Development of comprehensive accident models for two-lane rural highways using exposure, geometry, consistency and context variables

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1072-1079

  Cafiso, Salvatore ^a   Di Graziano, Alessandro ^a   Di Silvestro, Giacomo ^a   La Cava, Grazia ^a   Persaud, Bhagwant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accident modeling; Empirical Bayes; Local rural roads; Road safety; Safety performance function

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT MODELS; BASE MODELS; BAYESIAN; CANDIDATE MODELS; DATA COLLECTION; DESIGN APPLICATIONS; EMPIRICAL BAYES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GOODNESS-OF-FIT STATISTICS; GPS SURVEY; HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT; LINEAR MODELING; MODIFICATION FACTORS; PAPER DOCUMENTS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; ROAD SAFETY; RURAL HIGHWAYS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SAFETY IMPROVEMENT; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; SITES WITH PROMISE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TWO-LANE; TWO-LANE ROADS; VARIABLE MODEL;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA ACQUISITION; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; RURAL ROADS;

SURVEYS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77955315853     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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