Quantifying safety benefit of winter road maintenance: Accident frequency modeling

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1878-1887

  Usman, Taimur ^a   Fu, Liping ^a   Miranda Moreno, Luis F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accident frequency models; Winter road maintenance

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; MAINTENANCE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SNOW; STORMS; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCIDENT FREQUENCY; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; ROAD SURFACE CONDITION; SURROGATE MEASURES; WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE;

ROADS AND STREETS;

SNOW;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; SAFETY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ONTARIO; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SEASONS; SNOW;

EID: 78049371681     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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