Analysis of injury and fatal crashes in highway construction zones

Construction Research Congress 2010: Innovation for Reshaping Construction Practice - Proceedings of the 2010 Construction Research Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 568-577

  Elghamrawy, Tarek ^a   El Rayes, Khaled ^a   Liu, Liang ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; FATAL CRASHES; HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION; HIGHWAY CRASHES; ILLINOIS; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; SAFETY MEASURES; WORK ZONE CRASHES;

DATA REDUCTION; HIGHWAY PLANNING; RESEARCH;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 77956337113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41109(373)57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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