Use of cultural consensus analysis to evaluate expert feedback of median safety

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1458-1467

  Kim, Tae Gyu ^a   Donnell, Eric T ^b   Lee, Dongmin ^c  

^a Transportation Planning Branch   (United States)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cross median crash; Cultural consensus analysis; Delphi survey; Dimensional scaling; Median safety

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC (ADT); COMMON KNOWLEDGE; CRASH HISTORY; DELPHI METHODS; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERT FEEDBACK; FIELD STUDIES; GEOMETRIC FACTORS; HEAVY VEHICLES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SURVEY DATA;

SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DELPHI STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY;

EID: 46349087828     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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