A multiple criteria decision-making approach for prioritizing accident hotspots in the absence of crash data

Transport Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-113

  Pirdavani, Ali ^a   Brijs, Tom ^a   Wets, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; DELPHI ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 71149084422     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441640903279345     Document Type: Article

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