Highway work zone risk factors and their impact on crash severity

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 694-701

  Li, Yingfeng ^a   Bai, Yong ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction sites; Errors; Highway and road construction; Human factors; Logistics; Risk management; Safety; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION SITES; CRASH SEVERITY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FATAL CRASHES; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIGHWAY AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION; HIGHWAY WORK ZONES; HUMAN FACTORS; INJURY CRASHES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; RISK FACTORS; ROAD CONDITION; SAFETY; SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES; SAFETY DEFICIENCIES; SCREENING PROCESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ENGINEER; WORK ZONES;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERS; ERRORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LOGISTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESEARCH; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION;

HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; ZONING SYSTEM;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349540737     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000055     Document Type: Article

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