOMETRY; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PAVEMENTS; STREET LIGHTING;

BINARY CATEGORIZATIONS; INTERRELATED EQUATIONS; MACROSCOPIC CRASH FREQUENCY MODELING; VEHICLE CRASHES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 33845307232     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1953-01     Document Type: Review

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