Identifying hazardous road locations: Hot spots versus hot zones

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5730 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 288-300

  Moons, Elke ^a   Brijs, Tom ^a   Wets, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hot spot analysis; Hot zone; Moran index; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BELGIUM; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; EXTENDED ANALYSIS; HAZARDOUS LOCATION; HAZARDOUS ROAD LOCATIONS; HOT SPOT; HOT ZONE; MORAN INDEX; ONE STEP; POLICY MAKERS; ROAD NETWORK; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAFFIC SAFETY PROBLEMS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DECISION MAKING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 76649105063     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10649-1_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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