How to select the appropriate safety measurement to identify a hotspot

ICCTP 2010: Integrated Transportation Systems: Green, Intelligent, Reliable - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals

Volumn 382, Issue , 2010, Pages 1047-1057

  Cheng, Wen ^a   Wang, Xuesong ^b   Anderson, Kekoa ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Highways and roads; Traffic safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT DATA; CRASH RATE; EMPIRICAL COMPARISON; HAZARDOUS LOCATION; HIGHWAYS AND ROADS; HOT SPOT; RESEARCH EFFORTS; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD SECTION; SAFETY MEASUREMENTS; SIMULATED DATA; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 78049506008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41127(382)112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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