What is the role of multiple secondary incidents in traffic operations?

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 986-997

  Zhang, Hongbing ^a   Khattak, Asad ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Statistics; Traffic accidents; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; HAMPTON; HEAVY TRAFFICS; INCIDENT DATA; KEY FACTORS; LANE BLOCKAGE; ORDINAL REGRESSION; ORDINAL SCALE; ROADWAY GEOMETRY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC INCIDENTS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC OPERATION; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; VIRGINIA;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MOTORWAY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 77957944639     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000164     Document Type: Article

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