Evaluation of accident prediction for rural highways

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 647-651

  Hildebrand, Eric ^a   Robichaud, Karen ^a,b   Ye, Hong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b Opus International Consultants (Canada) Ltd   (Canada)

^c Scheffer Andrew Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accident prediction; Accident rate; Benefit cost analysis; Collision rate; Modeling; Rural highways

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT PREDICTION; ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODELS; ACCIDENT RATES; ACCIDENT REDUCTION; ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS; HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS; HIGHWAY SECTIONS; MODEL OUTPUTS; PREDICTIVE VARIABLES; RURAL HIGHWAYS;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT; COLLISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODELING; PREDICTION; RURAL TRANSPORT;

EID: 46749121467     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L08-008     Document Type: Article

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