Safety effects of the separation distances between driveway exits and downstream U-turn locations

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 760-767

  Liu, Pan ^a   Lu, Jian John ^a   Chen, Hongyun ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Access management; Negative binomial model; Proportionality test; Separation distance; U turn

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA ACQUISITION; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACCESS MANAGEMENT; SEPARATION DISTANCE;

DRIVEWAYS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAR; CAR DRIVING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 40149087011     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.09.011     Document Type: Article

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