Relationships between safety and both congestion and number of lanes on urban freeways

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2083, 2008, Pages 26-39

  Kononov, Jake ^a   Bailey, Barbara ^b   Allery, Bryan K ^a  

^a State of Colorado   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CALIFORNIA; FUNCTION MODELLING; MODELING PROCESS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; NUMBER OF LANES; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TRAFFIC OPERATION; URBAN FREEWAYS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 63849190098     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2083-04     Document Type: Article

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