A classification tree based modeling approach for segment related crashes on multilane highways

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 391-397

  Pande, Anurag ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^b   Das, Abhishek ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial safety; Classification trees; Crash frequency; Mid block segment crashes

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL SAFETY; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION TREE MODEL; CLASSIFICATION TREES; CRASH DATA; CRASH FREQUENCY; CRASH TYPE; EVENT-SPECIFIC; FOUR-GROUP; INTERSECTION CRASHES; MID-BLOCK SEGMENT CRASHES; MODELING APPROACH; MULTI-LANE HIGHWAY; RANDOM SAMPLE; ROAD CRASH; ROADWAY SAFETY; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SEGMENT LENGTHS; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; LOCATION; ROADS AND STREETS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY;

EID: 78149466870     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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