Evaluating the role of weaving section characteristics and traffic on crashes in weaving areas

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-113

  Pulugurtha, Srinivas S ^a   Bhatt, Jaimin ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Configuration; Crashes; Freeway; Statistical analysis; Traffic; Weaving section

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEVADA; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 76449096102     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580903370039     Document Type: Article

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