Horizontal curve accident modification factor with consideration of driveway density on rural four-lane highways in Texas

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 827-835

  Fitzpatrick, Kay ^a   Lord, Dominique ^b   Park, Byung Jung ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Roads; Statistical analysis.; Traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFICS; BASE MODELS; CENTERLINES; DEGREE OF CURVES; HORIZONTAL CURVES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MODIFICATION FACTORS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; ROADS; SEGMENT LENGTHS;

ACCIDENTS; DRIVEWAYS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CURVES (ROAD);

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROAD TRANSPORT; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958087262     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000145     Document Type: Article

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