Assessing the role of pavement macrotexture in preventing crashes on highways

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-103

  Pulugurtha, Srinivas S ^a   Kusam, Prasanna R ^a   Patel, Kuvleshay J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Braking performance; Crashes; Macrotexture; Pavement; Regression; Significance; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NORTH CAROLINA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 76549107959     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580903383933     Document Type: Article

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