Comparison of methodology approach to identify causal factors of accident severity

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2083, 2008, Pages 190-198

  Wong, Jinn Tsai ^a   Chung, Yi Shih ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

ACCIDENT DATA; ACCIDENT SEVERITY; COMPLETE INFORMATION; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION LOGISTICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; METHODOLOGY APPROACHES; VEHICLE ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 64149130080     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2083-22     Document Type: Article

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