Tobit analysis of vehicle accident rates on interstate highways

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 768-775

  Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^a   Tarko, Andrew P ^a   Mannering, Fred L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident rates; Pavement condition; Roadway geometrics; Tobit regression

Indexed keywords

GROUND VEHICLES; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACCIDENT RATES; ROADWAY GEOMETRICS; TOBIT REGRESSION;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CAR; CAR DRIVING; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; HUMANS; INDIANA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40149107148     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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