Probabilistic models of freeway safety performance using traffic flow data as predictors

Safety Science

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1306-1333

  Golob, Thomas F ^a   Recker, Will ^b   Pavlis, Yannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Factor analysis; Freeway safety; Loop detector data; Multinomial logit; Statistical analysis; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DETECTORS; SPEED;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; FREEWAY SAFETY; LOOP DETECTOR DATA; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC FLOW;

TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 50849101396     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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