Safety evaluation of multilane arterials in Florida

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 777-788

  Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Devarasetty, Prem Chand ^a   Pande, Anurag ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes; Multilane arterials; Resurfacing; Safety evaluation; Safety performance function; Severe crashes

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL BAYES; MULTILANE ARTERIALS; RESURFACING; SAFETY EVALUATION; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; SEVERE CRASHES;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PAVEMENTS; RIDING QUALITIES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SWITCHING FUNCTIONS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BUILDING MATERIAL; CAR; CAR DRIVING; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FLORIDA; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67349266627     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.03.015     Document Type: Article

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