Empirical evaluation of alternative approaches in identifying crash hot spots

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2103, 2009, Pages 32-41

  Huang, Helai ^a   Chin, Hoong Chor ^b   Haque, Mazharul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

BAYES METHOD; CRASH DATA; EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; HOT SPOT IDENTIFICATION; HOTSPOTS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MODEL-BASED OPC; PRIOR INFORMATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 76349096452     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2103-05     Document Type: Article

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