Safety performance functions with measurement errors in traffic volume

Safety Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1339-1344

  El Basyouny, Karim ^a   Sayed, Tarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Full Bayes estimation; Generalized link; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Measurement error; Poisson gamma hierarchy

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CHAINS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEHICLES;

FULL BAYES ESTIMATIONS; GENERALIZED LINK; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; POISSON-GAMMA HIERARCHIES; ROAD SEGMENTS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; UNCERTAINTY;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 77956232459     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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