Evaluation of safety ratings of roads based on frontal crashes with known crash pulse and injury outcome

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-278

  Stigson, H ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Change of velocity; Event data recorder; Road safety; Safety performance indicators

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; SAFETY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; HUMANS; SAFETY; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 69149087098     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580902864107     Document Type: Article

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