Estimating the relationship between accident frequency and homogeneous and inhomogeneous traffic flows

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 985-992

  Hiselius, Lena Winslott ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accident prediction models; Hourly traffic flow; Negative Binomial; Poisson; Road accidents

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODELS; ACCIDENT RATES; HOURLY TRAFFIC FLOW; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RURAL ROADS; SAFETY FACTOR; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SWEDEN;

EID: 4344692541     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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