Development of crash-severity-index models for the measurement of work zone risk levels

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1724-1731

  Li, Yingfeng ^a,b   Bai, Yong ^a  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash; Highway; Risk; Safety; Work zone

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; FOOD PROCESSING; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATERIALS HANDLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

CHALLENGING TASK; CRASH; CRASH DATA; CRASH SEVERITY; HIGHWAY; HIGHWAY WORK ZONES; INDEX MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NUMERICAL VALUES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; RISK LEVELS; SAFETY; SAFETY PROBLEMS; THREE-STEP APPROACH; TRAFFIC ENGINEERS; TRAFFIC FLOWING; WORK ZONE; WORK ZONE SAFETY; WORK ZONES;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 50149103383     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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