Benchmarking road safety: Lessons to learn from a data envelopment analysis

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 174-182

  Hermans, Elke ^a   Brijs, Tom ^a   Wets, Geert ^a   Vanhoof, Koen ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Data envelopment analysis; Performance indicator; Priorities; Road safety; Target setting

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MODAL ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; TARGETS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BENCHMARK; PERFORMANCE INDICATOR; PRIORITIES; ROAD SAFETY; TARGET SETTING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CAR DRIVING; HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BELGIUM; BENCHMARKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAFETY;

EID: 57849109803     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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