District variations in road curvature in England and Wales and their association with road-traffic crashes

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1222-1237

  Haynes, Robin ^a   Jones, Andrew ^a   Kennedy, Victoria ^a   Harvey, Ian ^b   Jewell, Tony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c Cambridgeshire Strat Hlth Auth   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; COLLISION; CURVATURE; GIS; ROAD TRANSPORT;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249782299     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38106     Document Type: Article

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