Safety effects of winter weather: The state of knowledge and remaining challenges

Transport Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 677-699

  Strong, Christopher K ^a   Zhirui, Ye ^b   Shi, Xianming ^b  

^a Transportation Department   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; FRICTION; PAVEMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; WEATHER; WINTER;

EID: 78149386016     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441640903414470     Document Type: Article

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