Environmental, driver and vehicle risk analysis for freeway work zone crashes

ITE Journal (Institute of Transportation Engineers)

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-30

  Harb, Rami C ^a   Radwan, Essam ^a   Yan, Xuedong ^b   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Pande, Anurag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CRASHWORTHINESS; RISK ANALYSIS;

FREEWAY WORK ZONE CRASHES; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; RESIDENCE CODE; ROADWAY GEOMETRY; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 38949093179     PISSN: 01628178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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