Spatial analysis of weather crash patterns

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 191-202

  Khan, Ghazan ^a   Qin, Xiao ^a   Noyce, David A ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Spatial analysis; Spatial distribution; Weather

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS;

SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER-RELATED CRASHES;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCIDENT; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AUTOCORRELATION; GIS; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 42549151247     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2008)134:5(191)     Document Type: Article

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