Tool with road-level crash prediction for transportation safety planning

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2083, 2008, Pages 16-25

  Tarko, Andrew P ^a   Inerowicz, Mike ^a   Ramos, Jorge ^a   Li, Wei ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CRASH PREDICTION; IN NETWORKS; NETWORK TRAFFIC FLOW; NETWORK TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS; PREDICTION MODELLING; ROAD GEOMETRY; ROAD NETWORK; SAFETY PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

PLANNING;

EID: 63849227654     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2083-03     Document Type: Article

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