Uncertainty assessment of the road safety index

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1220-1228

  Hermans, Elke ^a   Van den Bossche, Filip ^b   Wets, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Campus Parnas   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Indicators; Ranking; Road safety index; Sensitivity; Uncertainty; Weighting

Indexed keywords

INDICATORS; RANKING; ROAD SAFETY INDEX; SENSITIVITY; UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHTING;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 63749102650     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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