Voluntary killer: Multivariate highway geometric factors contributing to crashes and collisions in China's mountainous regions

Technics Technologies Education Management

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 531-543

  Wang, Yong Gang ^a   Chen, Kuan Min ^a   Hu, Li Wei ^b   Pei, Yu Long ^c  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Crash occurrence; Cross section; Geometric factor; Horizontal alignment; Mountainous highway; Vertical alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958091564     PISSN: 18401503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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