Safety performance of freeway sections and relation to length of speed-change lanes

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 531-541

  Sarhan, M ^a   Hassan, Y ^a   Abd El Halim, A O ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceleration lanes; Collision modelling; Deceleration lanes; Freeway safety; Merge and diverge areas

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROCESSING; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MERGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEED; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

COLLISION FREQUENCIES; GEOMETRIC FEATURES; INTENSE (CO); KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; LITTLE RESEARCH; NEGATIVE BINOMIALS; OPERATING SPEEDS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; REGRESSION (R2); SAFETY PERFORMANCES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT MODELS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; GEOMETRY; MODELING; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 47049106133     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L07-135     Document Type: Article

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