Combining road safety information in a performance index

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1337-1344

  Hermans, Elke ^a   Van den Bossche, Filip ^b   Wets, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Campus Parnas   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Indicators; Performance index; Road safety; Weighting methods

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECISION THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTITASKING; ROADS AND STREETS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY; BUDGET ALLOCATION; CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES; DATA ENVELOPMENT; ELSEVIER (CO); EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS (FA); INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LONG TIME; PERFORMANCE INDEX (PI); ROAD SAFETY; ROAD SAFETY INDEX (RSI); TRAFFIC FATALITIES; WEIGHTING METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EUROPE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALGORITHMS; EUROPE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 46149120560     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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