Vehicle time spent in following new exposure measure for predicting same-direction collisions on two-lane rural roads

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2083, 2008, Pages 162-169

  Zhang, Chen ^a   Ivan, John N ^b   Ravishanker, Nalini ^b  

^a Urbitran Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; RURAL ROADS;

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CRASH PREDICTION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL; PERCENT TIME SPENT FOLLOWING; PREDICTION MODELLING; REAR-END COLLISIONS; TIME-SPENT; TWO-LANE;

VEHICLES;

EID: 63849297271     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2083-19     Document Type: Article

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